When I preordered I wasn’t keen on dropping $100 to get started playing BDO without knowing if I’d even like it. But I do! So, is it possible to pay $50 to upgrade my deluxe edition to ultimate? Someone told me contacting the Microsoft Store might be a good idea.

8 hours ago, NumberTenOx said:

When I preordered I wasn’t keen on dropping $100 to get started playing BDO without knowing if I’d even like it. But I do! So, is it possible to pay $50 to upgrade my deluxe edition to ultimate? Someone told me contacting the Microsoft Store might be a good idea.

Unlikely you can just pay the difference. It's seems the community ad a whole, has had no problems getting a refund from Microsoft for whatever reasons. Do that, and get the upgrade. 

Edit :I'm not sure though, you'd be double dipping on some exclusive content? Unless PA retroactively takes away the deluxe bonus stuff. 

Thinking on the same vein... What if you bought a lower package initially and then bought a higher package on the same account. You would be paying for the game twice (extra $10) but would you receive a second copy of the pets, horses, additional pearls and value pack days, etc? Would this allow you to keep the characters you created and just add the extra stuff instead of starting from scratch or spending a lot more money on pearls to buy the things included in the higher package?

I happened to go for just the base game because $10 is a low entry fee for a game that looking interesting but that you don't know if you will actually like it. Also, never having played the PC version, I didn't know what any of the items included with any larger package were or what benefit/value they would have. But now, a week in, I would not mind the Ultimate Edition as it actually contains over $200 worth of goods (if buying separately from the Pearl Store) that would be of great benefit.

11 minutes ago, Cacciatore said:

Thinking on the same vein... What if you bought a lower package initially and then bought a higher package on the same account. You would be paying for the game twice (extra $10) but would you receive a second copy of the pets, horses, additional pearls and value pack days, etc? Would this allow you to keep the characters you created and just add the extra stuff instead of starting from scratch or spending a lot more money on pearls to buy the things included in the higher package?

I happened to go for just the base game because $10 is a low entry fee for a game that looking interesting but that you don't know if you will actually like it. Also, never having played the PC version, I didn't know what any of the items included with any larger package were or what benefit/value they would have. But now, a week in, I would not mind the Ultimate Edition as it actually contains over $200 worth of goods (if buying separately from the Pearl Store) that would be of great benefit.

Actually a great question. Buy the $10 version, then decide...you know what, i’m gonna get the Ultimate edition now for my same MS gamertag. Will that work? Save progress, characters, just give you the items in the Ultimate edition?

 Hey, can you track this question down? 

Found this snippet under the ‘Buy Now’ on the official website. Link

“1 of each package” - To me that means I can buy the base, standard, deluxe, and ultimate. That’s one of each.

Please Note

• All items from the packages will be sent to your in-game mailbox.
• Only 1 of each package can be bought per account.

22 minutes ago, Uberkull said:

Found this snippet under the ‘Buy Now’ on the official website. Link

“1 of each package” - To me that means I can buy the base, standard, deluxe, and ultimate. That’s one of each.

Please Note

• All items from the packages will be sent to your in-game mailbox.
• Only 1 of each package can be bought per account.

Thank you for finding that.

That does make sense as you can only buy/own one copy of a game on a Microsoft account unless you are sending as gift. I only have the base game and my 7-day Value Pack expires tomorrow, so I might as well give it a try and see what happens. Worst case, I ask Microsoft for a refund of the higher package if I don't get the items from it in my in-game mailbox.

I shall report back whether or not it works. Since I only have the base game I won't be able to comment right away about doubling of items, but at least we will be that much more sure it is possible.

You can definitely do it, I have Standard and Ultimate Edition

6 hours ago, captainmydude said:

You can definitely do it, I have Standard and Ultimate Edition

Did you already have characters made on the standard edition, then bought the Ultimate and those bonus items were in your mail for your existing characters?

On 3/16/2019 at 7:08 AM, Uberkull said:

Did you already have characters made on the standard edition, then bought the Ultimate and those bonus items were in your mail for your existing characters?

Yeah im curious, does that mean you could have bought ultimate, get your items,get refund, purchase $10 version of game... 

Unfortunately there is no way you can upgrade your packages. The only thing you can do is just purchase the edition that you want or buy the items separately with Pearls in the Pearl Shop. 

14 minutes ago, CM Valencia said:

Unfortunately there is no way you can upgrade your packages. The only thing you can do is just purchase the edition that you want or buy the items separately with Pearls in the Pearl Shop. 

But the way your website reads, I can buy the Standard and the Deluxe and the Ultimate edtion. 3 purchases.

So...if i start with Standard, create a character, retrieve the items from the mail...then buy deluxe a week later...do we get the items from from that package too?

Please? Note

• All items from the packages will be sent to your in-game mailbox.
• Only 1 of each pac?kage? can be b?ought per accou?nt.

On ?3?/?16?/?2019 at 2:08 PM, Uberkull said:

Did you already have characters made on the standard edition, then bought the Ultimate and those bonus items were in your mail for your existing characters?

No I already had ultimate edition, then bought standard after and yes everything goes to the mail

1 hour ago, Jacs said:

Yeah im curious, does that mean you could have bought ultimate, get your items,get refund, purchase $10 version of game... 

No of course you can't do that

5 minutes ago, captainmydude said:

No of course you can't do that

So what your saying is they either manually remove OR delete your account and it's subsequent data when you get a refund. I was speaking hypothetically of course in what you quoted. I'm not some cheap sob who isnt willing to shell out $$ for a game I enjoy. 

I can confirm that you can buy different versions of the game (once each version) and you will receive all the contents. For the standard edition, $29.99 version, you will be getting exactly your money worth (pet, 30 day value pack, 500 pearls) as you are missing out on the $10 for the game itself. For the deluxe you are getting about $20 extra and for the ultimate you are getting about $60 extra.