Pet peeve; games forcing you to specialize through poverty

[dharh]

curl-6 said:

I freaking hate how so many games now will give you, say, three skill trees, but only enough money to max out one of them, or 20 weapons but enough money to buy 12.

It's billed as allowing options and different styles of play, but what it's really doing is taking away options. What if I want to be strong, stealthy, and fast? What if I want to be versatile, and switch up my playstyle on the fly, instead of being locked into playing the whole game sneakily cos the game doesn't give me enough cash to max out everything?

Give me enough money to buy/upgrade everything by the end of my playthrough, please.

This has been going on since like forever. It's just leaking out to other games that are not traditionally role play. Back in the day they just _gave_ you the skills they wanted to give you and you didn't even have a choice in the order you got them. 1st world gaming problems.