X360--merchants have unlimited gold? Options

[earwicker7]

I'm having a weird issue with the X360 version of the game. The merchants never have any gold removed from their coffers when they purchase my equipment. I can have a merchant start with 800 gold, and when the merchant has purchased 500 gold worth of equipment from me, he still has 800 gold. I know some people (cough... cheaters... cough!) might find this to be a good thing, but I hate it. In my opinion, the fact that you sometimes have to hunt for a person who can afford to buy your stuff is much more immersive than someone who has endless gold.

Has anyone else had this problem, and if so, were you able to get around it? I've filled out a support request from Bethesda, so hopefully they may have some advice.

[Ola Martin]

Are you sure it's a bug?
I don't think so, if a merchant have 800g to buy for he probably can only buy stuff for less than 800g, but he can buy just as much as he want to.

This post has been edited by Ola Martin: Mar 26 2006, 12:01 AM

[jchamber]

Are you sure it's a bug?
I don't think so, if a merchant have 800g to buy for he probably can only buy stuff for less than 800g, but he can buy just as much as he want to.

one way to test this would be to find a way to buy one of those like 5000g enchanted items and try to sell it to the 800 golded merchant. I can't play the game at my house, where I am. Other wise I would test it myself, so someone should try it.....also...

I agree I liked having to find the merchants with lots of gold or having to sell loot to three different merchants on a good haul.
I hope there will be a mod/patch to fix this, elsewise I will have to keep track of how much I sell to every merchant every time I go selling, so as to keep that restriction on myself.