doubleofive said:

Will I have my hundreds of thousands of Florins? Cause I've run out of crap to buy and the money keeps coming in.

You only have hundreds of thousands? Pffft....

Yeah, it's another pickle. If you played like me, then you prioritized your (virtual) economy and bought every money making thing you could as soon as you could. You always had no money for the first part of the game, but then eventually you get over the hump and have more money than you know what to do with.

I imagine there are other players who hardly ever spend their money, trying to gain money by saving it (wha???) and therefore don't own any investments. Everything they buy, even late in the game, is expensive and they have to think about money all of the time.

I'm not sure how they could have done it differently so that both play styles could have been fulfilling. Making both play styles possible seems to make both of them broken. *shrug*

To answer your question, the good news (I think) is that you do get to start all over. New wallet, new economy, new things to buy.

To perhaps answer some other questions: there is no save-game based carry-over to ACB. If you never played ACII, you would start with the same story-based carry-over as everyone else. Just like Metroid, you have all of the last game's gear for about 20 minutes and then you start at the bottom to work your way up again.

It's kind of a silly game trope, but I'm not sure that they can do much else.

(Do you go back and get the money from the Villa even though you know there's nothing left to buy? I did. I couldn't help myself.)