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The Witcher 3, Money and Immersion

  Once again, emerging forth from my Hobbit-hole of inactivity, I feel compelled to talk about what experiences in video games have sparked my dormant soul to life recently. Well, this year, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt  turns 10 years old and seeing as CD Projekt's other open world action RPG,  Cyberpunk 2077,  managed to grab me so firmly by the balls last year, it felt like an appropriate time for me to go back and play it. (Image property of CD Projekt) I should state, I had played The Witcher 3  before. I made it as far as the Skellige Isles before deciding to take a break and never coming back. My head-canon for that original Geralt is that he just never survived the shipwreck that landed him on Skellige and all hope for the future of the Northern Realms was just dumped on a beach with some driftwood. However, my infidelity with my digital hobbies wasn't what I came to talk about. Rather, I wanted to talk about the way that The Witcher 3  handles money an...