Sorry, but I do not want it like it was before the hotfix.
Before the hotfix, you needed to use all kinds of (I would call it exploits) to get what you want. Like steal from everybody or kill merchants to get your things back and have one char with max steal and another with max barter and so on.
I guess, most people who complain that the game is too easy are the ones who have played through the alpha 100 times. I think games should be designed around a new players, and those will not know all tricks to get max money or max exp. Classic mode is the normal difficulty after all, there will be harder difficulty levels in the final game and I do not care if they tripple the prizes for items and the number of enemies in the highest difficulty level (because I will not play it, at least not the first time).
So it feels a bit strange to me, that some people exploit every mechanic the game has and they know how to get max exp and money and then they complain that the game is too easy in normal mode. But I guess that is the purpose of an alpha. Players find all kinds of exploits and the devs fix them before the game is released. I just made a suggestion how to change merchants in another thread.

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