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

Apparently, we're getting Platinum solo videos #soon *cough* 

I appreciate what you bring to the community, especially your work with the weekly Twitch Streams.  But man, now you have all the people on reddit thinking I do nothing but camp the box of shame on platinum.

By association with you through BSN.     I don't know if it's a lower or higher level of shame, but I didn't even really bother with platinum.

Edit:  I misinterpreted "hug box" as another name for the box of shame.

Broadcast away. Everyone can see you get your Platinum revive medal.

Don't show that to Vegasflash.  He might mistake that for you trying to scoop him on platinum farming videos.

The majority of very good players on PC actually did not play platinum after they got enough credits; they went back to gold because the ceiling in platinum for most classes that weren't the destroyer and gi and cameltoe and the couple of turian/krogan specific kits was artificially mandated for consumable use, specifically of the three and four variety, and then waves composition stuff like Cerberus eight or geth wave seven that were just hyper tracking spam fests.

It's the same paradigm in Warfarme; plenty of players can play Sortie-level content, but if they took Rivens out of sorties and just made a sortie planet, the only players that would be there continually would be 5000 plat bought soma riven tryhard mesas and covert lethality lokis, and eventually even they would not only get bored of that but bored of the game in general.

So other than Sirian and the other usual suspects complaining about noobs in their plat games, which was a bald faced troll attempt because sirian never played public games after the whole jay haxtatrax thing, and I'm sure two rather obvious posters here will try the same thing and should be autobanned for it, it wasn't really a thing aside from FTL's continual attempt to thunderdome people who didn't worship him as their god and liege.

Condor, London and Rio just weren't good maps at all, much less good for plat

Me too, though I haven't played the game in weeks though.

Not that I remember, FTL even cheesed out on apIV TI with AR IV and a harrier and still lost somehow.

Have to wholeheartedly agree with you on Condor, but only because all the ammoboxes are bugged. I´m usually out of TCPs by wave 6 if the game goes well (read: pugs get shit done). And that´s with the assault loadout btw. But the other two are quite enjoyable for the most part.

One can hope, half the guys I end up grouping with can barely handle Zero/Outlaw so I don't have high hopes for competent team mates on Platinum.

Well I can't view page 2 of this thread for some reason (my web filter seems to think there is adult content?) but I did want to follow up on some previous commentary.

The guy on reddit seems to think I am (was) some kind of ME3MP god whose Platinum prowess is unmatched by your average PUG. To which I say... what?

I don't consider myself particularly good at shooters. I have lousy reflexes (I'm in my 40s FFS), I never mastered some mechanics such as reload canceling, my aim is crappy so I get few headshots, and I only ever vaguely knew the wave compositions and spawn points.

But what I did is play Platinum a lot. A LOT. Hundreds and hundreds of hours, thousands of games (roughly 2,000 I would guess). Grinding it out with PUG after PUG after PUG. So many Giant / Reapers / Platinum games that I can't even count. So many games where I did nothing buy hold down 'B' for 20 minutes (Geth Juggernaut). So many games that ended in failure on Wave 3 or Wave 5 or Wave 10 due to Geth stunlock bullshit or Devices bullshit or general me + PUG crappiness.

Relatively late in my ME3MP career I became XBL friends with some of the top players there -- you guys know who you are; I'm not going to put my foot in my mouth by forgetting to mention someone by name in a list. Did I get carried a lot? Hell yes I did. Did I start returning the favor to random PUGs when I could and was able to? Yes.

I still don't see how this makes my experiences so abnormal. I feel like I took a pretty typical path to manifest maxing: clueless newb --> play a shit-ton of Platinum to grind for credits --> slightly more clueful non-newb --> play a shit-ton more games --> eventually max manifest.

I am *convinced* we will say 'average PUGs' grinding Platinum for credits on MEA. I don't think it will be just the 'good' players (like me apparently?!) grinding Plat. It will be everyone who wants credits. Which is... almost everyone, right?