In-game currency.. What value do you place?

[Snapjojo]

In-game currency.. What value do you place?

This is just a fun little thread to discuss what role we, as a community, want the in-game currency to take. How important do you want it to be? I want currency to actually take a reasonable part in the game rather than be something you never even think about as you are swimming in excess money. Given the fact that monster hunting quests and bounties are a large part of the story of Geralt and of the Witcher 3, I am not too worried and believe that our wonderful developers will give proper value to the in-game currency system. I'd still like to know what you guys think!

 

[Garrison72]

Witchers don't get to swim in excess money and the previous games reflected this. They had notoriously strict economies. However, in TW3 we'll have more ways to make money so I think getting rich will be a bit easier.

 

[Riven-Twain]

They've mentioned the fish market once or twice, so I imagine we will see a brisk bit of herring trade. We may just have to change the title to The Fisher III: Wild Hake.

 

[Scholdarr.452]

Getting rich should be impossible imo.

 

[EliHarel]

I hope they found that magical way of keeping us poor but still allowing a fun progression in items.

I think it was that recent YouTube video where the guy said "if you would've told me it's on 360 I wouldn't have been surprised," that he also mentioned there was a lot of loot. Instinctively, not a fan - but I'll have to wait and see how they did it.

 

[Lieste]

I liked the mood of "52 and a half". Don't really want to feel that I ever have "enough" money ~ at least unless I raid the accounts at Vivaldi's. - There might still be a little of what was saved during the stay in Beuclair.

 

[dragonbird]

I don't like having to scrabble around too much to get cash for basic necessities in a game, but I also don't want TW3 to give you reasons to feel you need to put in effort to get rich. If a player wants to spend a fortune getting new equipment (which is probably the biggest single reason you would need a lot of money), fine, but the natural balance of the game should still be to "make do" - cheaper upgrades, looted equipment.

It was very easy to get rich in TW1 - just invest a little money in the books that give you the high-value alchemical loot from monsters, sell them off to Kalkstein or whoever else is buying, and you can easily get much more money than you'll ever need. TW2 needed you to grind or farm to get rich, but it wasn't really necessary, so it was still OK. I'd like TW3 to follow that route.

I've seen some interviews suggesting that it may be possible to trade to financial advantage - different prices in different places. It's fine for those players who want to play that way, but personally, I'm hoping to avoid it.

 

[Scryar]

I hope I will be permanently out of money. I want to be forced to spent every crown I earn on potions/food/better weapons and armor/ enhancements etc. I want to look forward for the next monster hunting contract just because I need the money.I want the "true" witcher feeling with Geralt being permanently broke. Unfortunately we don't have to spent all our money for food/alcohol/shelter like books Geralts (still hoping for a survival mode dlc for this), that's why I'm happy that at least we will have to spent gold on weapon repair. Hopefully there are more gold sinks.

 

[Ljesnjanin]

I hope I will be permanently out of money. I want to be forced to spent every crown I earn on potions/food/better weapons and armor/ enhancements etc. I want to look forward for the next monster hunting contract just because I need the money.I want the "true" witcher feeling with Geralt being permanently broke.

This.

 

[wichat]

This.

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[Sephira]

I want the "true" witcher feeling with Geralt being permanently broke. Unfortunately we don't have to spent all our money for food/alcohol/shelter like books Geralts (still hoping for a survival mode dlc for this), that's why I'm happy that at least we will have to spent gold on weapon repair. Hopefully there are more gold sinks.

How about paying a visit to Cianfanelli bank at Toussaint? :hmmm:

Spoiler

Hoping he remembers how much money he saved there, lol

 

[Ljesnjanin]

How about paying a visit to Cianfanelli bank at Toussaint?

Anna Henrietta confiscated it, perhaps?

 

[Sephira]

Anna Henrietta confiscated it, perhaps?

I hope she didn't

Spoiler: Minor (really) spoiler from 7th book

After all he took some money when he went back there to buy clothes with...you know, and she also forgave Dandelion

Anyway, years have passed, who know what could have happened meanwhile...
About the poll I voted for the first option. I remember being so damn poor in W2, while I made a ton of money playing dice poker, clearing also old Foltest pockets

 

[JGPlisken]

I voted the second one but I don't really care overall.

Mods, save games, and save game editors..

 

[Yurtex]

Anna Henrietta confiscated it, perhaps?

If he was considered dead, and had no successor, then it probably already in some one else hands.

 

[Riven-Twain]

I wonder if Vivaldi's bank is ever going to collect the interest on that little loan from act II in Assassins of Kings. (In Vergen, if you sided with Jorveth, and helped Vivaldi in the first Witcher.)

 

[shawn_kh]

I want to work hard for the money that I earn.
For example hunting a pack of drowners should earn the players very little money, and hunting difficult monsters that need preparation should be the main source of income.
I want to have to hunt down difficult and dangerous monsters in order to make decent money. I don't want preparation to be optional, and I want to not have a chance of succeeding, if I go to kill a monster unprepared. I want hunting monsters to become a necessary process that takes time and effort. You ask around and question the locals, read books, follow the monster's tracks and learn it's habits and behaviors in order to decide when, where, and how to confront it, you find it's weaknesses, you have to hunt for especial and rare ingredients in order to brew a potion, you have to hunt for other ingredients to make sword oils, you have to prepare traps, you have to repair and improve your swords and armor, and finally you set off to kill the monster expecting that you are able to put up a fight before getting killed. These steps should determine the difference between life and death. I want to face a proper challenge when fighting the monsters even when I am completely prepared, and by that I do not mean making the game difficult by annoying the players The encounters should require the player's skill and attention and not just button smashing.
Unfortunately I never felt obligated to take potions, use oils on my swords, set up traps, and invest my money in new swords and armors in WItcher 1 and 2, and I have beat both games on the hardest difficulty. The only time that I felt encouraged to use a potion was the Osmurk potion before the Kayran fight.
If earning the money takes effort and time, then players think twice before spending it on whores and booze. Instead they invest the money on better swords and armors in order to survive the next encounter. I want that uncomfortable feeling on the back of my head after spending my money on whores and booze instead of an armor, that tells me you are ploughed when you meet the next monster.

 

[Bellator Pius Gratus]

This is just a fun little thread to discuss what role we, as a community, want the in-game currency to take. How important do you want it to be? I want currency to actually take a reasonable part in the game rather than be something you never even think about as you are swimming in excess money. Given the fact that monster hunting quests and bounties are a large part of the story of Geralt and of the Witcher 3, I am not too worried and believe that our wonderful developers will give proper value to the in-game currency system. I'd still like to know what you guys think!

Great thread and poll OP! ^_^

I really love seeing this discussion!

This is just my two lonely orens in soon-to-be-empty purse, but Geralt couldn't hold on to coin even if it was resting on the back of a Kayran. Or a dragon. Seriously, he's notoriously poor, and yet he's cashed in on monster hunter contracts no one else managed to succeed with, let alone survive. He ought to be swimming in coins yet he never is.

In the few books I've read, and in games, the startout is always the same: Geralt is in want of money.

Once again, I haven't read all books, but I do remember one time he's been investing in gems. Ergo he can actually hold on to money, if it's important, only to send them to help someone else. In that particular case he wanted Nenneke to give them to Yennefer.

And if I may, I started a discussion about currency a while back. : There are many good posts there:

http://forums.cdprojektred.com/threads/20998-Currency-in-Witcher-3(Orens-or-Crowns)

Also Császár(why can't I link to his profile!!!??) started a topic before my time:http://forums.cdprojektred.com/threads/21743-Witcher-3-Currency

As we have gotten confirmation of banks in Novigrad, we will have to wait and see what function these banks really have. I hope they're just not for show. I vote for functional Banks!

I wouldn't mind cashing in contracts...only to see coins disappear because of exuberant prices. Hell, make it a hate thing with some idiot merchants, just because Geralt is Geralt(scorn and superstition against the Witcher Man).

And as always, however we want to play and go about this particular matter, make it a player choice victory. ^_^

 

[Aes Sídhe]

I really love seeing this discussion!

Well, you might want to sit down for this bit of info...

http://www.gamer.ru/the-witcher-3-wild-hunt/lichno-ya-delal-vse-kvesty-dlya-prologa-intervyu-s-yakubom-shamavekom-stsenaristom-cd-projekt-red-2

Three types of currencies, the opportunity to take out a bank loan

Remember to breathe BPG !

 

[mecha_fish]

Well, you might want to sit down for this bit of info...

I did a little dance in my chair tbh.