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:
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All this raises the question of just who will be left to buy all this farmed gold…
简要翻译：
反人类4.0剩下的那点玩家基数纷纷警告现在打金farmer云集各个服务器，并表示他们为人数的持续下滑做出了不可磨灭的贡献。
玩家注意到许多“玩家”总是成群结队的出现，他们的意图很可能是囤积游戏中流通的货币和道具，然后通过线下交易以此获利。
他们给角色起的游戏名看起来是乱敲键盘随机排列组合的，而且有不少名字的发音一读就知道是景德镇人。
很显然，反人类4.0弱不禁风的那点人数导致SE没有魄力将这些成百上千的farmer驱逐出游戏，要不然就是SE压根不在乎玩家杀怪的价值以后将会被各个工作室攫取。
最新的数据显示人数快要跌破2万4了，而且这可能是最后的可参考数据，因为在今天的更新中SE取消了显示各服务器当前人数的功能。
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不过现在还有一个问题就是，到底谁会留下来买这些farmer打出来的金呢……