Why are the prices so incredible high?

[Edw4rd]

There is a quest where I have to kill a huge monster in a cave. The price for this hard task is 250 Orens. This sounds much, but consider that 250 Orens is equivallent to 4 cooked chickens (one costs 70 Orens). How can normal farmers survive whit these high prices?!

[BLiSS]

Most of the time, you can haggle.
When you reach Novigrad, crowns won't be a problem (store armors & swords, so you can sell them to the blacksmiths in the city).

[Edw4rd]

This does not answer the question how poor farmers can survive if everything is extremly expensive. Remember a normal chicken breast costs 70 orens, or a bread costs about 50 Orens if i remember correctly. How can they even survive if even geralt has a hard time?

[CoolingGibbon]

The farmers cultivate their own food, breed their own chickens and then sell them to innkeeps, who in turn cook them and sell them for a profit.

[cald123]

Originally posted by TGF' Unknown:

This does not answer the question how poor farmers can survive if everything is extremly expensive. Remember a normal chicken breast costs 70 orens, or a bread costs about 50 Orens if i remember correctly. How can they even survive if even geralt has a hard time?

I get your point . This is a war time economy especially as far as Velen goes . It is explained quite early that Velen is suffering because the war has stripped the land of it's resources . It stands to reason that prices would be so high . As far as buying food I don't the deserters and bandits I kill usually have enough to get by . I use my money for componets for crafting because sometimes looting doesn't go so well .

[Trjack]

Geralt's pay is a terrible measure. In the books, he's described as poor and hungry due to low pay. In the games, exploiting exploration and loot can get you 30k Florens easily.

[Xarathox]

Originally posted by BuzzardBee:

Originally posted by Trjack:

Geralt's pay is a terrible measure. In the books, he's described as poor and hungry due to low pay. In the games, exploiting exploration and loot can get you 30k Florens easily.

That's part of the reason I was always laughing whenever any of the devs did interviews when the game first came out and they were talking about how poor Geralt is and how he really needs the contracts just to survive day to day. Man, that one line alone proves they never played their own game.

I don't know any game that has ever had a realistic economy. Most items (food, drink, books, etc.) should cost one or two crowns at most, while armor and weapons would range from a dozen crowns up to one hundred, depending on quality and artisan design.

Developers always choose to base their economies off of real world inflation, and it always bothers me.

[Crom]

Economic totaly SUX in Wither 3. Just forget money and enjoy rest of game.

[v0]

Originally posted by zangori:

Economic totaly SUX in Wither 3. Just forget money and enjoy rest of game.

Precisely. There's nothing masterpiece about this part even though there were newspaper articles *praising* sensible economics in TW3 (wtf).

[Clown Fiesta]

Originally posted by TGF' Unknown:

This does not answer the question how poor farmers can survive if everything is extremly expensive. Remember a normal chicken breast costs 70 orens, or a bread costs about 50 Orens if i remember correctly. How can they even survive if even geralt has a hard time?

If you are looking for a historically accurate game................then you are in the wrong section mate.

Look, if the game world is one where vampires/demons are real and there are witches and mutated men who hunt down monsters, you can believe the poor farmers can magically keep themselves from starving.

[TBdog]

There are a lot of issues with this game. The economy is just lazily done. But you can for the most part ignore it.

[Simple Man]

Compared to stuff like Skyrim and Fallout, this economy is a gem glowing in the dark.

You can't make a fortune in 30 seconds by abusing the crafting here. You have to go explore, find goods you might not want/need, find your own crafting materials rather than buy everything in Whiterun, and crafting is actually payed for, in Skyrim the merchant just hands you both the service and the tools, bet they starve too.

The peasants in TW3 seem to be mostly farmers and are often raising chicken, cows, and even fishing. They're self sufficient and probably the ones selling the stock to the merchants in the first place.

[HiSaZuL]

^
Realistic rarely makes for a fun gaming experience. If we had monetary system closer to the lore... Geralt would be somewhere between a beggar and a peasant with barely enough to afford food and booze, forever broke. Doesn't make for a very fun gaming experience tho... Nor would it be fun to have complicated currency transactions... it was interesting enough that they added more then one currency but balancing idea of how much food is worth... when you are buying one egg... ughh... ♥♥♥♥ that.

Also later on, making money in Witcher 3 is just a matter of patience. If someone picks up everything that isn't nailed down to the floor... they will have a ton of money. Yes I looted everything from Novigrad that was possible to loot and not inside invisible barriers or innaccesible... I even looted Nilfgardian Base Camp... and I love just going out and hunting stuff for no reason other then just doing it, so yeah... I had almost a million when I went I started Blood and Wine without ever selling anything that didn't have weight, think I got enough demeritium to make a few tanks.