Strike Team missions - Interview with Mike Gamble

I'll never understand people complaining about developers making people go above and beyond for the best things in their games. Like people feel they should be able to get all the things with minimal effort. I understand if people are upset about being required to play multiplayer because they are in an area with bad internet connection. Others just complain that they shouldn't have to do this or that to get all the achievements or trophies for platinum or whatever. Getting all of those is supposed to be difficult and require you to do more than an average player. Saying "I should be able to get the best gear in the game without playing multiplayer" is just privileged. Why should you? It's their game, and they get to decide what level of effort gets what reward. People may not enjoy playing multiplayer, and that's fine, but that means you miss out on things that the devs have attached to multiplayer. That's your choice. It is not necessary for the devs to give everything to the lowest common denominator. They reward people who put the time and effort into the most of their game, play the game in different ways, use different weapons and abilities, and enjoy all aspects of the game. It's not fair to complain that I can't get all the achievements in ME2 with just playing and infiltrator kit. "But I don't like engineer!" Too bad. You want all the achievements you have to play as an engineer.

Its not about minimal effort.

Its about hating multiplayer in a series that presumably was going to allow someone compete all content in singleplayer.

In ME3, to the point of locking out endings. And there are worries that in MEA, it'd be to the point where one can't get all otherwise SP rewards without grinding MP.

Depends how they handle the interface and difficulty. If they want to replicate HM or Ops, putting the mission on the back burner till you have your MMO friends on-line makes every kind of sense, rather than wiping with pugs. Plus, what about gear and levels? I don't pay much attention to it in SP, upgrading when I can, so will I get kicked out of pugs because I am underlevelled and undergeared, so should do it solo like solo FPs, that are brain dead easy like in SWTOR ? Or if everyone in pugs are like me, will we get bolstered or we'll just wipe? Or is it more like Heroic missions difficulty, that with a bit of trying with a full party you won't wipe? I assume there is no mechanics you have to know not to wipe, since it's waves, but, but, but.... is it just intro on Bronze sort of difficulty to get peeps hooked, or is it actual hard mode?

Again, what happens if you wipe and is it pug-friendly???

and yet they penalize the solo players with lower rewards

dude....how? They are part of the SP but unless you tackle them coop then you do not get as much of a reward. How is that it penalizing the sp crowd?

You still get rewards and you can do it yourself. If there wasn't an additional money or resources rewards they wouldn't have made them MP missions.
Beside, many people said they were fine with this type of situation, as long as they aren't forced to use MP back in the day.

yes but it is a destiny-like slippery slope

Is giving rewards for optional content now seen as penalizing for those who do not wish to complete said content?