fizzbizz said:
Good to see someone bringing up NV.
NCR currency and legion denars were fake currency, in that they were just valuable items available for barter. The actual currency was bottlecaps. In barter you could always pay with caps.
Having three actual separate currencies would be a chore to manage.
I'm sure you all remember running from shopkeeper to shopkeeper to get the stuff you need? Double that by introducing currency exchange points. Cue players fast-travelling to the other side of the continent to buy stuff because it's more convenient than paying the exchange fee.
This is a mechanic for economy-oriented games. Think Guild or Anno series. Witcher is not about banking.
Thank you for sharing your opinion!
Many people have pointed out the possibility of multi-currency or economy being something...bad, and the risk of it being becoming a chore or hassle. Granted, Witcher is not about banking, or building castles or merchant fleets, stock markets, owning land, taxing poor farmers, or squeezing merchants for all they got.
But then again some of the Witcher world is strictly haggling business.
I pointed out all this before: Geralt is a business man. In the books or in the games, he haggles for best prices, and sometimes comments on people and how they try to swindle him. But he does business indeed, and dreads the day he won't have any witcher work, becoming obsolete.
Hell, Geralt can haggle with anyone: widows with restless late husbands, kings with cursed hellion daughters, and sorceresses with delicate power problems, and as much as many of them want, they can't disregard a witcher for hire.
They are dwindling in number you know.
Posting this topic with poll I never even considered the devs(or anyone on this forum) to believe me wanting some sort of advanced management aspect, better suited for economy-oriented games.
HOWEVER: in a melting pot-like world like the one that will be featured in Witcher 3, with a wide area of bordering countries, with Nilfgaard closing in, and Novigrad as a main big city in the world, having the Temerian Oren as the only currency would be very unbelievable. Take it from me, and I've only read two books besides playing the games. In Novigrad, it would have taken much before people would mainly deal in Orens only. They have the Novigrad Crown see.
Even in a game with magic, slyzards, and Griggs, I would go as far as to call it unrelealistic if the Oren is the only currency in the world.
With that said, I'm all for it to be a player choice, as all things ought to be. And I will gladly accept whatever the devs decide to do. I just wanted to help.
Thinking of juggling with currencies a bother? It doesn't have to be. It may even be on automatic. Just select the 'Don't want to bother with different currency' option before starting a new game.