Getting to level 100 in Horizon Play seems a little extreme
To begin, I’m an achievement hunter and the research I have been doing has led to learning how big of a grind getting level 100.
My math is based on the person on the top of the spec racing leaderboard. As of last night, he was level 40 and the xp gap between 40-41 is over 300k. This makes the xp floor is at least 18,000,000 not counting the xp needed for 1-39. Based on some estimates of when the xp scaling will stop, I speculate that it’s somewhat reasonable to assume the total xp needed is around 40-50 million. My friend is going for worlds first in achievements and has been grinding the game well, consistently getting first place in each series he races. At his pace of ~18k xp per series and average 13 minutes per series it will take him 500-600 hours to get level 100. The average player (estimating) could average 12-13k per series and doing one 15 minutes it would take 750-1000 hours.
PGS has never made an achievement grind that would take the AVERAGE player a possible 1000 hours to complete, and something seems really wrong about the xp scaling of horizon play considering the ONLY rewards and 10 badges and an achievement. I can only hope that after the full release the xp gets reduced either automatically or intentionally because based on my math this just seems diabolically insane.