Long story short: Looting should not consist of collecting brown bags. This way the player kind of gets forced into 'getting to know the lore' ( which - I admit - also adds some problems for those player who just dont feel like collecting information about monsters is fun. So, what I suggest would be some sort of 'harvesting'-skill, so the player has to learn about monsters and can only use specific parts from the monster he just killed if he has the knowledge about it. I'm specifically not talking about 'looting' because its not that the ingredients are carried in a brown bag by the monster, right ? For those of us a little bit deeper into 'the witcher' it's clear that specific monsters are used for specific things, therefor it should be clear that those monsters CAN and have to be 'HARVESTED'. I also could think of another way regarding 'looting'. That way you don't need those 'bags' - and yes, they really destroy the feeling you get playing that awesome game. Meanwhile, Rodrigo's corpse was decomposing horribly, to such an extent that the face turned. So a 'new' approach could be to automatically loot anything (from corpses, not regarding herbs and so on) since the player has to craft anyway. the servants were already looting the pontiff's rooms. the final boss monster from such event buried under all the player, pet and monster corpses) or if you open it another player cuts it or uses necro skill on. It's the crafting that need to be done with the items you looted before. The problem for me is the overhelming amount of stuff to loot in some of the monsters (take the recent EM events) and the fact, that I cannot always find the corpse in the first step (i.e. But the looting itself doesn't provide that edge per se. I totally approve with that and accept it. For one, to give people who DO LOOT their victims a slight edge over those who don't. There definitely are some reasons for that.

So, why is the player still 'forced' to manually loot at all ?

We all are RPG-player so I guess everyone knows 'you take anything you see, and if your inventory is full you either sell or drop something'. Actually, I dont see the point in 'looting' and 'inventory-limitations' at all.

Someone is already looting that corpse