Okay, so I beat the game, in a bit of a hurry before all the internet traffic spoiled the ending for me...and I didn't get why people were so angry until I read up on it afterwards. Now I can understand being *annoyed*, but honestly the level this has grown to feels a bit out of hand to me.
Would I have liked more closure, yes. Do I want any drastic, sweeping changes? No. Honestly if they tack on a few screens of text that fill me in a bit better on who lives/dies or what some of my choices influenced, that would be neat.
That being said, this feels like a bit of "stop and smell the roses" to me. Other than the fact that it's simply amazing that in such a large universe I would run in to people I know *all the time*, I found my first trip through the game to be enjoyable and rewarding. My char had come all the way through ME1 and 2, without having played any of the DLC from 2. Seeing the influence this import had on characters whatnot was amazing to me, and I yelled at my screen a few times. The game *was* the ending, in my mind. And at least there wasn't a crummy, tacked on boss fight this time.
Also, my understanding from what I've seen is there might be clarification, but not a retcon (thankfully.) The SPOILER ALERT post ending screen even tells you that you can continue Shep's "Legend", and drops you at a point before the final assault takes place. DLC will most likely be crammed into the middle of the story.
All this crap that nobody cares about being said, I think I would have been happy if the game ended with MORE SPOILER ALERT/WISHFUL THINKING the defeat of Cerberus/TIM and led into a kickass multiplayer title based around fighting the Reapers.
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