How long until Platinum 'Farming' complaints overwhelm BSN and reddit?

You mean you're not already farming Platinum? Git gud, bro.

Dude is a clown. The box of shame existed on Rio for a reason.

I played as a Volus Vanguard (called Crash Dummy #413 since I usually died one second after charging into an enemy) on platinum so I'm the best example of a noob playing it.

I would difference here. It's not the same if a communicating group or some pugs farm platinum.
Good groups will find a way to farm it within the first days.
Pugs will hopefully never farm it regularly.
For clarification, farming is not the same as just completing.

Ah yes reddit, where people think that the TGI and AIU are the strongest characters in ME3. We have dismissed that claim.

Best. Autocorrect. EVAR.

(1) Communication helps but after a while we won't need it, just like we already don't in Gold, the current hardest difficulty.

(2) Within the first hours I think you mean.

(3) Wrong. PUGs will be doing it so hard and so often that Platinum Farmville will be the next Facebook game smash hit.

(4) Farming = repeatedly playing something over and over to gain credits (or XP, whatever) as efficiently as possible. I bear no ill-will towards 'farmers' AT ALL. Everyone is free to enjoy the game however they want.

Depends. What time is the patch thingy?

Yeah, I mean, that's exactly my point. I'm not a world beater player by any stretch but I can hold my own. If I am going to grind for credits then of course I am going to do it in the most efficient way possible.

I got my manifest maxed on ME3 by tagging along with better players until I got to be good enough to at least contribute, then I found some regular crews. Shoutout to everyone on XBL who helped me git gud and survive the grind!

probably won't even take a day. I played the 11-wave Apex Aqua mission the entire weekend. The first two games were hard and people ran around trying to figure out how to beat it. After two games, everyone farmed and the game got a lot easier. When some people tried not to farm, I did a couple of times myself, the first time you died on earlier waves and none of your squatmates came to revive you, you'd naturally gravitate towards farming, or even feel obligated so that the team could make it. We didn't have any communications either. People just knew what to do.

As for the reddit thing, don't worry about it. You belong here.

Opposed to ME3, Platinum in Andromeda is not crucial for manifest progression. I obviously expect Platinum to provide substantial credits output for those willing to farm it. Still, quick and easy Gold matches are pretty rewarding credits-wise as they are.

I think we can agree on most points.
I follow your definition for farming. Point is that it shouldn't be too easy.
We'll see which efficiency will be possible with pugs.

To make another comparison to me3, there it was not really possible to farm platinum with pugs, with some few exceptions like rios box of shame or lz of giant. And even with this setup bad pugs could make you fail. Average pug was definitely not able to solo it some not even a single wave.
When the efficiency lacks it's not really farming, it's more a trying hard.