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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