The German player remains anonymous but he reveals that his earnings has been made only by trading troughout the last three years. The cap has also been confirmed by a game master, although the SK leader Andreas "bds" Thorstensson had a little bit more details on this random number:
"Why is this random figure the gold cap? Because they most likely store the data in a 32 bit signed integer, which has a maximum size of 2147483647. So the actual cap could potentially be 214748 gold, 36 silver and 47 copper, or they use that last byte for something else."
A screenshot of the game master conversation (in German) and his gold can be found here.
Original Post (German WoW Forums)
Source: Nihilum
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WoW Gold Limit Reached by a Player

Most people struggle to farm gold for their epic mounts, enchants and such, however a player on the German realms has managed to reach the gold limit in World of Warcraft - 214,748 Gold 36 Silver and 46 Copper.
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it was worth wasting shit lots of time earning all that gold?
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imo, those news about 24/7 freaks are not interesting
(plz dont ban me for this post)
together we stand against the wow nerds!!1111 :D
Thats a one of a kind chinese farmer haha
I play WoW since 3 years and I play wow as a trade simulation mainly, because it gives me great pleasure.
Looks like that was quite an effective way of earning gold o_O
Gotta be when going around with Arcane Powder and rune of teleportation ^^
I honestly know a lot more addicted CS/Wc3 players than WoW players :/.
in the end of the talk with the gm , the gm says : have a nice day "TYRAM"
The ability to read is only for the privilaged.
Since his nickname is not secret due to the GM conversation people have posted the armory link to his profile. The dude was, for fun, wearing full T3 plus 2 BT rings and the staff from Illidan. So he definetly is a hardcore player as a whole.
But the gold part alone? Yes it takes a lot of time to reach this astonishing amount, but it also requires a lot of cleverness since he made his money by being active seller / buyer on the auction house. And once you reach a certain point, which would be at least over 10.000G, you start to get the "power" to control a certain product in the AH, buy all available offers and put them all in again for a higher price.
So why many of you just grind BGs all day or spend the evening different, that guy might have spend some hours at the AH.
He is hardcore overall, with raiding and trading, yes. But just the trading.... well thats what makes the game enjoyable for him. So he just spends his time different imo,
Good Job
And for all those oh so "haha no lifers", guess you don't have an epic mount yet do you? :)
ITS OVER NINE THOUSAND!
Tyram. It might just be a random german word, but it might be his name. Any german that care to comment? The Armory seems down so I can't check myself either.
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(Dunno if the links to the pictures work)
He was really kind and answered all my questions.
http://eu.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Sen%27jin&n=Tyram
That's his main character.
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Didn't work :P
I hope this works.
Anyways he got 300k g in his bank and is aiming for a million g before he quits.
If the guy has great marketing skills, buying stuff from Auctionhouse for a small price, and selling it for a bigger price. You can make tons of money, without spending 24/7 after your pc.
that the screenshot, was on the realm "blood legion"