Bronze Waves

There is another way to do things and BW know it already as it wasn't like that in ME3. If you did Plat, that would count towards a bronze wave challenge - which is as it should be.

Defending Bioware's incomprehensible strategies is not cutting it.

If I was only capable of Bronze here, I don't see why I would mind that a Gold or Plat game would count for the challenge. The important thing is that *I* would be able to complete the challenge. The fact that people that have invested more time in the game would be inconvenienced to play Bronze wouldn't make me happier or more content with Bioware. If it did make me happier, I would be a pretty shitty person actually.

I don't argue that having challenges accessible to everyone is good - I fully support more of that. But there are ways and *ways* to do it.

Come on, folks! What about "Uncle Killa's Adopt a Pug Program" -- meet the masses of Mass Effect! Do your fuggin' bronze, open game to public, get easy MF's? I use these 'opportunities' to farm some challenge using characters I normally don't take to gold/plat. Fun!

Bronze sucks balls.

Personally, I don't mind running a Bronze match really...

Yes and no.  The hypothetical ideal is a game that is easy to learn or get into, but takes a long time to master.  I only bring this up because Wizard of the Coast has really been struggling make Magic the Gathering meet both criteria more smoothly.  It's been interesting to see WotC try different changes to try to achieve that goal (some improvements, but also some setbacks).  One of the best principles that I think they use (which unfortunately isn't applicable to ME:MP) is that complexity of a card is dependent on rarity.  Since most new players will start by just buying random packs of cards, they're likely to see more commons than uncommons and rares, so they'll have access too the simplest cards and see them the most frequently.  So that can use the commons to learn the fundamentals of MtG. Uncommons and rares are sprinkled so they can learn new mechanics, but don't always have to deal with them.  Then when they become more advanced they can make their own decks with a higher rare/uncommon to common ratio, increasing the complexity of the game.  In theory you can have have both.  I would argue that a game like chess is easy to learn, but certainly takes a long time to master.  But I would agree that in practice, the two are effectively mutually exclusive.