In the fantasy MMORPG Guild Wars 2, a player has reached the gold cap. And it was lower than he thought.
Numerix had big goals. He wanted to amass 1 million gold in Guild Wars 2. But the journey to Scrooge McDuck-like wealth ended much earlier.
At 200,000 gold, it was already over, as he reported on reddit. So that is the gold cap of Guild Wars 2. As with many other games, nothing significant happens once the target is reached – no achievement, no title, no rain of gold falls on the player.
The first comment on reddit from a Nigerian prince promising Numerix to loosen the gold cap if he could just provide 1000 gold as compensation. And if you can no longer trust Nigerian princes – who can you trust?
By the way, it was also impossible in WoW for a long time to reach one million gold on a character. At 999,999 it was over, as I remember from my time as an auction house junkie. However, the cap is now higher:
