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@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.
@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.
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.
@SayHeyKid_SF_PSN That's awesome, dude.
The more people that get him, the better.
Hope you enjoy.
Thanks for all the replies.
For those still going, hope you get him, but you're a better man than I.
I'll just put the controller down for a bit, play something else and come back when new programs/spooky updates come.
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.
@LIONED-33_XBL It's the worst mode ever created.
If you complete something successfully, you should get the reward, not have an RNG chance at a reward.
I can stomach it during the year as I have the choice to avoid and buy the cards, but the fact that they've shoehorned us into this [censored] is obscene.
@SakAttack87_PSN I'm terrible with bunting. No matter what i do, I have very little success.
@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.
@x-814-x-MAFIA-x_PSN I didn't suggest a mini season.
I suggested the requirements are a ridiculous overreach.
I got Kenley on my second time round.
I've played the Santana stadium 12 times.
I've beaten it 8 times.
The four times I lost were to walk off home runs in the bottom of the fourth.
No Santana.
I'm legit well over 12hrs into DQ and still don't have both cards.
Who's genius idea was it to put 30 points behind RNG [censored]?
I've been trying to find reasons to keep playing this game because I have enjoyed it so much this year, but this stuff is going to be the reason I walk away because it's not only incredibly frustrating, it's pointless and unrewarding.
How many other new players will just walk away rather than continue wasting hour upon hour for non-guaranteed rewards?
What an own goal from SDS.
@DrBear100_PSN said in Ways to Save Extreme:
Double PXP is coming soon. That should help the grinders.
Double PXP has been on throughout.
Even with it, it will still take the equivalent of P5'ing 100 players from scratch.
I currently have 115 P5 after 7-8 months and have more hours of gameplay than 99% (sadly).
There's no way i am going to repeat the same level of grind when the game is largely dead.
@TheBigPapa55_PSN In all seriousness, I would happily share them around, mate.
I come from a different game where making currency was insanely tough, so it's weird having all this and not being able to spend it.
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.
@x-814-x-MAFIA-x_PSN said in Extreme Program:
As I stated in another thread; its not meant, unless youre a really good player, to be completed in a few days.
See, this is what annoys me.
People are asking for a grind that doesn't require the equivalent of P5ing 100 cards from scratch, not something they can 'complete in a few days' yet people continue to make statements like yours to justify their defence of this program.
@TheBigPapa55_PSN Exactly.
I truly feel many of those defending such onerous requirements are those who don't want others to have the same rewards they do.
I was fortunate enough to get John Donaldson straight away and I was still advocating for SDS to help others get him sooner.
The whole 'i have grinded harder/played better therefore I deserve more than you' mentality sucks.
@RealMessiah_XBL 15% is the equivalent of about 1,400 home runs, so if you're there with 'normal gameplay', you must be playing this game for many hours a day.
@NWOStunna_PSN You can go out at any time.
Don't worry about the zone sweeper.
It's actually easier than most all the challenges.
You don't have to face some dude throwing everything at the edge of the plate at 102.
If you're [censored] like me, don't risk losing him.
Take him and restart.