That's the largest number that a standard integer in programming can hold. There are a few options, but likely we'll just start displaying 2,000,000,000+

We can also increase the type of integer used to store this data but it goes against the optimizations and the reasons for them. In addition, I'm not sure it signals much beyond that you've got a very, very large shop.

Where is that listed? It just means that it's using the wrong number, instead of the one that is now displayed in your shop.

Please don't assume worst intentions when we make changes. We aren't dismantling anything, and I said in the post that we're still tracking the total number of items sold.

I've just pushed a fix for the about page that should accurately reflect the number of purchases. Again, in the future, please don't assume worst intentions.

I would be happy to do that, except that it's such an easily gamed number. Someone who wanted that for display could just ... pass sP back and forth with a friend at the shop sP cap. I'll run some numbers of converting it to a 64 bit integer, though.

I get that.

If from some point in the future (tomorrow, next week, whenever this change could be made) it started counting above that 2 billion mark, but didn't count old sales above that amount, would you be okay with that? If so, that makes it considerably easier of a change to make.

Updated the stats page to reflect the number of item sales.

Where do you see that, can you link me?