Recently I found a site that kind of shocked me and presented something I didn’t really even think of. In all my time WoW Gold farming I never would have thought of this- Not in a million years.
Blizzard has placed a cap on the amount of gold a single character can have.
Apparently it has something to do with the programming of the game. What really shocked me more than this gold limit was that someone actually made enough gold to see what this limit was. I am surprised that the Chinese WoW Gold Farming community hasn’t found or exposed this yet. So anyways I found on this site, The Warcraft Millionaire a video that shows the guy who has reached the gold cap of:214,748 gold, 36 silver, 48 copper. I am still not sure why this cap happens, or why the programming would allow this. It might say more on the site, but I was too dumbfounded by the video that shows all this gold.
I have seen a lot of gold before. I do a lot of WoW Gold farming, but I have never seen anything like this before. It is absolutley mind boggling.
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It’s 2 raised to the power of 31 in coppers. Basically it’s a limit built into the data type used to store the money for a character.
The data is stored as a 32 bit ‘word’ in the database, with 31 bits describing the positive value, and the 32nd used as a negative indicator.
In other words, if they wanted to allow more money to be used, the database software would have to be re-written.
@CaptainHairy: Thanks for those details! I still find it interesting how that works. I understand that I guess there is no real need to change the program for this small detail, I mean how many people can make that much gold?[aside from The Warcraft Millionaire guy]
While I have never come close to having that much gold, I’m guessing an easy solution would be to transfer some of the gold to another toon on the same account and server. Therefore that cap should never really be too much of an issue.