Draech said:
I'm tempted to just write "Here we go again," and leave it at that, but it seems I have enough energy to defend my position for a whort while longer. So, here we go again.
While them banking on making money with the Multiplayer is a good point, and perhaps a tick in favour of this rumour being slightly true, I am not holding my breath. Every other comment from Bioware/EA so far has amounted them burying their head in the sand and completely ignoring the massive outrage from their fans and basically stating that they thought the ending was perfectly fine, or even better, that they -meant- it to cause such outrage.
Now to your next point, I would qualify this ending as a repair because in mine and countless others eyes, the ending to this game is broken and ought to be fixed. This has nothing to do with getting more or less than promised, and certainly not a thing to do with the Collector's Edition, so I'm not sure where that came from, or even anything to with the other 29 hours and 50 minutes of gameplay. This has everything to do with them providing such a stellar experience for those 29 hours, and then in a single scene, throwing every damn choice, action, or plot point out the window and strapping on some backward ass God logic that is so messed up and out of place that it doesn't even seem like it's from the same game.
The three 'choices' at the end amount to pretty much nothing more than what colour explosion would you like, and in a game series that has always been about choices and consquence there-of, to have an ending that has absolutley nothing to with anything from the entire rest of the series is entirely and utterly stupid. Casey Hudson said he wanted the endings as they are to be 'unforgettable,' and he's certainly accomplished that. He's actually managed to top Lost and The Sopranos for the most dissapointing ending to an epic series in my list.
So yes, this ending -is- broken and needs to be repaired. At this point I would actually accept the contrived reboot of "it was all a dream/some kind of indoctrination test" as they would provide a phenominally more satisfying conclusion than "choose a colour and watch some incredibly vague cutscene that doesn't tell you a damn thing."