📢 Attention, Executives!

Today's update is a big one! We’re introducing the IP Marketplace, a brand-new feature that expands your creative empire. Plus, we’ve fixed several key bugs and improved overall gameplay. Let's dive in!

Building your own franchise is thrilling, but now, you can take it a step further! With the IP Marketplace, you can acquire the rights to iconic (spoofed) novels, TV shows, video games, and more—transforming them into blockbuster movie franchises.

• Discover 700+ spoofed IPs inspired by renowned cultural franchises.
  
• Explore 6 different media sources: Cartoons, Graphic Novels, Manga/Anime, Novels, TV Shows, and Video Games.
  
• Invest in powerful new IPs – with a catch! The most valuable IPs come with tough conditions. Fail three times, and you lose the IP.

• Movies Stuck in 'Wait for Release': Last week, we fixed an issue where distribution postponements could prevent you from completing movies or cause them to disappear. However some players still had corrupted movies in their save from before the previous patch. This update repairs affected save files, allowing you to resume distribution.
  
• Achievement Unlock Fix: Some players experienced issues unlocking achievements due to a sync problem between save files and the Steam achievement system. Now, every time you load a game, we’ll automatically check and sync your achievements to ensure nothing is missed.
  
• Home Entertainment Deal List UI: The UI displaying available deals was truncated—this has been fixed for better clarity.
  
• Video Game Theme Affinities: Fixed an issue where genre-theme affinities were not working correctly for the Video Game theme.
  
• Financials Date Fix: No more starting your financial records in 1969 while the journey begins in 1970.

• Slimmer Task UI to reduce scrolling when you have multiple movie productions at once.
  
• Clearer feedback on franchise movie size restrictions in pre-production.

• Distribution Postpone: Done ✅
  
• IP Marketplace: Done ✅
  
• More incidents: Localization in progress
  
• Modding Support: In progress

Thank you for your continued support! Your feedback is invaluable, and we’re committed to making The Executive even better. Keep sharing your thoughts, and we’ll keep improving!

🎥 See you on the red carpet! ✨
The Dev Team

📢 Dear Executives!

Today’s update is smaller than planned, as one of our team members was under the weather this week. Unfortunately, this means we have to postpone the IP Marketplace release to next week. We truly wanted to launch it in time for the weekend, but we feel it still needs some quality-of-life improvements to be fully ready. We appreciate your patience and promise it’ll be worth the wait!

• Resuming a movie distribution could lock another movie: Previously, resuming a movie’s distribution while another movie was in production could prevent you from finishing the latter. This issue has now been fixed.
  
• Disappearing movies: If you opened a window during the exact same frame that another movie production window appeared automatically, closing the first window would close both—leaving the movie in limbo. We fixed it!
  
• Firing employees mid-task: It was possible to fire an employee while they were actively working on a task. This is no longer allowed. Now, employees can only be fired if they are idling or working on a passive task.
  
• Achievements triggering too early: Achievements tied to box office milestones were unlocking too soon, spoiling the surprise. This has been fixed!
  
• Missing Movie Titles: a dozen of movie titles were missing in the competitors’ movies database. They are now present.

• Coming Next Week (For Sure This Time!)
  ✅ More Production Incidents
  ✅ IP Marketplace
  
• In Progress
  🛠 Modding Support

Thank you for your continued support—your feedback means everything to us! Keep sharing your thoughts, and we’ll keep improving The Executive! 🎬✨

The Dev Team