History Main / WalletOfHolding

In most modern video games - {{RPG}}s in particular - the principle of MoneyForNothing strongly applies, to the extent that it's not rare to end some games with a cashflow in six or more digits. And several of these games depict money as collectible gold pieces. Tie these together and you have the Wallet of Holding, where a quantity of gold which would in reality amount to several tons (five million 24kt gold coins the size of the British fivepence piece would be over 41,000 kilograms[[note]]90,389.53 pounds[[/note]]) and take up a colossal amount of space (the same amount would cover a football pitch) tucks up nice and neatly into a - [[{{Hammerspace}} completely disconnected part of the inventory]] where money takes up no space or weight.

* VideoGame/EverQuest money has weight; for this reason, a lot of transactions took place near banks because the amounts of money needed for some trades would weigh you down so much that you couldn't move. The banks will also exchange your lower-valued coins for more valuable ones.

** Depending on the edition (and the DungeonMaster, as always) D&D either plays this completely straight or does not, by core rules, support it. By standard, 50 coins weigh a pound. This is regardless whether it's copper, silver, gold, platinum or steel, and whether it's freshly minted, taken from an ancient hoard, or received through wishing magic. At a certain point many players won't bother with cheap copper (unless they have quick access to money exchangers or are just ''that'' greedy). Gems and artwork treasures have a full selling price, so they can work pretty well as a money alternative. Sometimes you may even hold on to particularly expensive weapons and armor simply because they weigh less than the money you'd get for them. (Which makes a certain sense, as the merchant who'd want to buy a +5 lance is also the person who'd be likely to sell the stuff you want to buy.)

** In ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedII'' and ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedBrotherhood'', there is an upper limit to how much money your treasury/bank can hold at any one time, which is a function of the value of your collections/renovations. Any amount earned above that is pocketed by Claudia or the bank. However, there is no upper limit to how much money Ezio can carry on his person. Meaning that Ezio can run around the rooftops of Rome without a sign of encumberment with half a million florins in his pocket while his bank vault is overflowing with a mere 80,000 florins in it.

* ''VideoGame/{{Tibia}}'': Each gold coin weights 0,1 of an in-game ounce and they can only be stacked up to 100 per slot. While slots themselves can be expanded by just stuffing more backpacks inside your backpacks (inside backpacks inside backpacks...) they themselves have weights that imposes limits on how much stuff one can bring back from the hunt. As even VendorTrash grows more lucrative from more difficult enemies, many high-level players don't even bother with picking up mere gold coins, leaving them to rot within the inventories of corpses.

* Money in the Platform/{{Mac}} {{shareware}} RPG ''VideoGame/{{Realmz}}'' had weight, and for this reason it could be exchanged from gold to gems for a fee at any business.[[note]]There was also an even more valuable monetary denomination, jewelry (separate from actual equipment like rings, necklaces and circlets), which could be readily converted to gems or gold, but was only obtainable as loot[[/note]] This was rendered less dire by the introduction of banking, which allowed excess money to be stored at certain businesses, whereupon it could be obtained [[BagOfSharing at any other banking business in the scenario]], but it was still necessary to load up all your net worth [[OldSaveBonus in order to play the same characters in a new scenario]].

* Money in the UsefulNotes/{{Mac}} {{shareware}} RPG ''VideoGame/{{Realmz}}'' had weight, and for this reason it could be exchanged from gold to gems for a fee at any business.[[note]]There was also an even more valuable monetary denomination, jewelry (separate from actual equipment like rings, necklaces and circlets), which could be readily converted to gems or gold, but was only obtainable as loot[[/note]] This was rendered less dire by the introduction of banking, which allowed excess money to be stored at certain businesses, whereupon it could be obtained [[BagOfSharing at any other banking business in the scenario]], but it was still necessary to load up all your net worth [[OldSaveBonus in order to play the same characters in a new scenario]].

-->-- ''The Dungeonomicon''[[note]]Actually, it's not all that unreasonable; 100 Troy pounds of gold works out at about $1,410,000. The rent on it would still just be a handful of coins every month. Quite expensive for a house, but not entirely implausible.[[/note]]

* There is a third party VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas mod [[http://newvegas.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=35270 averting]] the bottomless wallet trope.

* ''VideoGame/{{Fallout|1}}'' and ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 2}}''. In the first one, the currency was Bottle-caps. In the second, there are actually 'coins', represented as physical bits of metal. In both, everything else in your inventory has a measured weight, and your carrying-capacity is limited. In both, your money is entirely weightless.
** Not everything has a weight; there are plenty of items, such as stimpaks, rad-away, beer bottles and buffout drugs that have a zero weight. Which means that at the end of the game, if you have some basic economic acumen, you'll be carrying hundreds of syringe-like stimpaks, dozens of bags of anti-radiation medicine, and maybe a few hundred bottles of beer, all of which take up no weight, and apparently fits neatly in your back pocket or wherever you wear things. Of course, you can also carry five flamethrowers and a minigun without a single bulge in your clothes, so...

*** VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas continues the trend, except the ammo will have some weight in Hardcore mode. However, the updated crafting system leads to some weirdness, like empty syringes having weight, but not the stimpaks you can make from them.

This is usually an [[AntiFrustrationFeatures used as an anti-frustration feature]], unless the game is ''specifically'' trying to keep you from amassing too much wealth at once as part of an AntiGrinding feature. An intermediate solution is the Wallet Upgrade, where there ''is'' a {{cap}} on the amount of money you can collect, but this will be increased one or more times in the game; another one is the InGameBankingServices, where an institution offers players to hold their money.