@rubicante23_PSN said:

Here's the problem SDS has...

Player 1 says "Every game that I play on hall of fame is 1-0! Its just steals and sac flys in extra innings! What a miserable slog! This game sucks!"

But, here comes Player 2 - he knows how to hit and doesnt get stuck playing 1-0 games. He says "I dont want to play CPU for 40 games! Thats boring! This game sucks!".

Im not sure they can win. The people who cant chop the wood complain about the wood. The people who can chop dont wanna chop the wood.

End Result: Ain't nobody out there anymore Ballin' Like It's a Habit.

Yep. But then you have the guys like me who are in the middle. HOF and Legend offline are enough of a challenge to enjoy it but not so much that I’m sweating it. Program is perfect for me (minus the PXP thing).

Player 1 says "Every game that I play on hall of fame is 1-0! Its just steals and sac flys in extra innings! What a miserable slog! This game sucks!"

But, here comes Player 2 - he knows how to hit and doesnt get stuck playing 1-0 games. He says "I dont want to play CPU for 40 games! Thats boring! This game sucks!".

Im not sure they can win. The people who cant chop the wood complain about the wood. The people who can chop dont wanna chop the wood.

End Result: Ain't nobody out there anymore Ballin' Like It's a Habit.

@WolfgangMLB_XBL said:

My complaint with SDS is more that they take a 120 day vacation between games. How hard is it to drop some extra programs/themes/cards???

If I am not mistaken we usually get content through Christmas. Maybe it's not the most exciting but that is at least what I remember.

There are 120 days until the next MLB and SDS is probably about done with content….so they dumped this as a parting gift.

My complaint with SDS is more that they take a 120 day vacation between games. How hard is it to drop some extra programs/themes/cards???
There are endless possibilities. Hundreds of silver, bronze and even gold live series players that could be slightly justified receiving an end of year 99 overall.

I just don’t get SDS because they are taking money out of their own pockets, which would require minimal effort to earn.

@BearDownGoBlue_PSN said:

@Jeff7407_PSN Agreed. I hope they find a way to resolve that in future versions of the game. A cosmetic only change shouldn't be a seperate card. It's not the most important thing in the world but it bugs me when I have an empty spot in my inventory for a cosmetic difference.

Yeah, I have not gotten the most recent ones but I have had to alter my program for these so they don't appear on card counts as separate cards. I had to do it last year for Ranked 1000, but now we have the Draft guy, Spooky and this.

@MarioMendoza935_XBL said:

@Dolenz_PSN said:

Like the program.
Hate that there is no XP and Stats.

I like this program, too, but don't like the "moment" set up (no PXP or stats).

If I remember correctly, I think this is the same way it was set up in 2020, before the advent of PXP. @savefarris_psn probably remembers.

2019, with Signature Vlad Sr as the final reward.

Getting DOUBLE the rewards is a massive haul - makes completing collections way easier if you get two cards instead of one (in middle of year theyd have to be sellable - so you wouldn't be stopped from completing collection if you cant play legend...). But yeah, double the rewards is a pretty giant benefit for playing the higher difficulty

@Dolenz_PSN said:

Like the program.
Hate that there is no XP and Stats.

I like this program, too, but don't like the "moment" set up (no PXP or stats).

If I remember correctly, I think this is the same way it was set up in 2020, before the advent of PXP. @savefarris_psn probably remembers.

@rubicante23_PSN said:

A huge part that people miss is that doing the extreme gives you two cards for collection purposes - which would let me sell a bunch of other cards and make a TON of stubs. (I dont really need the cash, but it gives about a million stubs...)

This could be used in future - doing higher difficulty gets you both copies, which are super valuable for collections.

I'd love to see them do more stuff like this in the future for offline content. Basically any program could have two paths, and doing the harder difficulty one gets you double the rewards, but everyone gets the same card rewards on each path.

I think there was a reason they originally did moments that way - maybe some concern about people cheesing them for infinite pxp or something?

This could be used in future - doing higher difficulty gets you both copies, which are super valuable for collections.

@Bridge-Piece_XBL said:

What I really love about this format is that it takes away some of the unnecessary stress. In past Extreme programs, you could spend a ton of time on a Conquest or Showdown, lose one game, and have to start all over again.

This exactly. I like that this encourages players to try the higher difficulty because you arent having progress wiped out with losses.

@markemark_NSW said:

@Bridge-Piece_XBL
I understand and agree with you on all but one thing: your “one small nitpick” about stats and PXP not counting is a dealbreaker for most players interested in this program.

Yeah that’s fair. Trust me, I’d love for the PXP to count - particularly for my pitchers who are not P5. But for me it’s more like “eh that stinks, but whatever” instead of a dealbreaker.

@capardo_XBL said:

I also just noticed that the Aaron signature final reward card is NOT part of that collection.

Cards don’t appear on the collection screen until someone discovers their card first. Just means (at the time), no one earned him yet.

I love that casual players can still earn the cards, while those who want the challenge can take on Extreme and earn both variants. I’m not even someone who cares about variants, but I’ve always loved the Extreme program and the challenge that comes with it.

What I really love about this format is that it takes away some of the unnecessary stress. In past Extreme programs, you could spend a ton of time on a Conquest or Showdown, lose one game, and have to start all over again. Don’t get me wrong, that was part of the challenge, but it could also be incredibly frustrating. You really had to sweat every moment because one mistake could waste hours of progress.

With this format, you can just chill, play the game, and enjoy the challenge without worrying about losing all your progress. I don’t know, I’m having an absolute blast with it, and I’d love to see this become the standard format for Extreme going forward.

My one small nitpick would be that it’d be nice to earn PXP along the way, but most of my God Squad is already P5 anyway (well, my hitters at least), so it’s really not that big of a deal.

I know it’s not everyone’s cup of tea, but I think they absolutely nailed this one. Huge W for the content team. @sds_joek_psn