I for one thought the the ending could've been better and should've been considering how popular and big ME was it.l deserved something great not exceptional. So as far as the ending Bioware gave us i felt that the extended cut ending should've at least been the original ending since it may not have been what fans wanted but at least it was complete and gave us more answers unlike the games original ending that felt incomplete and left people with more questions then answers and I personally would've been ok not satisfied but ok had the extended cut been the original ending. Also I don't mind open endings either but not when its the final game of a series I don't agree or feel that an open ending is the way to go or even right. I'm not surprised at all the backlash about mass effect 3 because I for one thought it got the dragon age 2 treatment which lately has been trend for Bioware since they got with EA. I knew it wouldn't be the mass effect game fans wanted and loved to play but hoped i was wrong. I also agree that the game was striped down of lot of the simple things that made it an RPG and an enjoyable one to and ME3 was made to attract more of the shooter crowd instead since thats where the money is at and could see how it was more linear with less choices and no matter what you decided the outcome was the same with the only difference being how you reached that outcome but in the end the outcome remained the same. You could see that ME3 plays and acts more like a shooter with its new interface and new multiplayer which I hate to say this because I'm a fan of their new interface and multiplayer but wasn't happy with the loss and lack of RPG elements in the game.
I'm not surprised though since this also happened with their dragon age series too and when you really thing about it seems like Bioware games are being shipped out much faster and lighter on content with a focus on EA/Bioware making as much money off the DLC, IOS games, multiplayer, and etc. So when I saw a DLC for sale on day one of the games release I had a feeling this was gonna be just like what happened with the dragon age series and then when i saw that the multiplayer was being tied in to the campaign with packs that you can purchase I knew this wasn't gonna be the mass effect game that fans of the original mass effect games that won RPG game of the year in 2007 wanted since it looked more like it was gonna be closer to what I mentioned above. But what really showed me that ME3 wasn't as good as it should've been and the rest of what I said was when I played ME3 and saw that I enjoyed the DLC and its multiplayer more then the actual game and think about this when you enjoy something that is made in less time then a whole game which took alot longer to make you know there's a problem and this shouldn't be the case. Hey I'm still a mass effect fan and bioware fan but I really hope what I said is wrong and I really hope that bioware delivers like they have in the past on their next titles they develop but only time will tell.