Indoctrination Theory no more?

That sounds terrible, and I’m thankful you will be nowhere near writing the next Mass Effect game.

Oh yeah it's definitely farfetched but I guess since they didn't fill the gaps we have to assume someone saves Shep or else what would be the point of that scene?

I fully agree with you. And the fact that the Bioware mods knew this and trolled the community on BSN back in 2012 for weeks, sparking flame war after flame war absolutely disgusts me to no end. I remember the "Schroedinger's Shepard" bullshit put forth by one of them - you know, Shepard is both alive and dead at the same time and the only way to find out for sure is to open the box. Fuck the Copenhagen interpretation. They could have told the community about the iPhone app resolution.

I think my favourite bit was when Priestly started mansplaining writing science fiction to Melinda Snodgrass.... 😂

I don't need to play with Shepard again but I wanted to see what happens in the Milky Way after the Reaper war instead of going to another galaxy.

I don't know if ME can have a future, after ME3. I mean, does moving 600 years in the future fix anything? Whether in the MW or Andromeda? Or, hell, maybe if we move over to a third galaxy this time? The galaxy in the trilogy was already underexplored, the places we went to where literally 2 corridors and 5 doors, maybe, with the exception of the Citadel in ME1 and some of Omega. While we did visit some locales that are memorable, we didn't really explore them. We know nothing of Tuchanka, Palaven, Rannoch, Thessia and all these other places we've been told so much about. Effectively, it makes the setting feel very small, in comparison and I don't know if people feel any attachment to these places, but I can say that I don't. To me and many people I've talked to, the things that matter to them where the Normandy, the crew and the cast.

Similarly, I don't know if anyone that likes Andromeda is particularly attached to the Heleus cluster, or care about anything other than the Nexus, the Tempest and the expanded cast, again. I don't know for sure, but is anyone really invested in visiting Kadara again? Or is anyone interested in finding out how the Heleus Cluster is in the year 3257? Everything that matters in Ryder's time is over, it's done. Yeah, it can have new interesting things to explore and, at some point, we'd have to, but is that the "Andromeda sequel" that they want? I don't think it is and I don't think it can be. Similarly to all the unanswered questions of ME3's endings, none of which can be answered in a satisfactory manner 600 years later, none of Andromeda's unanswered questions can be answered 500 years later. And even if we get an Andromeda 2, with a new protagonist, that still leaves the fans that want to see those arcs concluded with Ryder.

Back in the weeks/months after ME3 dropped BW posted a bunch of infomatics showing how many players did x, y and z. Although it wasn’t something they disclosed they 100% would know how many people chose which endings. At around the same time there was a huge public survey run across a number of channels (not by BW). Can’t remember the exact numbers but the ballpark number of respondents was in the tens of thousands. The results from that suggested that the vast majority of respondents who completed the game went with Destroy.

If BW do have that data, and it does point towards one end being hugely more popular than the rest then just f***ing canonise it already. 🙄

I remember that data; I remember Destroy being like insanely high in percentage, followed by Synthesis, then I absolutely remember Control being only 8%. I remember this because I was shocked at how low it was. It was Paragon Soldier Sheploo that the majority of players went with. I forget the percentages on that, but I remember it was also high as well.

Unfortunately, I am also pretty sure Shepard isn't coming back.