Patrick Moran said: “A significant part of the team did not want to see such a final of Mass Effect 3. I remember reading the script and was upset because it seemed to me that all the decisions I made no longer mattered. I sent an email in an attempt to challenge the ending but never got a response. The Mass Effect team was run like a [US] Navy ship, with strict command lines, areas of responsibility, and department heads who had waited for years to be promoted. You followed orders and tried not to be too arrogant or annoying. The Dragon Age team was more like a pirate ship in this regard. “

Jay Turner, the writer of the second and third parts of Mass Effect, said in a similar vein: “When I played the game, I was quite happy with the ending as the result of the entire trilogy. But after I repeated the walkthrough and realized that my decisions only changed the color of the explosion in the last splash screen, I was very disappointed. “