Gold games required to max ultra rares = 1473 or 81 000 000 credits

Assuming premium packs have a 22.5% drop rate it takes 450 000 to get 1 UR. If there are 180 UR cards to collect that means 450,000 x 180 = 81 million credits. Which divided on 55,000 per gold game = 1473 gold  games. 

The grind in this game is unreal. I've allready played for 125 hours but I'm still missing 130 ultra rares. 130x 450,000 = 58500000 / 55 = 1091 gold games left. If I want to max my manifest within the next 3 months that means I'll have to play around 12 games a day...... Assuming I can get 3 games done per hour that's 4 hours per day for the next 3 months.

In me3 I maxed my manifest in good time before the first dlc because there were only 70 ultra rare cards to collect. Now I couldn't keep track of time and games played on xbox 360 but I'm pretty sure it was nowhere near as much as the projected numbers above. Probably half of that max.

It's pretty discouraging to look at the actual raw facts here. I've allready grinded so much that I'm getting bored of many aspects of the game but I'm not even a 3rd of the way to maxing my ultra rares. In fact I still don't even have a piranha or hurricane 1. In me3 I was not even close to bored of the game when I maxed my manifest before dlc.

Well done ea/bioware, the new ultra rare system is cancer, especially the charcter card x system If it weren't for the characcter cards this wouln't be too bad but as it is this is too much grind required I think.

And this is all before a significant amount of dlc has come out. They allready added inferno and the gladiator, I assume they'll add a bunch more. Unlocking dlc characters is gonna be such a pain. It will be very upsetting if they add something like a drell adept (my fav char from 3) and I could risk playing another 125 hours without getting him because the odds of getting the ultra rares you want are so abysmal because of so many items in the ultra rare pool. In me3 you at least had a fair chance of maxing the original items before dlc so dlc was easier to unlock. Good luck with that in this, most people won't be able to achieve it within a reasonable timeframe without spending a lot of money.