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This is my first year and frankly, i'm not nearly good enough to do these moments.
My only option to complete it is to gain 800k PXP.
Even with double PXP it's a prohibitively long grind.
That's the equivalent to P5'ing 100 cards from scratch.
I doubt there's more than a handful of players with 100 P5s all year long, but we're expected to do it from Oct?
At a time when SDS needs all the players it can get, this will only drive away players like me.
Great idea.
As a first timer who is nowhere near good enough to complete any of the moments, the idea, this far in, of spending 100+ hours blindly grinding for a few cards is not at all appealing.
I'm fortunate to have every card in the game and excess stubs, so was really looking for something engaging to keep me interested, instead it's driving me away.
I want to keep playing but why would I, or anyone else in my situation?
A rare misstep from SDS (i have adored my first year playing) and one I hope they correct before what's left of the player base walks away.
If you're [censored] like me, don't risk losing him.
Take him and restart.
10 times now finishing DQ with odds varying between 35% and 94% to get Santana and still don't have him.
I can't do it anymore, but I will curse whoever at SDS who decided to not only make this the hardest Extreme Program but also put needed rewards behind a broken game mode that relying on RNG.
I have loved this game this year, but devoting more than 15hrs for literally zero reward is utterly ridiculous, and frankly, makes the game unplayable for me anymore.
It's a shame SDS got this one so wrong that it either infuriates or simply drives away many within their already dwindling player base.
@TheBigPapa55_PSN Thanks for that. I don't like DQ given the glitches, but did play it today.
Didn't get either player, but did get the Chase Pack (which is useless to me given i have so many stubs I could never use).
It's just demoralising as someone still learning the game.
I don't need the cards, but I still enjoy grinding the game and with content slowing down, I was hoping this would be something realistic.
@victoryphoenix_PSN Yep.
I'd say most who have played all year have a ton of unused stubs and most cards in the game.
It's a tough ask to expect people in that situation to devote a huge ton of time into grinding for these cards.
I think SDS missed the mark here, sadly.
@x-814-x-MAFIA-x_PSN Nah, it's PXP.
800,000 of it.
Even with double PXP that's 11,500 HRs on rookie (factoring in PA stats too).
I can't believe SDS thought that was realistic.
@TheBigPapa55_PSN Have you got anything to spend it on?
Coming from other games, it's so weird having all these leftover stubs and no use for them.
For those up to date with programs and collections, it seems like we haven't had a thing to spend our stubs on in quite some time.
Will there be anything else to use stubs on in the next month or so?
I'm very fortunate to be sitting on well over 3M stubs, even more fortunate to have all collections complete so have zero to spend these on.
I wouldn't even contemplate trying this.
Not only would I not be good enough, it seems super complicated (I saw one guy who got through 29 wins only to not have any fans for game 30).
Hard pass.
@skywalker_25_PSN Don't, dude.
I'm not one that doesn't want other people to have things i can't get.
The more that get all these cards the better.
As a first-timer who enjoys mini-seasons I was pretty shocked to see they did away with it (I can only assume to make it even more difficult to accomplish).
@Dolenz_PSN Fair point, but if you're not good enough to do the moments and need to rely on the PXP only, it's 100 P5 players worth from scratch.
It's my first year and I've played a ton as I've loved it and I don't even have 100 players P5 over the first 7 months of this game so no chance i will get that done despite playing a lot.
I've loved this year but I think SDS have grossly misjudged this one and it will result in more newer players just walking away which is the last thing the game needs at this time of the year.
I have almost every card in the game and millions of stubs such is the grind, but have nothing to spend them on and nothing to actually do (given i see this as unrealistic).
It's a real shame.
@NWOStunna_PSN It's silly, but they've been pushing this godforsaken mode all year long.
Besides that, having lost four stadium challenges (now five) to bottom of the fourth walk off home runs strikes me as rather odd given it's probably happened to me less than five times all year.
It's almost as if they've nerfed their sliders across the board to make it more 'extreme'.......
At a time when SDS need to be doing all they can to bring in and keep new players, making this program the most difficult ever makes zero sense.
Why would a new (or below average player) keep devoting time to a game when rewards are either unachievable or so time consuming that they no longer are rewarding?
It's driving me away and i'm not the only one.
I guess there's a reason this game sits a long, long way behind it's counterparts in the genre in terms of popularity.
@Jeff7407_PSN Spot on.
Also, glad you mentioned a happy medium because every person i've seen defending it justify their defence by disingenuously suggesting that anyone critical of it wants to 'finish it in an hour'.
I suspect because they know they're defending the indefensible.
@haZZ3rd0U5stick_PSN [censored].
I can't even be bothered opening all my free packs, so won't be ripping 50 boxes.
@Auburn2525_XBL Thanks, dude.
It's a weird feeling actively wanting them to bring stuff out behind packs, but i misjudged how quickly stubs would go from vital to useless in my situation.