Baldur's Gate 3's latest community debate: is it cheating to pickpocket your own money back in RPGs?
The Baldur's Gate 3 community has gathered round a cheat sheet prepared by one player advocating for newcomers to "unlearn what video games have taught you" in preparation for Larian's latest, unbelievably reactive RPG. The post is a fun read about the logic of CRPGs, but I'm honestly most interested in a side debate that's broken out over one question: is it cheating to buy something and then pickpocket your money right back?
Post author MaralDesa notes that while many "games have taught you 'this does not work,'" Baldur's Gate 3 comes from a line of RPGs that embrace absurd and unlikely methods and outcomes. In particular, they point out that you can "buy an expensive item, then pickpocket your money back." This isn't an unprecedented move for games like this, but this particular bit of skullduggery is still clearly controversial.
To the surprise of no one, plenty of players wholly embrace this sticky-fingered self-refund. Redditor lemoncake90 says that "during my first [Divinity: Original Sin 2] gameplay, my mind was blown with the amount of possibilities! Now, in every Larian game, I'm already looking for different ways to do absolutely everything, especially stealing from all the merchants I just bought from."
Oppositely, folks like Choubidouu have drawn a firm line against this. "Probably the only thing I don't like about DOS2, and I'll not like either in Baldur's Gate 3," they say. "It just feels like a cheat to me, abusing the AI stupidity."
Stealing from NPCs, no matter the circumstances, obviously isn't cheating in the literal sense. It's something you can do within the established rules and systems of Baldur's Gate 3, so it's technically legit. The subject of debate is whether it's a cheesy, unhealthily
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