Have they done something with broken trading system?

[Scarlet E.]

In original Fable, trading with merchants was utterly broken, making gold completely useless. Having just a handful pieces of something, like food, potions, later perfumes and gems, you could buy out all of hoardable items that vendor have, then sold them for more - because he don't have any of them anymore.
Now, without even cancelling trade, you buy out all items of this kind again - because now he have many of them, he will sell them for less, only to buy them for more from you later and give you pure profit.

You repeat it few times with food, ending up buying out everything the seller have AND extra profit and along your adventure you keep getting more and more. At the beginning of the game you can easily gain thousands of gold, even more later on, after gaining thousands of different food, hundreds of potions, gems etc.

This was totally broken - you literally buy out anything you can, because why not? You just need to repeat buy-sell cycle few times and you will be able to buy whatever item you currently need. Or want. You can afford for even most expensive things at the beginning of the game, just by buying out stuff of few vendors and by repeating the process.

What's more - after getting some skills, this was giving you a nice amount of yellow experience points, which you could easily farm up this way.


This was one of the fun killers in original Fable, making gold useless and allowing you to hoard and buy out immense number of anything without any difficulty, making it to act as free exp in meantime.

Did they fixed it in Fable Anniversary?

Please, tell me that they fixed it =(

[flclafi]

They added a mode called Heroic that gets rid of that trading exploit, but on normal mode it still exists.