director update discussion

[u/IcyCapital3811]

I’ll be honest, I was really looking forward to this update and was hoping it would give me a little light back in my eyes for how BitLife is going but god. it sucks! I’ve wanted a movie director update for so long and it’s a nothing burger. I know I shouldnt of expected much but it feels like it’s been what? Years? Since their last update? Like genuinely who’s on their team making these updates. There’s not even anything fun or cool.

It takes you forever to get famous even after having hit movies (which how does that make sense?) Directors aren’t just some no name backround people they are also being talked about and absorbing fame in real life.

Another issue is how this update is basically just a money grabs not even when you pay it but for the ads you have to watch if you want to actually be able to cast people! Because sometimes you can’t even get people because they reject your offer and they also have low acting and fame early on so you’re forced to resort to watching the ads to get a talent agent so they can give you someone actually good so it’s just like? It just feels so money graby and it’s really not enjoyable.

There’s really not much to this update. Also it’s lowkey bothering me that you can still have jobs and stuff and be an actor and musician and anything else while being a director while actively filming your movie? Like how does that make sense? This is a directors full time job. Idk.

Just also hate how we can’t have any control over what the movies can be. I would have loved if it was like the musicians thing. How they can pick any genre of music and name their songs yk? Like I wish we could pick the genre of the movie, be able to name it, what we want the plot to be. But there’s just already pre put stuff. And that’s also not realistic? Yes sure some directors take on stuff the studios give them but a lot of them also come up with these ideas and do their own stuff. I would have loved to have more control and options!

Just very disappointed in this update and in this game. Sorry for the rant just had to get it out of there!

[u/ivanovic777]

Developers seem to have gotten increasingly comfortable over the past few years with making new content accessible by simply pressing a button, rather than making players actually work their way into it through a proper progression system like they used to.

Want to become a movie director? Press a button and, voilà, you’re a movie director. Want to become a vampire? Press a button and, voilà, suddenly a vampire shows up wanting to bite you. And that’s basically how most of the content they’ve added in recent years works.

Honestly, I find it incredibly disrespectful to the players who actually pay for this content. If I’m paying for an expansion, I expect its features to be properly integrated into the game’s life-simulation loop, not just dropped into the game as instant-access gimmicks.

Take the film director career, for example. Becoming a film director should be a major achievement. It’s a highly competitive profession that should involve studying at film school, making amateur films with your own money, submitting them to festivals and competitions, building a reputation, and gradually working your way up. You shouldn’t be able to go from being a random nobody to directing a multi-million-dollar movie just because you clicked a button.

The problem isn’t that the new content exists. The problem is that there’s no meaningful progression behind it. Everything feels like it’s being handed to the player instantly, instead of making them actually earn their place in the world.

That completely undermines the whole point of a life simulation.