How will game 'journalists' spin Casey Hudson's return to BW?

You are speculating, of course... all really useless predictions actually.  I'm not going to start predicting such things as what year we'll see another Mass Effect... I don't have a crystal ball and I sincerely doubt you have one either.

It may just boil down to Aaryn not wanting to decide on things like whether or not to go forward with DLC just prior to leaving and Casey just wanting some time to catch up before deciding on such things.  We may see some more definite announcements from Casey after he's been in the job a couple weeks.  We'll just have to wait to see what happens.

Oh sorry I misunderstood. In that case I agree that's not what happened.

I haven't heard anyone make that argument actually. Rightly or wrongly Hudson and Walters get all the blame. If EA set a deadline that's their prerogative. Casey and Mac gave us a poorly executed ending that made little narrative sense.

I love the defeatism and sweet sweet cynicism in your topic title. It's so tangible I can almost cut it with a knife and spread it on a piece of toast. I bet it tastes nectary.

Sounds like the people of the Milky Way rebuilt in record time... plothole much?
That would prove difficult as the 360 I played ME3 on as well as the game, has long since been sold in order to jump into PC gaming.

Erhm... yeah? What point are you making? Besides ME3 demolished everything even before the *retch* endings.

And it's part of their job to produce stuff that people like, so if they fail in that regard, they fairly get called out on it. 

It's with the last 10% or so.

Sure, except people tend to like too many different things for that to be an acceptable excuse.  I also don't think people are in any way allowed to demand what was created be changed either, and that is what is thrown around liberally by fanbases when it comes to games it seems. That is why fan edits exist, play that instead if you desire it because you think it's better. 

To quote Neil Gaiman:

Ultimately, the decision made by BioWare was theirs because that's how they felt it should end. Not liking something is one thing, calling them out and making demands is another. 

And hell, it's not like they didn't listen in the end anyway. Ive argued Andromeda played it too safe before- it's clear they didn't want to handle further baggage just in case, they just wanted to produce stuff that people like, and on paper it should have worked since the game is a literal check-box of ideas, themes and modular moments to capture that feeling. It was the antithesis of what people hated about Mass Effect 3, and people hated this more because it was too risk-adverse.

I guess that is what calling them out and demanding they produce what we like gets us versus them making their own art. 

Oh I know it's part of the job. A part that no doubt sucks for all in it at times.

I would just wish the people looking on the outside-in gain a perspective on things and actually tone it down a bit.

I don't believe it's separate at all, mostly because it's our own responsibility to curate our link, so to speak.

Take, for example, how Andromeda has been fixed. We had Ian Frazier here asking feedback before release, after the demo was out, everyone gave them feedback, plus more attached as the game was played a bit.

Lo and behold, the changes and updates to the game through the patches are on the very feedback given...changes that still anger people because they feel it's not fixing things properly or catering to the wrong audience.

Heres the rub; using these tools, we have adjusted, somewhat, as its easy to gain information quickly and discuss it. What we don't do sometimes is parse through it properly, and then the good bits of criticism to have is drowned out by the masses acting like children.

We should be more responsible in what we actually present or discuss. Knowing what people are thinking is meaningless if we don't know how to respond to it properly.