I love the game, but why the fuck do you have to block cheat engine? I hate developers who don't let players play how they want, as it is usually them just going out of their way to be a dick
All cheat codes can be used only Quick Game... why long story... trophies, profiles, moviestatats would make no sense when if cheat modes were enabled in all games modes... and that is the reason that exists different game modes... to support different play styles.
Update: From edition 2020 cheat codes can be used also by donators (Bronze level) in Party Mode.
Agreed. This is an ongoing trend where devs connect career modes in games to an online leaderboard/trophy system where your progress and stats are compared against other players. Essentially, it has become an 'online' career mode. I don't care about trophies and leaderboards online with other people playing. The true 'offline' career mode experience is a dying breed. The solution would be to have both an online career mode with trophies/stats and an offline career mode where cheats and experimentation can be used to the player's content. Unfortunately, the offline game modes are being scratched in favor of online modes where you're constantly being compared with other players and unable to use cheats as a result. Not everyone wants to be online... bring offline back - and no, i'm not talking about party mode or quick mode or any of that bs. Rant over.
Could you explain me what is the point to use cheats in Career Mode in a way how this mode is designed in Movie Business?
The games in old days were created to compete... where no online mode where possible Hall of Fame or Top Scores was the way to make competition (to beat your best score - so compete with yourself). Career is some kind of challenge. There is no point to use there cheat codes as this is against the main design purpose of these mode.
Let me explain briefly the modes in Movie Business.
Quick Game - this is sandbox where you can do whatever you want all cheat codes are enabled. No online stats so no need to compete. The only restriction is shorter game time (as there is no point to make it longer as cheat codes are enabled and game algorithms will not survive the strategies to fill up cash every round (as some players do).
Party Game - here you can choose if you want to play with standard approach (without cheat codes) and your films will be exported to MovieStats service. Or (if you are Donator) you will use cheat codes and your result will be no exported.
Career Mode - these mode is for those who want to have some challenge. No cheat codes allowed as this is against the principle of this mode. You just check you skills in the game.
So as you can see Movie Business provides different type of game for different player... whatever is your style you should be able to find something for you.
And the most important thing. The online stats is not only for player... it is for creators. To check how games behave in different situations, is there any problem with balance, which strategies works and which do not work. It is just big data to analyse to make game better.
This is very important for the game development especially such as Movie Business created by one person after hours... who do not have test division to test all possible scenarios.
Please note that this is quite unique project... you will not find hundreds games like Movie Business (I am not talking about tycoons in general but about games about movie creation) and even commercial one do not have a lot of features which you can find here...
Games like this in the old days were not designed the same way as this current trend. Hollywood Mogul always gave you the freedom to set up your career save the way you wanted. I'm also guessing you never used 'motherlode' in The Sims, huh? It exists to this day. The point is that not everyone who plays 'tycoon' style games wants to compete in an online leaderboard. Thanks for your non-answer though. Your free to make the game as you want. We're just giving a different viewpoint. Thank you.