I will say that reading through this thread is a lot of people having issues for something that they need to think about before they complain. Games are designed to be started, from the beginning. Many people are starting from some save point, which causes tons of issues for games.
* Grind: The dev has made things much better, but a lot of people complaining about grind are not starting from scratch. You are starting from a save point - which means that all the stuff that eliminates "grind" is not helped out the player because they have not benefited from any other changes than what has been implemented after that point in the game. VIP guests help a lot.
* Don't have 15 destiny cards yet? You should have about 10-15 destiny cards when you START from this upgraded version if you have been playing the game right.
* Keep failing to provide service? Are all your people trained and at level 4? If not, keep getting them up. Last update introduced a new character, and you needed to level her up. Again - if you started from scratch - she would not be so far behind as everyone else as she would have come on at level 3.
* The game goes on autopilot once you get VIP for guests. This is a major help so you don't have to answer questions. Get the VIP guests for a level and start raking in the money a bit.
* Remember it is a game - That means spend time to play. If you are looking for a quick fap, this is not it. It is a story, and designed to play processes and random events along the way.
* It takes an extraordinary amount of planning to make one chapter go to the next from a save. You have to plan many months in advance for all things and all possible scenarios. This is a sign of a good dev. If a save can go forward for one-two-three releases, then they are planning ahead. But you should expect to start over every so often. This is almost unavoidable and makes it hard for devs to get creative as if they didn't plan for something six months ago, but would be a wonderful thing to add to the game, they are handcuffed from adding to the game to keep "saves" working properly.
The only thing I am confused at is why I am having problems with video. I read though the thread and found out yeah - disable the video player, and it works. I just wonder why all of a sudden I have to do this. My rig, while old, is not antiquated, and never had a problem playing stuff before (even previous versions of this game). Yes it is windows 7 (I have a MSDN license or the OS, so cannot free upgrade to 10, and fuck if I'm paying for 10 on another rig, I have six PCs) but there have never been any problems playing any games with my current video card.
Anyways - Enjoy the morning.