Because then it cannot be blamed on Larian as dropping the ball or not matching 5E RAW. I mean what fun is that. As I replied to the other poster, this is not an MMO with a player driven economy or an auction house. So nuanced selling of goods is irrelevant. It just seems that lately that some are focusing on the minutiae rather than the game as a whole. I would be comfortable saying that the majority of the playerbase they are targeting could care less either way about some specifically defined currency system. I mean it seems that currency is an afterthought anyways in this game, you can play the EA without even needing to buy anything at the vendors anyways and the majority of the stuff they have besides rez scrolls and health potions is crap (maybe an overpriced green or something).
That is another thing. If they were paying 1g for a spoon or whatever, and a really nice green weapon was say 100g, I would say yeah, it is meaningless. But the price of those green items is so crazy high (heck the price of most things in a vendor is), that you STILL have to save and sell scrap to buy a green weapon for a whopping amount of gold.
I emphatically disagree with this line of thinking. You and others seem to think that "minutiae" like this are insignificant to the game, but as I have tried to point out several times, D&D is not just a combat system. It's a set of rules for worldbuilding that have existed (and evolved) for decades, and throughout that whole time, things like the monetary system we're discussing have been a standard feature. It's part of the DNA of D&D, and while you may feel like it doesn't matter, stripping something like that out diminishes the experience for those who have loved it for so long. And for a game like BG3, something with so much potential, I want as authentic a roleplaying experience as I can get. Yes, it may seem small. But it's the little things that set a great experience apart from a good one. It may not matter to you, but it matters to me.
