Moo Deng Fandom Sends Hippo Minion Prices Soaring In Final Fantasy XIV
In case you have by some means missed it, the web’s new obsession is Moo Deng, an lovable pygmy hippo calf from the Khao Kheow Open Zoo in Thailand. After taking up social media, Moo Deng fandom has now hit MMO Ultimate Fantasy 14, the place in-game costs for the sport’s hippo calf minion are hitting new extremes.
As picked up by GamesRadar, X consumer Cerulean posted a screenshot of a market-board seek for the hippo calf, displaying that costs for the minion had jumped from 17,400 gil in early September to virtually 300,000 gil by the top of the month.
Sq. Enix have even gotten in on the enjoyable, posting a gif of the hippo calf in a scene harking back to the Khao Kheow Zoo’s viral movies of Moo Deng.
The hippo calf was added with the Endwalker enlargement in 2021, and may be looted on the finish of the extent 85 Vanaspati dungeon–however, the lovable aquatic minion has very low drop charges, which has resulted in excessive costs in the marketplace board. The typical value of the minion previous to Moo Deng’s rise to stardom tended to be round 40,000 gil, relying on the server.
It is not typically {that a} minion from a previous enlargement explodes in reputation like this, but it surely’s doubtless the Vanaspati dungeon goes to see much more clears than regular over the following few weeks earlier than Moo Deng fever is inevitably changed by the following viral fad.
