["SCIENCE"] 1456 Premium Spectre Packs

That's how many PSP I opened today to max out a new manifest. I had 3 hours in front of me to listen to Mozart's Don Giovanni.

I made a new origin account, bought a 5$ ME3, cheatengined myself 999,999,999 credits for the MP, and kept on opening PSP (consider I had 3 "gifts" pack in the beginning and I had to spend 5000 credits to buy a pack in the beginning of the game to make cheatengine work). 

Since there are 210 UR, I had 14,43% of chances to get a UR in PSP.

It means you would have to do 1748 SUCCESSFUL gold matches (1 match = 82500 credits) or 954 SUCCESSFUL platinum matches (1 match = 151250 credits).

If you take on average 25 min to finish a gold match, it means you'll need 730 hours ahead of you to max out your manifest legit, if you only do successful and average/quick gold matches.
Considering there are bugs, menuing, failures, mandatory bronze and silver matches, I guess the whole "complete" and legit experience should be around 1000 hours; I had around 1000 hours of gameplay before I maxed out my "legit" manifest the 23rd of march, 2013.

For the record, I got all gold weapons and gears, all characters after ~50,000,000 credits. So I needed 100,000,000 more credits to get all UR.

Since one PSP cost 2,99$, it means you would have to spend 1456*2,99 (4354$) to max out your manifest with real money. 

Thank you for your attention; I'll be seen you in 4 years for a breakdown on MEA MP maxed manifest

I completely disagree, I've played more than 1000 hours and encountered a maximum of 5/10 hacked games (on PC) so I hardly consider it as a problem. I consider hacking to be nearly mandatory for soloing for instance because of the equipment consumption it involves and the dumb store system.