The Mysterious Benefactor

Not a good way to go with stuff like that. Disappointing and a nuisance for the player. You may or may not get a resolution for your game content.In any way, gimme money for what should have been included in a standalone game. This hasn't been advertised as series of games as opposed to the first three parts.

Pure speculation. They provided content, hooked you on that, just to leave you standing in the rain without any kind of resolution. That's shady, if it isn't just a case of bad writing. I can understand something being left open, such as the nature of the Kett, but not the side quests. I'm not speculating when playing a game. If there's an interesting questline I want to see that resolved through my efforts.

that's how stories like these are. ME did , da did it, halo did it, game of thrown's did it, star war did it, etc ,etc.

Just wait and answers will come. If you don't like this type of story telling then don't invest in story that do this.

My crazy theory for this is that the MB and the killer are different people with different goals. Garson was clearly paranoid but the question is did she really have a valid reason to fear? Well yeah she was murdered however I think that murder was just a powerplay move by someone who wanted to be top dog like Addison although she would be to oblivious.

As for the MB my theory gets even crazier!! What about the Geth or Legion? Thinking back to ME2 and the shadowbroker terminal that had dossiers on all the crew and how Legion had hacked something for the credits that he gave to the Quarian relief fund or something like that. A race of AIs certainly could steal enough credits for such a project and have good reason to keep their identity hidden. I feel there is probably a zero percent chance of me being right but it certainly be a strange twist.

The mysterious benefactor is Illusive Man clone. That's simple. He already make Shep clone for parts, definitely he makes his own clone "if" something will happen, just to be sure that his legacy will survive.

5 bucks says its Ellen





......or Jar Jar.....

What if the Benefactor was Shephard? I had 9999999 credits after ME1, then maybe Shep could of saved up there ME2 money aswell to donate for it. The mineral scanning all went to the crucible of course, Shepard knew the economy would crash when the Reapers arrived anyway

Not sure if this has been mentioned, but in the Pathfinder office close to where Cora hangs out you can find the schematics for the Normandy SR-2. I don't mean a tiny ship to display in your quarters, but the actual schematics.

Makes little sense from a story-telling point of view. With Mass Effect 3 the story of TIM is told, makes little sense to extend upon it. Of course he has the resources and it fits his MO, but the Initiative is not human centric enough to be a secret Cerberus offshot. Hard to imagine that there'd be an Asarian, Turian and Asari arch with TIM.

I dont think it could be TIM. Dont think Bioware would risk beating that dead horse.
BUT, i do believe he is somehow connected, Cora HARPER is too much of a coincidence... she knows stuff she aint telling yet...
In Alec Ryder's memories when the benefactor is talking to him he/she specifically says he/she IS in the Initiave, didnt stay behind. So it cant be TIM cause he was in milky way after the initiave left.

Also, I think both Jien and Alec are alive. Jien's face was too burnt to actually have a 100% certainty that it was her. And when you talk to Dr. Carlysle and Cora after Alec's death, they are super dismissive about it and avoid the conversation. Probably the reason why Dr. Carlysle stayed in the Hyperion instead of the Pathfinder team (as he was supposed too) was to oversee Alec's condition after his fake death. Jien and Alec are now probably somewhere on Habitat 7. I mean, they really dont give you a satisfying reason why Habitat 7 is gonna be terraformed the normal way, like, dont go there any time soon, cause that place is gonna take centuries to be liveable. They dont even send you to check out the vault to make sure you cant terraform it with Remnant tech?? Also, i bet Alec is there sipping mojitos and giggleing cause Scott/Sara thinks Ryder-1 was named after them, muahahah dad of the year.

And the reason for fake deaths? Well the benefactor thinks he removed the threats to his goal. Let him get comfortable make his next move, watch it from a safe place, and strike when he shows himself up.

Not a chance. They made it very cleary - they don't want to be found. Whatever problems they're facing, are too serious for DLC. They'll be left for another game and you can bet whatever they're facing will come to Andromeda creating another huge problem.
Saren = Archon
Problems the last Ark is facing = Collectors

Benefactor: “The mysterious benefactor is intentionally left unresolved, as it has deeper ties to the metastory of the MEA saga. By the time you find the killer, they’re long gone…” source

Shadow Broker should've been one of the side quests, not a DLC which is unavailable for some regions (seriously, unlock the damn thing already!). All others were addons IMO. Same will happen with MEA, I believe. You must remember they had to make those loose ends because more games are coming and I doubt it'll be just a sequel. I think they want to make it a long-term series, like DA, but with the same protag (that's why they made Ryder so young and we've only seen a part of one cluster so far).