World of Warcraft Gold Limit Reached, It's 2^31

Mitch writes "Blizzard apparently used signed integers for their World of Warcraft gold values as some people have recently hit the limit of 2^31. "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. While some responses to the original posts claim that this exact limit had previously been theorized to exist, there have been no reports of anyone in the game actually achieving this amount via legal means." I guess Blizzard didn't expect anyone to ever get close to that much gold in game."

Duh

[hcdejong]

2^31 should be enough for anyone...

News for nerds, stuff that matters

[Anonymous Coward]

Somehow I think only 'News for nerds' apply for this one.

Could be worse

[Metasquares]

It could have rolled over :)

having it all...

[Anonymous Coward]

All your gold are belong to us.

Civilization I

[blind biker]

Reminds me of when I was using a hex editor to "help myseslf" to some extra gold in Civilization I - I remember I could only up my gold to 3000 pieces, that was the Civ Is upper limit. Very off-putting, when you have to leave the game and start the hex editor just to replenish your reserves!

How short-sighted of Sid ;o)

Damn co-ops/interns

[Bentov]

Programming error or intern. Maybe it's an internal flag that it's time to get the ball rolling on WOW II. But wait, with that much gold, and the current price of it, they could sell it, and actually move OUT of the mom's basement and get a place of their own. ...

Re:Get a life

[Anonymous Coward]

Dude, I'm sure he didn't mean to hurt you. Take it easy.

Re:What the point of having gold...

[Anonymous Coward]

They should let people transfer it over to Second Life or something.

This is good!

[unbug]

At least it means there won't be a "Who wants to be a millionaire" in WOW.

Re:Fiat money causes inflation in WoW?

[unbug]

Are there any online games that have a relatively fixed amount of money in the game?

The stock market?

Re:Get a life

[BrentH]

Euh.... get a life?

Re:Get a life

[Aardpig]

Well said, you fat bastard!

Re:Get a life

[gEvil (beta)]

If you think WoW is better than making babies then you clearly need to get out more.

What kind of person...

[dominious]

Blizzard Exec #2: What kind of person would do this?
Blizzard Exec #1: Only one kind... Whoever this person is, he has played world of warcraft nearly ever hour, of every day, for the past year and a half. Gentlemen we are dealing with someone here who has absolutely no life.

I don't get it

[bvimo]

What is the War of Worldcraft thing? I've seen it mentioned here a few times, but nobody actually explains what it does.

Is it a book?

Re:Get a life

[Anonymous Coward]

clearly you've never played a gnome...

Re:So, how does one accumulate that much gold?

[nomadic]

On three level 70s and one level 61, I still have trouble breaking 3,000 gold between them. How does one get that much gold together in the first place?

It's called the Wal-Mart strategy; buy it cheap from China.

Re:This is good!

[Midnight Thunder]

At least it means there won't be a "Who wants to be a millionaire" in WOW.

Instead there will be "Who wants t be a 2^31aire". I am not sure which is worse.

Re:What kind of person...

[Slashdot Suxxors]

But how do you kill something that has no life?

Umm

[Anonymous Coward]

Ok guys, who wants to break him the news that babies aren't delivered by storks....

Ron Paul!

[Mateo_LeFou]

As the good doctor never gets tired of pointing out, the problem with World of Warcraft currency is its artificial manipulation by the Federal Orlock reserve. This is why I support RP in his longshot bid for WoW sysadmin.

Re:Get a life

[wdavies]

Trouble is, you have to keep the baby afterwards. If you think WOW= No Life, try living with a 3 month old :)

Puts a crimp in ya gaming, let me tell you that.

Re:Umm

[Anonymous Coward]

i know someone who will buy your baby for 214,748 gold

Mom! Bathroom, bathroom!

[r_jensen11]

Did anyone else immediately think of the Southpark episode? I immediately thought of Cartman shouting "Mom! Bathroom! Bathroom!" with Mrs. Cartman running down the basement stairs with a bedpan.

Kids are overrated

[uuxququex]

I'm a parent of a 1 year old boy. Let me tell you that I'd rather be gaming (or anything, really) than change his diaper or try to keep some food in him while he thinks it's funny to spit it through the whole room. Having a kid changes your life drastically.

If I fully realized the impact of kids on my life, I would never have had him. I'd cut off my dick with rusty scissors first.

Not kidding, either.

Re:Umm

[Tony Hoyle]

Well yeah, it's illegal for a start...

Re:Duh

[smittyoneeach]

Bah. Just go floating point. Only WoWses are afraid of exponents. Think how non-Progressive we would be in reality if our national debt were saddled by such limitations, instead of being allowed to blossom and spread, kudzu-like, until nothing less than an arbitrary-precision library can manage the vast expanse of non-wealth.

Re:Get a life

[an.echte.trilingue]

Oh, WoW is surely not better than sex, but it certainly is better than making babies.

Will WoW take care of you when you are old?

Re:Duh

[Jim Hall]

Using a signed int for the score isn't a new thing - I know that gamers have experimented with this limit on other games. On one of their podcasts, Insomniac Games mentioned a gamer who had succeeded in rolling the number of bolts in 'Ratchet & Clank' to be negative, and then none of the vendors would sell him anything.

Here's a video of someone doing just that [youtube.com] in 'Going Commando'.

Re:Umm

[Dun Malg]

Ob: None of you guys are parents, are you? I have a 2-year old son, and yeah, kids are expensive, and you lose sleep. but I wouldn't trade him for anything in the world

Bah! That's just your biological programming telling you to protect the next iteration of your genes. The rest of us can see that the little monster is just a stinky, screaming terror that that you think the rest of us should go out of our way to protect!

Now, my precious little spawn, she's important...

Re:Get a life

[Dun Malg]

In pre-WoW days, you were probably one of those D&D fags we used to beat on at lunch. Clearly it left an "impression" on you! LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111111111

Bwahahaha! And you're that former high school football player driving a forklift at the WalMart distribution warehouse for $12/hr at age 40, while I'm working for Google! Who's laughing NOW?

Re:Get a life

[Gewalt]

If you think WoW is better than making babies then you clearly need to get out more.

My wife is willing to engage in recreational procreation for a MAXIMUM of one hour a day, three weeks a month (no, I've never actually achieved the theoretical maximum monthly score... but I sure as hell try).

That still leaves another 323 hours a month, assuming 6 hours of sleep a day and an 8 hour job.

GNA

[Anonymous Coward]

You can brake the habbit! Joyn Gremmer Nazy's Anonimouse today! Inn just 3 weaks yule never have to worri about that brain itch that cums from watchyng totyl ideots butcher the engrish wangwage!

Re:Fiat money causes inflation in WoW?

[billcopc]

That's precisely why it's flawed.

There's only so much wealth in the world. Wealth is not "created", it merely exchanges hands. Sure, the dollar amount increases, that's called inflation. We don't have more resources just because some redneck is selling more weapons, or some trendy douche is making thinner laptops. They have more and we have less - the net result is zero. Not zero dollars, zero global gain.

Re:So, how does one accumulate that much gold?

[MBGMorden]

Of course, it's work, and I don't do it too much I prefer my WIFE, and my RL toys. They blow away a naked night elf and a steam tonk controller any day!

We get it. You're married. You get laid occasionally.

Every geek who gets some for some reason always feels the need to broadcast it every chance they get.

News story: Russian scientist figures way to make food from air and feed starving children everywhere.

Response: Yeah I like to eat food with my WIFE. And sometimes, when going to the store with my WIFE, we buy food. And then occasionally we go home and I eat this food with my WIFE. And then she touch my pee-pee.

Re:Get a life

[Hognoxious]

I met my GF, and the woman I plan to spend my life with, thru WoW

How do you prevent them getting jealous of each other?

Get off my lawn

[labnet]

In my day a signed int only went to 2^15, and 2^31 was a signed long.... and you better had a good excuse for using one of those.

Re:Duh

[gad_zuki!]

>2^31 should be enough for anyone...

Ironically, the player has 0 gold in retirement, 0 gold in savings, and 0 income since he's been fired from calling in sick from the 'wow virus' a few too many times. Here's hoping he can sell that gold for a tidy sum.

Hmm, whats the exchange rate for tht? After a little googling for bulk rates and a little messy math I'd say this guy is sitting on anything between 12 to 18,000 dollars. Not bad if can actually turn into dollars with all this competition for WoW gold sales.

Re:So, how does one accumulate that much gold?

[Onetus]

I pity your bitter lonely life.

At least that's what my wife tells me to do.

Re:Duh

[LoverOfJoy]

It'd be funny if it reset to zero after reached that amount.