214k World of Warcraft Gold Limit
Posted on January 19, 2008
Filed Under World of Warcraft
Here my jaw still stuck in the jaw dropped position of someone being able to afford the Ashes of Alar mount for 190k gold. You can only image my surprise now to find out that World of Warcraft does indeed have a limit.
Apparently that amount is 214,748 gold, 36 silver, 48 copper. After you reach that lofty sum, you’ll no longer be able to receive money from any source in the game.
According to Wow Insider, the limit wasn’t hit by not just one person, but two people recently. Screen shots can be found here, and here. You would have thought a post like this would have come up sooner if people already had 190k gold on Chinese servers. Obviously Gold farmers wouldn’t want to advertise on their characters about how much gold they have on their characters for fear of getting banned.
What’s the significance of the number? From a programming perspective it is a pretty common signed integer value. Meaning that whoever programmed that part of the game never thought that this value would have been reached. I guess its something that will have to either be adjusted in the upcoming patch notes, or these wealthy WoW characters are going to have to shuffle their fortunes around on their alts.
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214748 gold… or a life…
Tough decision hahaha
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214k World of Warcraft Gold Limit : Money News
When Blizzard programmers for the game World of Warcraft created the game, I don’t think they ever thought that someone would be able to amass a large quantity of gold in the realm of 214,000 gold. Considering that the most expensive item that requir…
Ashes of Al’ar is a world drop and they bought it?
The maximum comes from the binary limit of a 32bits interger variable:
2147483646 is 1111111111111111111111111111110 in binary
2 more copper and your total monney would be… 0!
Not to say this isn’t the most amazing and absurd thing ever… but anyone who has been on a private wow server knows the gold limit. Some of those realms have mobs that are impossible to beat without hacking and using GM spells. But also drop 10k gold so its quite easy to reach above the max gold.
That’s a boss drop. Where would you buy it other than paying someone 190k gold for their account?
He doesn’t really have that much. There is a command that you can put in the game that will visually change the amount of gold you see but in reality nothing had changed.
ME WANTS IT, THE PRECIOUS!!!! ME WANTS THE PRECIOUS!!!
*cough*gollum*cough*
You say the limits are 36 silver and 48 copper, but screenshot 2 shows 89 copper.