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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."
2^31 should be enough for anyone...
Somehow I think only 'News for nerds' apply for this one.
It could have rolled over :)
All your gold are belong to us.
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!
;o)
How short-sighted of Sid
"The agriculture ministry is not in charge of Gundam" - Japanese ministry official.
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. ...
Dude, I'm sure he didn't mean to hurt you. Take it easy.
They should let people transfer it over to Second Life or something.
At least it means there won't be a "Who wants to be a millionaire" in WOW.
Euh.... get a life?
Well said, you fat bastard!
Tubal-Cain smokes the white owl.
If you think WoW is better than making babies then you clearly need to get out more.
This guy's the limit!
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.
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?
In either case, here at Microsoft, we feel standards are important. And we have fun, too. Doug Mahugh, Microsoft
clearly you've never played a gnome...
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.
Ok guys, who wants to break him the news that babies aren't delivered by storks....
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.
My turnips listen for the soft cry of your love
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.
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.
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.
weirdest thing I ever saw: scientology advertising on slashdot.
If a job's not worth doing, it's not worth doing right.
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.
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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.
-Billco, Fnarg.com
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.
"People who think they know everything are very annoying to those of us who do."-Mark Twain
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
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.
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I pity your bitter lonely life.
At least that's what my wife tells me to do.