Can't buy the ultimate edition if you already own the game?

[boogie boy]

Steam doesn't want me to buy the ultimate edition of this game because I already own the game. It's kinda stupid because if I buy all of the add-ons separately if with come out to be more than twice the price of the ultimate edition on sale right now.

I don't understand why Bandai Namco doesn't make a package for the game, to remove certain items if you already own them. It sucks because I really wanted to start the game with all of the new costumes and stuff.

BNE, please fix this, and make packages for games like these.

[TotemMX]

If you dont mind, you can ask Steam Support remove base game, then buy Ultimate Edition.

[Bun]

Remember that Ultimate Edition doesn't include everything. These are:
Pre-Order bonus, Starter Pack, BGM Pack, Relief Support Pack, Growth Boost Pack, Hootle Attachment Pack and SAO Collab.

You can remove the game from your account here:
https://help.steampowered.com/en/wizard/HelpWithGameIssue/?appid=740130&issueid=123&transid=3524654920471217666&line_item=3524654920471217668

If the link doesn't work, click on Tales of Arise in your library > Support.

[Xengre]

It is intentional. They regularly do this for their games with hopes of making you spend significantly more. It's always been a shady practice of Bandai and their often heavily inflated DLC costs.

Try what the other two mentioned as possible solutions.

[no1schmo]

Originally posted by Xengre:

It is intentional. They regularly do this for their games with hopes of making you spend significantly more. It's always been a shady practice of Bandai and their often heavily inflated DLC costs.

Try what the other two mentioned as possible solutions.

It kind of seems like a Steam thing, though, to not just apply whatever DLC is available that you don't have.

[Xengre]

Originally posted by no1schmo:

Originally posted by Xengre:

It is intentional. They regularly do this for their games with hopes of making you spend significantly more. It's always been a shady practice of Bandai and their often heavily inflated DLC costs.

Try what the other two mentioned as possible solutions.

It kind of seems like a Steam thing, though, to not just apply whatever DLC is available that you don't have.

You could be right. I might just be mixing it up with their pricing habits in this situation where they charge individually outrageous values after double checking. Seems this is a consistent issue with Steam, itself, and the pricing issue was Bandai's individual DLC to equal a basic upgrade to higher tier equivalents such as this from Ultimate at $109.99 vs buying basic and individual DLC coming to $124.89... They did same thing with Code Vein and some others I recall. :/

[Sleazus]

It depends on the game, it's not a steam thing.
Some games have ultimate editions as an upgrade or a collected bundle usually slightly discounted