I finished Mass Effect 3 and I LOVED it , but (Huge Spoilers)

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Darc Requiem said:

yo_john117 said:

I addressed that up above with the lying part. There's a reason I don't pay too much attention to what devs say. 

But I guess if I would have listened and believed what they said about ME3 then I wouldn't be a very happy camper either. But I mean come on...that's like believing in fairy tales!

Bioware has an official forum and they have up, until ME3,  been pretty accurate in what they say and what occurs in their games. That's the reason the for the the reaction to the ending being as severe as it is.

I've said this before. So I won't go into too much detail agian unless you want to. (I personally thought the 3rd games story was bleh, so I didn't much care about the ending). But, from a mechanical point they didn't really lie, just underwhelmed.

there's 7 or 8 variations of endings depending on certain actions at the end (for instance if your readiness level was below 1750, earth is destroyed no matter what). And your readiness-level which is dependant upon actions in previous games (which can be completely offset by like 1 hour of mulitplayer). This was probably the laziest way to implement this.