FF14: Attack of the Clones
- Categories: Games, News
- Date: Nov 25, 2010 16:31 JST
- Tags: Business, China, Final Fantasy, MMORPG, PC Gaming, Square Enix
What is left of the Final Fantasy XIV player-base is expressing alarm at the number of gold-farmers now swarming the servers, already depopulated enough as it is.
Players can’t help but notice that a lot of the “players” seen around actually appear to be mass-generated alts or bots, likely for the purpose of generated in-game currency and items which can then be sold at a substantial profit offline:
Names appear to range from lazy keyboard bashing to nonsense, and of course some distinctly Chinese sounding names are present.
Either Square Enix is not keen on the idea of wiping out hundreds or thousands of farmers due to the game’s already tiny population, or it simply could not care less about players facing the prospect of having all their kills stolen by Fgjj Fjff and company.
The game’s decline in player numbers appears to have stabilised at around 24,000 players for now:
All this raises the question of just who will be left to buy all this farmed gold…
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Considering they got flack for the people they did kick for using one of the exploits it would not surprise me if it took a while for SE to do anything about this.
Next, we might have "Lolicon Enix" release a statement about how Lalafells are too cute to ban in order to delay their actions and earn more money.
These Chinese farmers can be compared to investors buying toxic assets during a crisis - their investments being their miserable time of life.
>items which can then be sold at a substantial profit offline
sold to who?
nobody plays this anyway
apparently china still plays it... lol.
it's been fun week.
Here's an simplified, yet accurate concept of online trade:
I take the list of paper and write "100 bucks" on it. Then you buy it off me for $1. Profit.
The same with online currency, you pay for idea. How pathetic.
it's the best you can do until they get the gameshark for final fantasy 14. lol.
May as well just call them all "ching chong pong" with slight variations..
Seriously..
What exploit are you talking about?
16k of said player base are probably these gold miners and bots.
At times like this, I'd rather advocate for MMORPGs where you don't get drops you can sell or even have a currency.
I'm sure currency and economy are vital and even fun aspects of MMORPGS for many, but I respect MMOs that concentrates on the gameplay.
Then people would just sell accounts instead of items.
Or good GMs that account and IP ban. Wont stop gold farmers and sellers but it will greatly reduce them.
And no one would buy them either as it is because this game sucks, which will soon tribute to even more players dropping this game if SE don't do anything about any of THESE problems this game have.
..December's coming.
Oops, forgot to log in. ^18:30 comment is mine.
Dam that Fgjj and Fjff.
They ruin game economies!...
Although come to think of it, this game is so crap it probably doesnt have any kind of decent economy and if it does ruining it will be overshadowed by all its other faults anyway :P
If I owned an MMO I'd just go out as an invisible gamemaster with a ban hammer and just slap bans all over em. Then hire lackies to deal with the inevitable wave of emails of genuine players I accidentally banned.
Eurgh thats what happens when I post immidiately after waking up.
I forget to login >.>
what is a fgjj and fjff?
A game where you have to get all items yourself will be a dead game. Crafting in particular would be terrible.
RMT would just craft all day and sell goods instead of farmable items. What's next, the disabling of trading crafting items? Then you just killed crafting. Don't underestimate how many people devote their time and energy to these professions.
"At times like this, I'd rather advocate for MMORPGs where you don't get drops you can sell or even have a currency."
If Demon's Souls was an MMO...
Not quite sure how that work in the grand scheme of things but, a Demon's Souls MMO could be godly....
As for FFXIV...well farmers aren't anything new. Although with FFXIV's population as it is, this is a rather undesirable out turn for Square at least. Wonder how much of the population farmers make up at this current point.
"16k of sad player base..."
fixd
Hmm, the situation is not good already but it will be worser if SE dont do anything to get rid of of those farmer.
Just when you think it can't get any worse with this game...
It does, hilarious really...
Old MacEnix had a farm, E-I-E-I-O
But then again, these bots probably make up for half all the active accounts that would continue to pay them.
FFXIV is on vegetative state with constant need for life support system. Someone please kill it quick and put it to a peaceful rest.
Yeah, because it's not like other MMOs, including Final Fantasy XI weren't overrun with RMT...owait.
They need to keep the gold miners and bots in order to keep the server population stats stable.
At least they picked the loli's to run around with.
It would be better for the game to just lie about it.
But this is a bad business decision on the part of the gold farmers if I ever saw one. They'll have no one to sell to and if the farming is easy, the gold will be cheaper.
...I want to scream and rage at how phail FF has become. But anything I can say right now I have said in the past. So in the end all I can do is lower my head and weep.
QQ...
People ran out of unused reactions for this long ago *sign* lol...
*leaves without even giving a responding to how Fail FFXIV has become*...
i rais my head up and let out a hearty laugh
it's terrible. it's not just "cut and paste" but "cut and paste and paste and paste and paste and..."
There is no need for humans to play this game Square Enix will do it for them.
hope the gold-farmers will get their investments back *sarcasm*
The gold farmers will face a loss themselves if FFXIV is not successful.
Somebody tell me what happened to the produver of FF I to FFXII!?
Two things:
1. They branched out too much and didn't keep the same quality (HOW many spinoff games did VII and X and XII have? Sure, some of them were bearable, even enjoyable, but they certainly weren't of the same quality as the originals).
2. They got lazy and didn't want to put effort into games when they could make a quick buck off the brand name alone (remember what was said about XIII? That they didn't make towns because it would be "too hard"? The same excuse they gave for why they won't do FFVII remake - it has towns. Reeks of lazy shitness, and FFXIV is showing the extent that lazy shitness can go in spades).
*sign* that question was about the Producers of FFI to FFXII I believe, lol...
I wasn't aware that the team had swapped out recently? I had thought SE had the same team now that they always had. If not, well that could explain a few things too.
Obviously (not to you) the same team is not working at a company for 20 years. People will retire, switch companies, switch teams within the company, move up the corporate ladder etc.
Secondly, what makes you think the same people working on the single player games are working on the MMO(s)?
sad these farmers are digging for gold but all they're getting is coal.
That's a good question. Who's going to buy all this farmed gold when the game sucks so badly that no one in their right mind would pay to play it?
They should have sunk their time farming WoW gold. at least they'd have a decent rate of return.
Well, it appears that since they had actually bought 14(and got ripped off while at it), they might as well farm both WoW & 14 gold at the same time.
14's farm is done to regain the cash they lost buying 14 by selling them to any 'faithful' 14 players left.
Ugh, I think I'm seeing hundreds of twins...or I need to change my glasses again
That's what they get for practicing polygonal inbreeding lol
Holy shi~, SE forgot to put condoms as a purchasable item in their inventory shops.
They have put them, but they works as well as everything else in FFIV...
Just goes to show you gold farmers are idiots, the game is in serious population decline and they think they can make a profit when most players that are still playing are upwards of 100 million gil already...
Makes you wonder if they even bother researching these things before wasting that hard earned slave cash.
They didn't waste anything. Unlike real players they use bots and if no one buys em still from them, it's not like they lost anything either.
And so, final verdict is, they'd win if they do eventually. But they'll never lose anything.
RMT also commonly steal accounts through viruses and phishing websites. They will do anything to survive.