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This is what a lifetime of "participation trophies" does to the mindset of our youth. None of them can fathom losing at anything, let alone have it be their fault.

@BJDUBBYAH_PSN Tomorrow's is Double PxP, not XP, so no help for the Program XP path. I am currently at 250K, so I don't have any concerns about finishing the XP path, but I also do all the offline Programs. I don't play online at all currently. I didn't collect the bosses from Inning 1, as I was prioritizing accumulating Stubs for the Live Series and sold both of them.

Crazy that this isn't going to drop for over a month. I only started playing DD two years ago, so I only know the previous way of TA, and this is a huge improvement over that way of doing it, however, this one can feel overwhelming and get stale if there isn't a card reward to grind for on the TA pass for each Team. I was motivated to get all 30 of the Jolt cards, but there is currently a huge void between that card and the All-Star voucher, filled with not a lot to grind for.

For whatever reason I just can't beat a Showdown to save my life and I am stuck one voucher away from Scott Rolen, with only the Negro Leagues Showdown or the Spring Breakout Showdown left to do. You have to beat the Spring Breakout one 4 times, so no chance on that one. You only have to beat the Negro Leagues one once, but I just can't do it. I need one more card for the Negro Leagues. Does anyone know if there are additional Storylines to come?

@GoozeFn_PSN I have 17 of the 18 vouchers needed for Rolen. The two that I don't have are the Negro Leagues and Spring Breakout. Both of those are locked behind the Showdown mode, so unless I can somehow get them done, I won't be able to get Rolen. I know it is a "me" issue, but I hate that they don't have a way to finish the collection without being able to complete a Showdown.

I don't consider the pack a ripoff move by SDS at all, and I am anything but an SDS apologist. As with everything else in life, there is a price for convenience and the inability to wait for something. I am an old guy, nearly 60 years old, and back in the day we had to learn to wait for things. There was rarely instant gratification. You wanted the news, you had to watch television at 6p and 10p. If something happened after 10p, you found out in the next mornings paper. You wanted some trivial fact of information, you got in the car, or drove your bike to the library to look it up in a reference book, which was probably 5+ years old itself. You didn't carry around a personal computer with you all day, like now with smartphones. The pack was presented on the "Not Live" SDS stream exactly correctly. They said that there would be an all-encompassing pack released later in the night that would have all of the same cards as the first two packs and more, and that the first two would be more expensive, but you would have your choice of cards, and you would get to use them earlier. I have $1.2M stubs and less than a month before Madden 26 launches, so I was perfectly fine with paying $75K for the Cardinals draft pick. It does sting a little to see the card available this morning for $25K, but as I said, $50K in stubs was the price for the fun I had using the card last night. Money well spent for me. Not everything is about "flipping" or "investing", or a "virtual card holding it's value". Just to be clear, it is virtual and since I didn't spend a dime to acquire those stubs, and can't sell the cards for real money, it has no "value" for me.

Yes, you will continue to earn PXP with the player already at P5 for the challenges requiring PxP with the team they play on, but as you said you won't earn it for the player already at the max upgrade.

I am starting to believe that gaming companies have eliminated beta testing of all games as a "cost savings", instead allowing the general public to be their "beta testers". It is rampant in Madden, and appears to have made its way to SDS. The Weekend Classic was the cornerstone of what was new in MLB 25, and it is probably too kind to call it a mess at this point. Cheating/Tanking is rampant, the servers are terrible, and honestly playing the game feels like there have been ZERO innovations this year, or really any of the things that we identified in years past fixed.

@dap1234567890_PSN Thanks! That is what I was afraid of. I guess I won't be getting Scott Rolen.

@SaveFarris_PSN Ok, I sampled it, failed, but I still need those cards to get the Scott Rolen or Ted Williams collection rewards, so MAKE THEM SELLABLE, so us failure's can purchase them on the open market and do the main collections.