Apparently yes, you can have too much gold in World of Warcraft [WoW]

And 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 and yet there have been 2 players recently to hit that number and prove it via screenshots which can be found here and right over here.

Why 214,748 etc etc?

According to some (non-Blizzard) programmers in the official WoW forums:

It is the limit it makes perfect sense, gold is measured in copper and the copper limit is 2147483648, or as you saw in the picture 214748 gold 36 silver 48 copper. (picture had a little less)

This is 2 to the power of 31, which is an signed int32 basically + or - 2,147,483,647, but honestly because this value is used for money they really sure of used an unsigned int and effectively raised the gold cap to 4,294,967,296 copper without changing space requirements.

It is not optimized coding, but honestly most coders would of done the same thing because we are used to using int32 which is signed by default. But now that a legitimate player has actually reached the gold cap, I would imagine that they will revisit the code and change it to an unsigned int32.

Welcome to computer programming have a nice day.

Sure… but yes, that’s enough money to buy 43 people epic flying mounts.