How much time should a Full Manifest grind take?

I tend to agree with the 200-400 hour time slot for manifest grind.

Since, 3 hours a day for 100 days is 300 hours.
Or 1000 matches at 20 minutes a match is 333.333 hours.

The entire game shouldn't be manifest grind, once you max your manifest, then you can starting grinding challenges for many thousands of hours.

Gameplay is it's own reward. I kept playing after maxing out.

About $1400, I mean, 700 hours. And I'm saying it just because 700 hours was around the time I got impatient and totally NOT used Cheat Engine to finish the couple missing Ultra-Rares.

Eleventy years

Sitting at around 600 hours and still haven't maxed my URs...sitting at Javelin IX for months is so damn frustrating...

Also it seems like some weapons just hate me. Indra and Venom come to mind. They are like II or III at the moment...

Voted for between 200-400 hours.

Grinding and unlocking new shiny things is fun for a while, but it is not enough to keep me engaged. Just recently stopped playing Warframe for that reason. Found myself playing the same boring missions over and over again, just to get enough resources/credits in order to be able to buy a specific weapon or character that I want. Once I have them: rince and repeat for the next one.

I hope that MEA MP will offer more than that, and so far, I am cautiously optimistic.

I voted 200-400 hours, because 900 is way too much, although better than almost 1300 in DAMP.
Playing the game without praying to RNG is so much fun.

I voted for 400-600 hours. However, I think there should be a secret option: until ME:A2 comes out.

I voted 1000+ because I have no life, and I know you don't either

I might end up playing that much for the first six months alone. I guess many BSNers will too.

Still, I think that somewhere between 1/3 to 1/2 of that time should be ideal to max one's manifest. Progression in-game should not be balanced having hardcore players as the standard... Or they will end up with an utter failure like DAIMP, in which progress was so slow that it even killed the idea of spending real money on the game's store.

Even if Bioware/EA believe that in-game progress should be pretty lengthy so that more people will spend real money on the store, they have to consider that people who spend money do so desperately looking for shortcuts and instant, meaningful acquisitions; they won't be playing this game for hundreds of hours and they are not looking for that when they open their wallets.

Doesn't matter too much to me being retired, probably in the 400 hours. Never really saw it a a grind as I enjoyed the journey very much, groups of us saving credits then having a night of just opening packs and discussing what we received then trying the new toys out. Played hundreds of games, well into the hundreds of hours after my manifest was finished helping others which was fun as well.