will it be possible to upgrade editions?

[Arlojmikk]

i see that you will be able to buy the season pass separately, but will you be able to buy the art book and soundtrack separately, or will it be an "upgrade to ultimate edition" thing.

[Arlojmikk]

bumping this because i want an answer......

[Nick]

it's usually a "yes" but it will ask time. How much time? Depends on a ton of things so... nobody can tell that.

[Arlojmikk]

Originally posted by Nick:

it's usually a "yes" but it will ask time. How much time? Depends on a ton of things so... nobody can tell that.

what do you mean by "it will ask time"

[Josh Winters]

if you want the items in the higher editions, why not refund and then buy the higher edition

[Nick]

Originally posted by Arlojmikk:

what do you mean by "it will ask time"

Answering this is messy... I will try.
Let's assume the game is a terrible success at launch. Funcom has their pokets puking coins so they will focus on DLCs development to fill the "season pass" with no worries. They won't need more founds so they won't poke Steam to promote the product better. Any offer, special price or whatever won't be needed. So getting what you still miss will ask time as they won't send out offers on your "missing" items so soon. Could be even 8 months/1 year.
Let's now assume the game is a terrible failure at launch. Funcom has not even a coin left in their pockets as mainly everybody asked for refunds and they have to pay server mainteinance, taxes, bills and even fulfill the season pass even if the founds won't cover the effort. May be that due to this reasons they will push Steam to promote the product insistently to recover enough founds to at least fulfill the season pass thing. This, may be, will make offers spring out like mushrooms after the rain, giving you the options to get your full edition step by step. be sure that this won't happen earlier then 2 or 3 months from launch anyway.
Mind that both those scenarios could not happen, nor as described above nor having the thought consequences.
So now the question is: how long can you wait?

-LOL I kinda like building up all those if/then things... It reminds me of programming with basic. Damn I'm old.

[Arlojmikk]

Originally posted by Josh Winters:

if you want the items in the higher editions, why not refund and then buy the higher edition

I haven't bought the game. im just curious. and im considering getting one of the cheaper editions and then possibly buying the OST and artbook if i enjoy it and it grips me

[Neoramza]

So I was gifted the base edition of Dune as a birthday present from one of my gaming buds and now i'd like to upgrade to get some of the extra goodies. It would seem upgrading editions is not available as my only option in checkout is to buy another copy, in which the system alerts me that I will not receive an additional copy, but still proceeds to charge me the full price. The only way is to refund (which will go back to my bud due to steam refund rules) and then purchase myself (taking away from the gift) or be more of an a$$ and tell him I don't want the base edition I want higher (which i'm not doing because I don't return gifts). In this case, I would really like to be able to upgrade. Maybe someone from the Dune team will read this and turn on the upgrade option?

[Arlojmikk]

Originally posted by Neoramza:

So I was gifted the base edition of Dune as a birthday present from one of my gaming buds and now i'd like to upgrade to get some of the extra goodies. It would seem upgrading editions is not available as my only option in checkout is to buy another copy, in which the system alerts me that I will not receive an additional copy, but still proceeds to charge me the full price. The only way is to refund (which will go back to my bud due to steam refund rules) and then purchase myself (taking away from the gift) or be more of an a$$ and tell him I don't want the base edition I want higher (which i'm not doing because I don't return gifts). In this case, I would really like to be able to upgrade. Maybe someone from the Dune team will read this and turn on the upgrade option?

It's more likely that the options to upgrade, if they exist, will be later. but the DLCs will be available as a seperate purchase with the season pass thing

But yeah your issue is more of a social thing, the best thing to do would be to say to your friend "hey man im going to refund this game because i want to get a higher edition"
And then you can negotiate and ask if he can send you money equal to the cost of the normal edition of the game. just my thoughts on that matter

[Nick]

Originally posted by Neoramza:

So I was gifted the base edition of Dune as a birthday present from one of my gaming buds and now i'd like to upgrade to get some of the extra goodies. It would seem upgrading editions is not available as my only option in checkout is to buy another copy, in which the system alerts me that I will not receive an additional copy, but still proceeds to charge me the full price. The only way is to refund (which will go back to my bud due to steam refund rules) and then purchase myself (taking away from the gift) or be more of an a$$ and tell him I don't want the base edition I want higher (which i'm not doing because I don't return gifts). In this case, I would really like to be able to upgrade. Maybe someone from the Dune team will read this and turn on the upgrade option?

With the base game, as for what I know about how Steam and Games in here work, you can proceed to "upgrade" by buying the DLCs as soon as they are available.
If you wish to have the exclusive content of the "special editions" the only way is refund and buy what you wish the most.
May be there will be a "total superduper full-optional non-plus-ultra definitive" edition but well... that could require quite some time (years?) to pop up.

[De Vilks]

Originally posted by Nick:

-LOL I kinda like building up all those if/then things... It reminds me of programming with basic. Damn I'm old.

I remember programming on Atari 800XL, in basic, which had whopping 64kB of memory. Fun times, when I tried to make text based game with a lot of ifs and thens to present choices, and that memory ran out very fast, and had to butcher narration to actually fit it in the memory.