The Grind: Max Manifest Breakdown

Multiply those estimates by a hundred, then.

Hmmm... I honestly believe

most of us will get maxed manifest before 350 hours.

Ahh.. necromancy. A lost art.

Even in match time, that's a gross under estimation.  Only playing gold, only buying premiums, and NEVER buying supply packs would this add up, and that's only with new premium pack drop rate math. 

Even spacev3gan took about 420 hours, in match, and I'm skeptical of his math/time and he boasts only playing gold with apex bonuses since the beginning of time.

You all are just off and I'm not sure why.   Maybe people are cheating somehow.  I wouldn't be surprised given the pugs that I've seen lately with under 10K apex and level X ultra rares.

If bioware goes the entire life of this multiplayer with no real enforcement of discipline from exploits and cheats, the next title is going to be a total hack fest.

At 420 hours I was still missing a few UR. Maxed all of them at 431 hours.
I have been playing Gold since day 3, and only Gold Apex since that 'No Revive' event with 20% bonus, when I and my friends finally realized the bonuses are too good to pass. I spent little on Supply packs, just enough to keep me going. I had like 7 or so Revive consumables in my inventory by the time I got my last UR.
My Gold runs with friends usually take 12-14 minutes, and many of these runs usually reward 60k or more credits. Feel free to youtube me (can't link from cellphone) if you doubt about my credits/time output. OP's math point out 450 hours, and I simply achieved that slightly quicker with a better credit output.

Also, feel free to doubt me/report me for cheating or whatever. That would surely be funny, given my history of being anti-cheaters in Bioware games. But I guess when other players start maxing their manifest around the 400-450 hours range, you (and other skeptics who have no foundation to base your arguments other than conjectures) may come to terms with the idea that it doesnt take that crazy long to get all URs after all.

It's theoretically possible to have a maxed manifest with, say, 2 hours played in game all of which was spent in the Store menu spending Andromeda Points. This would give you an Apex ranking of what, 15,000 or so?

So I sure as hell wouldn't report someone with 10,000 Apex just because their hours seem 'too low'. They might've spend their hard earned money paying for your DLC.

So the total time isn't much different from ME3. Only problem is I found enough diversity to make it almost 1000 hours there, I'm not sure this time there is enough for me to make it past 250.