'What're You Buying?' The Resident Evil 4 Remake Merchant Is Now 3 Trillion in Debt After 3 Years

Capcom's superb Resident Evil 4 Remake is celebrating its 3rd anniversary, but there's 1 idiosyncratic who won't beryllium celebrating: the game's infamous merchant, who players person near much than 3 trillion successful debt.

In an authoritative station connected societal media to people the game's 3rd birthday, developer Capcom revealed immoderate authoritative stats for each transactions made by the merchant crossed each transcript of the crippled to date.

Over the past 3 years, the merchant has sold 39,914,290,699,099 ptas worthy of cogwheel (ptas present referencing the aged Spanish currency of pesetas). That's a batch of bought cogwheel (over 39 trillion's worth!) and yet... the merchant is inactive successful the red.

Since launch, players person simultaneously besides sold 43,251,570,618,389 ptas worthy of worldly to the merchant (over 43 trillion!). That's a batch of elegant crowns, masks and butterfly lamps. Tally those 2 figures unneurotic and it's bully quality for players, but atrocious quality for the merchant: who is present 3.34 trillion successful arrears.

Just arsenic successful the archetypal Resident Evil 4, the remake allows you to flog each sorts of treasures and trinkets to the merchant successful speech for limb upgrades and rocket launchers that tin one-hit KO astir bosses. These outgo 160,000 ptas per one-use launcher, making them thing you request to prevention up for.

Resident Evil 4's merchant remains 1 of the game's best-loved features, with his mysterious backstory and gravelly catchphrases a halfway representation of the crippled for galore players. "What're you buying, stranger?" you tin ideate him saying now, arsenic helium attempts to lessen his debt. "Not capable cash, stranger?" should possibly beryllium your response.

Sadly, successful the newly-released Resident Evil Requiem, a akin strategy of buying and selling items portion playing arsenic Leon is present handled by a computer. That's advancement for you.

IGN rated Capcom's Resident Evil 4 Remake with a uncommon 10/10 upon its motorboat backmost successful 2023, stating: "Whether you're a instrumentality of the archetypal oregon a newcomer with a hankering for immoderate action-heavy fearfulness of the highest quality, Resident Evil 4 is similar a parasite-riddled Spaniard: a full no-brainer."

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