its been combined with speech for the sake of dumbing the game down for the masses. The amount you sell it for its automatically modified like we're some children unable to barter on our own with merchants.
Really? I mean, really?
The bartering system in the older games was just a useless extra step that accomplished nothing aside from making trade take longer. In Morrowind, you could at least say there was some uncertainty and you had to guess how much you could ask for, but in the end, there was a maximum price you could get, and no amount of barter could change it.