[From solid 5/5 star to 3.8/5 star] Its been very clear to me that READERS dont like MCs who are slave to their golden finger, asking mc for such a steep price and MC having no way than to comply literally gutted the story for me. MC gave up 2 OP skill to use this loophole and shoul've been allowed. Also, if he broke the rule, removing his access to merchant shop for a fix amount of time like a month or year or increasing the time limit of shop would've punishiment enough instead of turning him into system slave. The way merchant forced him with physical punsihment and literally ripping out a core skill from him shows what is given can be taken away in a whim. God forbid mc break any of the merchant rule in the future and he'd end up cripple with all the skill, experience and strength taken from him. What do you call it if not system slave?!
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LIKEI can see the point but this bring us to the same problem, it was author lack of planning and plot development leading him to write himself into the corner. It's kinda like a bait and switch, since alot of the reader were hooked because of his unique power and now he want to nerft to make the plot better which means this is no longer the story we signed up for.
Fair enough, though I got to disagree since I'm mainly here for the interesting setting and the pretty decent writting (most the fanfic out there has terrible grammar and weird character interactions). BTW, any other fanfic recommendations? Oh, and side note, I kinda dislike this type of gatcha power as a whole: I've seen too many fanfics go up in smoke trying to incorporate powers from other series.
Nonetheless, I'm pretty sure I'm in the minority when considering the number of people complaining about this issue.