In reaction about this topic I created shortly after release of chapter 2 Andy replied, that “as he understands it”, it was intended and mistake was only in update notes after release. Those multiple statements that removing merchants is (and was) intended are only about 22 hours old.

As I see it, originally it was not intended, because in the notes there was no mention about obolus being useless for this chapter, nor anything about merchants being intentionally gone, but quite the opossite:

There was simple and straight mention about vendors selling any items by choice now. This whole “it was intended apporach” appeared just right after people started to complain about this change, which was not anounced in any way. Of course I get the fact, that it’s more convenient stating, that problem was only in the update notes, rather than admitting something just went seriously wrong in the actual gameplay. This is just my opinion tho. :slight_smile:

So yep, no - I am not gonna apologize for believing statement mistakes and confusion about something devs just did not do correctly, not even when after the overall chaos about this case changed their statements. :slight_smile: I am gonna edit and update the main text tho.

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