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Posted: Jan 18th 2008 5:05PM Daxter1985 said

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They could always send some of there gold to an alt character.
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Posted: Jan 18th 2008 5:08PM (Unverified) said

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True, but they still would theoreticly lose X gil. Unless they transferred a safe amount (like 1/2 thier gil).

What can you do with that much anyways? Can you buy slaves at that point? Seriously who's complaining? Seems like a lot of gil to me.
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Posted: Jan 18th 2008 5:11PM jynxycat said

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This isn't Final Fantasy.
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Posted: Jan 18th 2008 11:10PM Abuzar said

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OR he could sell it on eBay and get a life?
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Posted: Jan 20th 2008 6:02AM (Unverified) said

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Shoot, someone beat me to the "Time to get a life" comment.
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Posted: Jan 18th 2008 5:06PM (Unverified) said

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ONOZE! CALL THE WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMBULANCE!!!!!

-_-

Seriously though, i don't complain when Mario can't get more than 99 Lives, why should you complain when you can't get more than 2 to the power of 31 gil? It's perfectly rational :-P

They will iron it out... eventually.
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Posted: Jan 18th 2008 5:10PM jynxycat said

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They don't have to 'iron it out'.

This is such as astronomical amount in that game, that he's probably the only player out of the 9 million to do so -_-
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Posted: Jan 18th 2008 5:11PM (Unverified) said

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yea, but Mario CAN get princess-crown-coin lives with that one trick.
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Posted: Jan 18th 2008 5:14PM (Unverified) said

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@jynxycat

It only takes one Rotten Apple to spoil the whole orchard. Or something like that.

If they make enough of a fuss, i'm sure Blizzard will do something about it. They're all in to all that pleasing a single group while pissing on everyone else anyways, so they should be game for something like this ;)
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Posted: Jan 18th 2008 7:14PM jynxycat said

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Single group ?

Single player.



:P
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Posted: Jan 18th 2008 5:15PM SpaceGoat said

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I can almost guarantee with won't be "fixed" (and seriously does it need to be?). That number is a stored variable in the game (Long variable if I am not mistaken), and it would not be an easy process to change.
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Posted: Jan 18th 2008 5:19PM (Unverified) said

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There is a way around everything ;)

You could always just eliminate the whole money thing from the game... works for me, hell, why not get rid of WoW all together...

ok, that might not work. But i'm sure there is some work around, after all, it's not like there is a binary reason it wouldn't go higher (1000010100011101001000 is not maxed :P )

Anyways, i don't really care... have fun WoWers
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Posted: Jan 18th 2008 6:49PM arrrgh said

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nono, that would work VERY well. I say they do it. Get rid of WoW altogtether...ancient crap, where's the next gen sequel?
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Posted: Jan 18th 2008 7:58PM conroe64 said

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paragraph, it is maxed out. It's not 1000010100011101001000, it's 1111111111111111111111111111111 (31 1's). It's like the odometer of your car reading 999,999. One more and it's back to zero.
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Posted: Jan 18th 2008 9:25PM Zorink said

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@Tim
They should just restart at 0 then, right?
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Posted: Jan 18th 2008 10:37PM Berzerk said

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it's an unsigned integer.

a long is 64 bits, which is entirely unnecessary.

(1 844 674 407 370 955g 16s 16c)
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Posted: Jan 20th 2008 11:24AM (Unverified) said

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It's a signed integer (-2147483648 to 2147483647). They could easily fix the problem by making it unsigned or changing in to a long (unless there's database problems).
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Posted: Jan 18th 2008 5:15PM mikesanto said

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Not nearly enough. They can only buy flying mount training for 43 characters! And the character limit is 50!

/sarcasm
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Posted: Jan 18th 2008 5:20PM (Unverified) said

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EGADS! ZOINKS! and WOWZORZ! More Monies Please!
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Posted: Jan 18th 2008 5:27PM Macroy said

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Even though I don't play WoW, couldn't they just make more money to pay for the remaining 7 characters?

(Yes, I knew you were joking!)
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Posted: Jan 18th 2008 5:39PM Batzarro The worlds WOrst Detect said

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Don't level up for yourself! Do it for the workers!(waves hammer and and sickle)
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Posted: Jan 18th 2008 5:44PM FredFredrickson said

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Why do I get the impression that here is an inverse relationship between one's proximity to the gold cap in WoW and how active his social life is?
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Posted: Jan 18th 2008 5:48PM zsavior said

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I have no idea how they made that much money. I am serious I can not fathom it. Just to get to 5200 I struggled, I don not know how they made that much money at once.
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Posted: Jan 18th 2008 5:50PM (Unverified) said

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Buy low; sell high.
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Posted: Jan 18th 2008 6:18PM (Unverified) said

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greed is good
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Posted: Jan 18th 2008 5:49PM (Unverified) said

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What's the big deal, can't they just trade their gold in for SOJs or Zods? Problem solved.
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Posted: Jan 18th 2008 7:44PM (Unverified) said

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you win.
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Posted: Jan 18th 2008 6:46PM (Unverified) said

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The 2^32 cap is actually half true ; WoW was built for 32-bits machine, which is what the common folk has (64-bits machine are for studios). 2^32 ; 4294967296 copper. That's 429496 gold, 72 silver, 96 copper. The number in WoWInsider is thus half.
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Posted: Jan 18th 2008 7:23PM (Unverified) said

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Right, this likely means your gold in WoW is stored as a signed 32-bit int. Meaning that it would be possible to store a negative value. Was it possible to go into debt at some point in the game's testing? What are the overdraft fees like in Azeroth? :P
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Posted: Jan 18th 2008 7:19PM jynxycat said

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This relates to signed integers, so it's 2^32-1.
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Posted: Jan 18th 2008 7:20PM GanonSmash said

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Except it's 2^31, not 32.
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Posted: Jan 18th 2008 7:27PM NoNaMo said

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What stumps me is why they are using a SIGNED integer. You can't have negative gold in WoW can you???
Bad coding clearly! As bigcitygas shows, utilising that extra bit would double the max in and shut up those loosers for a while.
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Posted: Jan 19th 2008 12:49AM ThornedVenom said

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All of your theories are valid in a system where you divide the total by zero.
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Posted: Jan 19th 2008 1:21AM (Unverified) said

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no no no no nO NO NO! DO NOT DIVIDE BY ZERO! you canNOT cross the streams!
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Posted: Jan 19th 2008 5:03AM BurntMeatloaf said

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Signed integers? Bit twiddling? 2's compliment cross-analysis? No, no, no... it works like this:

Lead programmer: "2147483647 ought to be enough. I'll just make it easy, use 'int playerMoolah;', and be done with it."

Frankly, I find it amazing that they had the foresight to add an overflow cap in the first place.
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Posted: Jan 18th 2008 6:09PM (Unverified) said

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Nah, let them earn another copper so it resets to 0. >:)
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Posted: Jan 18th 2008 6:06PM BigD145 said

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When you have too much garbage, sell it on ebay.
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Posted: Jan 18th 2008 6:21PM (Unverified) said

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Not that I play WoW, but what is stoping him from solidifying his assets?
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Posted: Jan 18th 2008 6:38PM (Unverified) said

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Two hundred and fourteen thousand gold, and no life whatsoever.

Hmm.
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Posted: Jan 18th 2008 6:39PM Krow said

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Now he or she can buy themselves the time they wasted...
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Posted: Jan 18th 2008 6:40PM blash said

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might this mean that the amount of players in WoW might actually decline? =O

Other than that... seriously what would you do with so much gil? Just sell half of it on eBay and buy another car or something jeez...
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Posted: Jan 18th 2008 6:43PM ThornedVenom said

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"Is a man not entitled to the sweat of his own brow?


No, says the man in Washington, it belongs to the poor.
No, says the man in the Vatican, it belongs to God.
No, says the man in Moscow, it belongs to everyone."



Whatever the case, at least all of that money is over nine thousand.
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Posted: Jan 19th 2008 2:06PM (Unverified) said

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Lol, i was waiting for someone to write that.
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Posted: Jan 18th 2008 8:36PM (Unverified) said

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There may yet be hope for comments on Joystiq. Well played, good sir.
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Posted: Jan 18th 2008 9:02PM The Wicker Man said

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Is 20th level paladin not entitled to gold coins in his purse? NO says the DeathKnight on the frozen throne...
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Posted: Jan 18th 2008 6:45PM (Unverified) said

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Ooooohhhh, OOOOOhhhh are we talking about Progress Quest? Cause I loved that game... And it was way harder than WoW.
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Posted: Jan 18th 2008 7:13PM Lekko said

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Well, to be fair girlfriends do cost a lot of money...
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Posted: Jan 19th 2008 2:31AM SpeeGold said

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I know you're joking but I've heard stories of people actually whoring themselves out for virtual money in WoW. (The money and process of finding a client is virtual, the whoring themselves out is not.)
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Posted: Jan 19th 2008 2:40PM Lekko said

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You just redefined sad for me...

Thank you. *shudder*
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Posted: Jan 18th 2008 7:16PM (Unverified) said

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They should make something above gold. Like have something worth 214,748 gold and see how long it takes someone to max out on those.
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