Duke no offense, but this doesn't affect you. You are again imagining the people of the Retake ME3 movement as ignorant fucks. You keep calling us derogatory names as freaking saliva foams from your theoretical mouth.
How the hell does this affect you? Bioware has always had a close relationship with its fans. Changes from ME1 to ME2 and from ME2 to ME3 were a grand part due to fans. The inclusion of Blasto the Hanar Spectre into the universe was also largely due to fan reaction. The continuing jokes of Garrus doing calibrations was due to fan reaction. Why can't they tweak the ending (one way or the other) due to fan reaction?
Not everybody liked the game. You're deluding yourself thinking that because people aren't speaking that they liked it. A grand majority aren't just that passionate. A big market that bought ME3 are just consumers. They moved to something else the second they got the chance. Others are literally ok with the ending or don't care enough to do anything about it. That's it. The rest either, the outspoken fans, the ones that Bioware comes for decision making and feedback, are largely in a state where we want a better resolution for something we invested so much time into.
Video games are an art form, but just like you say we can't use movies as an example, even though it's the closest medium to video games, people like you can't use paintings as an example. Art and paintings are not a business, at least not the ones that truly matter. The man/woman was good at it and people BOUGHT it from him. These games are created as a business. Art can be adapted. Sherlock Holmes got tweaked once fans got angry with the creator killing him off. Other books got a separate edition with different endings [not an actual example but Dark Tower is kinda like that]. Those are considered art. You can't expect EVERY piece of media in a setting to be considered art. If so freaking Transformers would be paired with the Artist.
This is a blockbuster. You want to think that once this happens that there'll be no end. For being such an outspoken liberal, that's a very conservative thing to say. [We can't allow gay marriage, because once we allow that there's no end. We can't legalize marijuana because once we do that, there's no end].
Bioware is doing this out of respect for fans. Let them. Video games get patched all the time, and stories get patched too in books and movies. It DOES happen.