The Executive - Movie Industry Tycoon News

Dear Movie Executives,
Thanks again to everyone who submitted bug reports on our Discord and shared their logs and saves with us. It helped us tremendously.

Here is today’s patch content:

[h3]Bug Fixes[/h3]

• Bug with proposed release date:
  In some rare occasions, players were able to select a release date before the end of the post production, which would leave the movie in a non released state forever. The issue has been fixed
  
• Bug with Self Marketing sometimes corrupting the game:
  The issue was due to an overflow error corrupting the game and saves made after the error occurred. The issues has been fixed
  
• Experimental corrupted save fix:
  We’ve implemented a fix to repair saves corrupted by the bug mentioned above. Please note that the movie which triggered the corruption will not earn any revenue. If the repair is successful, pressing play will display all the box office screens in a row for the movies that were affected by the corruption.

[h3]Balancing[/h3]

• Tweeked the shiny premium 3rd party distributors config.
  It should be more obvious now that they are the best choice.
  

PS: The endless mode still needs a bit more cooking but rest assured that we are committed to deliver it to you as soon as possible
Thank you again for your patience and your support, while we work hard to give you the great experience you deserve playing The Executive.

The Dev Team

Dear Players,

First and foremost, we want to extend a heartfelt apology to everyone who experienced issues with cloud saves. We are gamers ourselves, so we fully understand how frustrating and disheartening it can be to lose progress after investing hours into the game. We have taken this issue very seriously, and after extensive investigation, we can now confidently say that the cloud save issue should be resolved.

This launch has been rougher than expected, and we deeply appreciate your patience and support as we worked to address these issues. Your time and dedication to The Executive mean the world to us, and we’re committed to ensuring the best experience possible moving forward.

[h3]Bug Fixes & Improvements[/h3]

• Cloud Save – Cloud saves are now working properly, preventing loss of progress.
  
• Cash Display – Fixed a bug that caused cash values to be missing on non-standard resolutions.
  
• Large Office Unlock – Resolved an issue that prevented the large office from being unlocked.
  
• Endgame Reel – Resolved the issue that locked the timeline when a player had too many highlights within a year
  
• Endgame Reel – Fixed a bug that prevented the classic and cult movies icons from being properly displayed in the timeline
  
• Endgame Reel – Improved the timeline flow for a smoother experience.
  
• Staff "Ecstatic" icon – Fixed a bug that prevented the icon from being properly displayed
  
• Asian Fonts – The texts should now be properly displayed in the research window when running the game in Korean, Chinese or Japanese
  
• Ancillaries – Avocado and soda scores were swapped in ancillary movie items
  

[h3]Balancing[/h3]

• Training RP Cost per month: Some players missed that training employee drains RP every month and were struggling to gain RP. Until we improve the UX to make it clearer, we significantly reduced the training RP costs.
  
• Loans: 2 loans options are now available during bankruptcy at every difficulty levels.
  

[h3]Visual Tweaks[/h3]

• Billions abbreviation updated to G instead of B
  
• Fixed the couple genre icon missing in competitors movies
  
• ... And more to come!
  

[h3]Quality-of-Life[/h3]

• Added a warning to notify players when the game is nearing its conclusion... (Good news: we're hard at work on the highly requested Endless Mode. Stay tuned—it’s coming soon!)
  

[h2]Endless Mode – We Hear You![/h2]
We’ve also heard loud and clear the overwhelming demand for an Endless Mode—and we’re excited to say that we’re all hands on deck to make it happen as soon as possible! Stay tuned for updates, as we can’t wait to bring this much-requested feature to life.
Thank you for being part of The Executive. Your passion and feedback drive us forward, and we’re excited for what’s ahead!

The Development Team

Hello everyone!

Thomas here, we'd like to communicate with you about the launch itself, and more importantly what's to expect from now on!

Firstly, we of course want to thank you all about your interest in the game. You've been a lot of people making your own movies and hitting the top of the charts! You've been a lot to leave kind words about the game and it is really heartwarming, so thank you again

Now, we also know that there's been things that are bothering you, or that you would want to be added to the game, and I wanted to update you on this. Note that this is about short term, and that we'll communicate later on further things that will come for The Executive. So here we go!

[h3]Broken saves[/h3]
Some of you have reported broken saves. This is now fixed and should not require you to update the game. Just to be sure, if you opened Steam before 1pm CET, you can reboot Steam. As the fix was a change to Steam configuration for our game, it might be necessary
The be a bit more transparent with you, our Cloud save system was limited in size, and this limit was set too low, making the save system weird/not working at all past this limit.
We've now increased this limit to a point that I'd be very surprise you reach (that is the maximum authorized by the way, so please don't take that as a challenge :D)

We know this is a pretty big issue and that save issues are the most frustrating ones, so we want to deeply apologize for this. During our tests, we restart a lot of saves and thus had most of the time pretty light (or at least, light enough) saves for this not to happen during the tests.
Once again, we're sorry about this, and this should now be fixed

[h3]Money not being displayed[/h3]
This will require a smallest amount of word ; there's an issue with the money not being correctly displayed on bigger screens. We've foudn the issue and this will be fixed in the next patch, that should be coming very soon. We'll keep you posted!

[h3]Other bugs[/h3]
We're also aware of other bugs that you've reported on the forums or by mail -thanks again for this!- and we're working on it. Some of them (as much as possible!) might also be in the first patch, but since we're still investigating, I'd rather not make any promise ; you'll be able to check what's been fixed in the patchnote coming with the update. For exemple the end game screen getting frozen on the first years of the summary is also getting investigated as we speak, we'll do our best to plug the fix in the patch!

[h3]Speaking of End Game[/h3]
This is the last thing we wanted to communicate ; we've seen all your feedback (I do think it is the main feedback about the game) about the ending being abrupt, and a bit deceiptive
We'll be adding an endless mode to The Executive!
Now as you might guess, adding this kind of feature does take time, as it wasn't really planned. I won't give you any specific date as a lot of things can happen when you're developping things, but I still want to give you a general idea.
So while this is subject to change, we'd love to have it out in a couple of weeks. After fixing the nasty bugs that remains, it's going to be the top priority!

Also, in case you want to communicate more directly with the dev team, know that there's a Discord server for the game!
From me and the whole dev team, thanks again for all your feedback, and for playing The Executive!

The Executive is now officially released with a 10% launch discount!

🎥 Produce your dream movies
🔥 Tackle production challenges
🏗️ Build your empire
…And much more!

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We’re thrilled to finally let you get your hands on it! We’re incredibly proud of this project, and after your feedback on the demo, we can’t wait to hear your thoughts on the full game!

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Have fun, and see you on the red carpet! ✨

Hi future movie makers,

We’ve got some exciting news we couldn’t wait to share: The Executive will launch on February 11th!

Soon, you’ll be able to produce your dream movies, hire top-tier talents, and grow your studio to build your empire. But be warned—movie production can be unpredictable... Hollywood isn’t always glamorous!

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The base price for The Executive will be $14.99 | 14.99€, with a 10% launch discount for two weeks.
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