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Just realized this is a 10th inning card, which is intriguing. I assumed the Finest drop would be lame this year and restricted to TA. Happy to be wrong.

Yeah the font kind of kills it for me unfortunately. Maybe it looks better in game. Tough to beat 2023 for me though.

Retro Finest for Harper makes sense as his 25 was just ok (for his standards anyway). Turner and Saurez more deserving of 2025 themed 99s

With the amount of 99s released its pretty unforgiveable to not give all 4 of those guys, plus Diaz, a 99

Edwin Diaz makes sense for Mets finest

@TheGoaler_PSN said in If Yamamoto Has 6 Pitches......:

Only if that meta pitcher uses 6 pitches irl.
Yamamoto does.

Of course they will give pitchers 6 pitches to make the card more meta. Theyve tried to show restraint with pitchers so far but when .260 hitters can get 125 contact its clear they don't aren't interested with having cards represent the players anymore.

@icebergslim7669_PSN said in If Yamamoto Has 6 Pitches......:

I think their is only 5 available buttons to use to select pitch , other remaining buttons are to step off and throw over and such.

If I can comfortably map 40+ abilities for Final Fantasy XIV SDS can find a way to give us a 6th pitch.

I suspect retro finest will be very similar to retro all star

Im going to assume 33 total finest: 30 TA, 3 collection.

I have little faith they will put any effort into this.

@ref479ode_PSN said in Team Affinity Finest…please reconsider:

Once you have 99 everything's then there is no point in ta or even finest because you're not really improving your team anymore so why grind

Not everyone plays a god squad every game

Some people like to play with theme teams, or even use their favorite players.
But admittedly those people are few so SDS stopped caring about them.

Neither of the last two years required you to win 10 games in a row on HoF+ with the 10th on Legend
In fact, neither year required you to touch legend mode unless you lost a game or two in the first round.

Some issues with the new model

All the non player rewards were front loaded and earned by All Star Break
Inconsistencies with captains
Very, very boring structure of just "hit a lot with the team" beyond the initial batch of missions
An unacceptably poor treatment of legends this year, perhaps partially because of them not caring to make as many TA cards
TA miniseasons were never replaced with different ones

They tried something new, it seems unpopular, so hopefully they learn from it

@TheGoaler_PSN said in Spooky Program Reveals (month long program):

Senga and his 'Ghost Fork' definitely scared us Met fans in 2025. He was awful. Scary awful at times. Hopefully, he rebounds in '26. We need him, and I'm a big fan, but let's be honest. He's in this card series for his Forkball name. Good thinking, SDS!
Has anyone faced his previous cards online? Is he hard to pick up?

He had the best ERA in baseball until his injury. After the injury, not so much
But he still somehow ended with a 3.02 ERA and his career so far is worthy of a 99

Everyone is hung up on difficulty. Extreme does not remotely imply difficult.

The thing is, the amount of pxp needed is beyond extreme, its just flat out unreasonable to expect anyone to play the game that much from this late point in the season.

Also addressing the issue that this program should have far, far more than 3 cards they could have done this:
11 cards in the program. The first given for free. getting 8k pxp (enough for P5) in MLB or GBL stadiums gets you 10% towards the porgram. p5 10 specific cards, without using user created stadiums and being able to play the main offline modes. Thats extreme, but not unreasonable.

Here is an example of a mini season approach to encourage higher difficulty play: stacking rewards
Win 20 regular season and 6 post season games on rookie or above: 5 points
Do the same on All Star: 5 points
Hall of Fame: 10 points
Legend 20 points plus a profile icon

So to win 26 games on Legend gets 40 points
But on rookie gets you 5. All Star, which is the closest to a normal difficulty, gets 10 points
So you can start at a higher difficulty, and once you lose a few games you can bump it down.

Completing a mini season 10 times for one card (ok, 9 times since you may get the pxp twice along the way) is absolutely "extreme" is it not?

@xRatedGProdigyx_PSN said in Ways to Save Extreme:

1 - I'd love to know what percentage of the player base that attempts this does this because they truly enjoy it / want to do it as opposed to just feeling that they must in order to retrieve a card for online play / collection purposes.

To be fair, I think this could be extended to a lot of content beyond extreme. I think for many (not me), the mini season cards would fall under this as an example

The thing with difficult content though, players that enjoy it seem to be more likely to do it for fun. A big example are extreme moments, never required but there is always discussion about them.

And the extreme moments in the regular programs are great for getting people to try harder content without feeling like they have to do it. Ive completed quite a few this year myself. The extreme miniseasons in past years were kind of like that too. The Showdown and conquest throws you up against the hardest difficulty after you have sunk some time in it and if you fail you are screwed. This is not the way to get people to push themselves.

Honestly, the foam finger idea is fine. It could be one foam finger for 25% of progress to the program.

Having just one of these is pretty extreme in its own right, I cant imagine more than like .1% of the playerbase would have 4 of these

@icebergslim7669_PSN said in Ways to Save Extreme:

I wasn’t directing my post at anyone in particular, i never said they couldn’t add vouchers on legend, i was just responding to the people that are saying that it is too hard and should be easier, it is called extreme and should be just that, too many people saying i looked at it and it looks too hard before attempting it, you only fail yourself when you don’t even try.

People are just asking it to be comparable to the last two years. I don't understand why anyone has their panties in a twist over this request.

I assume Pirates GM gets 29 calls a day "We know you arent going to pay him so lets work out a deal"

@x-814-x-MAFIA-x_PSN said in Ways to Save Extreme:

Sone of you just want stuff handed to you.

Almost nobody wants this, and it disingenuous to say thats what people are asking for. So knock off that [censored].

There is an in between between play at difficulty levels that many consider unfun (and may be impossible for some) and play for 400 hours

And that in between existed in recent years