system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
[Mass Effect] Why are there only a few variations of each weapon in ME2 whereas there are dozens in ME1?

I know the switch from overheating to thermal clips must have bought changes but come on, in ME1 every single one-room hut had at least five shotguns in a malfunctioning cupboard.
gpt
You know how after a while all the cheap rebranded chine-er, Batarian knockoffs start to look alike? Shepherd learnt to spot the knockoffs more easily.

Not being a sucker, he now spends the extra money he would on buying authentic weapons (instead of those he found) on extended warranties for his shiny gun collection. This is why money is easier to find - he stopped spending a few bucks on replacing every weapon with an authentic one. His doctor, who moonlights as a weapons world clerk making bank from the extended warranties, tells him this is much healthier.