Main Disc. Thread - Season 4: Into the Wonder [9.28.25]

Lol ETA for this, cause lowkey I am more excited for this than Stark now haha. Ngl it would be dope for New Years for the goals as Ascension sounds perfect for everyone just wanting to better themselves.

I can see your reasoning for wanting it to be an upgrade or not, but why not drop a concept of it and ask the forum? Tbh imo I think there is a huge desire for an ascension upgrade that a lot of people would probably be very happy with the upgrade

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A universal growth sub sounds cool.

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Because it’s one of those things where I’d need a lot of space to explain, and the copy is the best place for that. A colleague of mine, who I consider very wise and has helped me through philosophical issues before told me that this company isn’t here to be popular, we’re here to be relevant.

His advice was to release what we’ve researched and allow the collective to battle over it, use that information to refine later. And if it were any title other than Genesis: Ascension, I’d be fine with that. But again, given that it’s one of the original Subliminal Club titles with A LOT of sales, I’m more inclined to create a more faithful (but possibly trite – since we have SO MANY basic alpha products) upgrade.

But the idea of this title very much fits the idea of a ā€œGenesis: Ascension,ā€ and will position it as the foundational title that all could get benefit from, even if they are capable of tackling much more advanced and difficult titles.

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Nice, I only have 2 questions about this:

-where do I pay?
-where is the download link?

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Well said, your friend is indeed very wise. I will just have to wait and see then lol excited for that one to come out when the time comes.

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Genesis: Foundation

Why not something like ā€œFoundationā€, or ā€œForgeā€ā€¦,

Damn, I hadn’t read your comment and while scrolling down I found out you were faster than me!

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Because it’s not necessarily a ā€œfoundationalā€ title in a manner of speaking. It’s very much something that triggers a form of ā€œAscension.ā€ But of course, that is always the basic solution – I’m just reluctant to add more SKUs. We’re very much dedicated to upgrading the products you’ve already invested in.

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SaintSovereign’s totally unbiased poll regarding Ascension:

  • Ascension as a ANOTHER alpha title that’s faithful to the original but possibly trite af when you could use Emperor
  • Ascension with a remarkable new angle that fulfills the goals of the OG (and probably better at doing so), but different than the original

0 voters

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I don’t own Ascension but my logic is anyone who already owns it and likes it the way it is can always hold on to their current audio file.

That’s what I’m gonna do with KB and Heartsong when they get updates, to me these 2 are just fantastic as they are and whatever update comes I’m holding on to the current versions

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Or can use Emperor. I suspect most people owning Ascension also own Emperor.

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That’s what we were thinking too. Ascension came out in the very beginning, and then we kept making alpha titles and the various spin-offs, putting Ascension in a strange place where just doing a basic faithful upgrade wouldn’t quite be fair to the customers.

… and so another idea we started researching came into view as the solution…

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Do it as a new title since you foresee controversy. Then the people who appreciate it will buy it. I’m always for new SKUs, you guys already give away so much for free.

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Actually yes, this is a good point. Let Emperor be the defacto alpha title, and riff off Ascension in a new direction

If we want a more basic alpha title to toy with/upgrade more faithfully, there’s always Ascended Mogul :rofl:

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(Not owning Ascension, so having no horse in this race.)

There are still an awful lot of titles to be reimagined and while I love the very baroque approach of one concept (alpha) and the main challenge being to find new angles and surprising forms for it, if you got an idea with which a title can stand on its own, it makes IMO sense to take it.

There is overall sometimes a tendency to cheer for new titles in a field of interest, just because it’s for ā€œthe right teamā€, but not because one would use it. (I might be guilty of this too. cough UA cough)

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It’s probably for the better, Emperor, Khan, GLM, upcoming GLM : Commander, and more. We have a lot of choice and flavors for ā€œalphaā€ or ā€œmasculinityā€ titles.

The idea proposed fits Ascension’s title and thematic. I think it’s a good idea.

I always had in mind emperor was a more agressive version of Ascension with money and smart related scripting, mainly in the vein of solo entrepreneur, is this still appropriate to say?

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How would it affect Ascended Mogul? Would you be updating Mogul Simultaneously and still offer Ascended Mogul?

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Nice
Though I don’t see why this couldn’t be the new Ascension but a new title I am not sure what other people would expect from a reworked Ascension. Why changing for the sake of changing.

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Maybe keep the original and then have a special alternate universe twin spin-off of it? :laughing::v:

Everyone happy.

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If you think it will make Ascension better at achieving its obejectives, we trust you guys. We cannot please everyone anyway, and you guys being the creators know more about titles than we do is also another point.

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