Cataclysm’s Possible New Gold Cap

World of Warcraft - New Cataclysm Gold Cap?

When it comes to rumors, nothing is
more interesting than the impact that a new expansion pack will have on
the in-game economy. Right now, we have a new development brewing due to
a couple of rather vague blue posts in response to some forum
questions. While this is all speculation, anytime a game developer
comments on something like the gold cap with a big fat “maybe” we know
they are probably considering making a change. So, what would the shift
in the gold cap actually mean? Let’s take a look.

The Current
Gold Cap

The current gold cap is 214,748 gold, 36 silver and 47 copper.
It’s a number that has nothing to do with the game, rather is a cap on
the programming language used to calculate the gold. So, there is no
real reason for the cap other than memory usage which is a much smaller
issue than when they were developing the game 6 years ago. But, very few
players have reached the gold cap, so why would they need to raise it
any higher than that?

Reasons for a Higher Gold Cap

First off,
the gold cap has become an attainable goal in recent months. There are
guide products being sold that tout being able to hit it, players have
made videos, and some players even claim to have hit the gold cap on
multiple characters. The volume of gold you can make per hour makes it
all very feasible.

But, who needs more than 200,000 gold?
To start with, Cataclysm could introduce new gold sinks that are far
beyond what we already have. Remember the responses to news that
Mammoths would cost 20,000 gold in Wrath? Players were freaking out. How
would they make that much gold? It turned out it wasn’t that hard after
all, but it was a huge increase from TBC to WotLK in terms of earning
rates. The cap for players in TBC was around 250 gold an hour at the
most. In WoTLK, players can make upwards of 800+ gold an hour by farming
and even more if they hit the auction house.

So, yes the
gold cap could easily be raised and if Blizzard is okay with a higher
limit for currency holdings, it very well might. Inflation is an
expected side effect of the new economy now, but we’ll have to see what
happens when it finally hits.

For now, we can all keep trying for the
current gold cap.

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