In case you’ve got in some way 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 Final Fantasy 14, the place in-game costs for the sport’s hippo calf minion are hitting new extremes.
As picked up by GamesRadar, X person Cerulean posted a screenshot of a market-board search for the hippo calf, displaying that costs for the minion had jumped from 17,400 gil in early September to nearly 300,000 gil by the tip 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 will 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 available on the market board. The common value of the minion previous to Moo Deng’s rise to stardom tended to be round 40,000 gil, relying on the server.
It isn’t typically {that a} minion from a previous enlargement explodes in reputation like this, but it surely’s possible the Vanaspati dungeon goes to see much more clears than normal over the subsequent few weeks earlier than Moo Deng fever is inevitably changed by the subsequent viral fad.