Will EU have housing demolition paused because of Ukraine

It should be delayed for them due to all the craziness going on.

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Originally Posted by Eraden

I think there may be bigger issues to worry about due to the invasion than whether or not housing demolition will be paused.

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With all due respect the existence of larger issues does not mean the smaller issues should be entirely ignored. This is actually an ancient fallacy that all too many people fall into. It won't do for the ukraine situation to end up settled just for the morale of the survivors to plummet that little bit more should their little escape from the horrors of reality hand them an eviction notice.

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Originally Posted by Onshinn

Is your in game house really more important than human lives being lost overnight by a tyrant!? They even bombed Ukraine's Children Hospital!!! A CHILDREN HOSPITAL. The severity of this invasion isn't a video game. Isn't what you do in Call of Duty or some FPS shooting game. OMG what kind of mindset are you having? It's not like how we go in as Full pArty in Ultimate where a healer can raise you when you die. Medics can't raise shit in real life.

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As with all deasters that happen over the past few years (floods, fires, hurricanes... you name it...) its not about an ingame house being more important, its about this being one less, even if tiny, worry on peoples minds when they've lost everything else. No one believes that this would make a huge difference, but maybe it can make a tiny difference - games are a means of escapism, playing them or even thinking about them can distract you from whatever happens around you.
I'm sure people have a lot more and a lot bigger things to worry about right now - but why not take away this tiny worry?

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Originally Posted by Onshinn

Is your in game house really more important than human lives being lost overnight by a tyrant!? They even bombed Ukraine's Children Hospital!!! A CHILDREN HOSPITAL. The severity of this invasion isn't a video game. Isn't what you do in Call of Duty or some FPS shooting game. OMG what kind of mindset are you having? It's not like how we go in as Full pArty in Ultimate where a healer can raise you when you die. Medics can't raise shit in real life.

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"Square shouldn't react to large scale real life events because real life is important."

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Originally Posted by Onshinn

Means of escapism by detachment of your sense humanity and reality is sick. To entertain the idea that it is OK as a form of escapism using a war happening right now. I can't get around it. that's a really abhorrent excuse. I'm done. I get it you need to play your game to get 'de-stress'. But this is just sick.

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I would not only entertain the idea that it is "OK" to use some form of escapism - video games or otherwise - during a crisis like this but necessary to keep ones sanity, quite literally. Dealing with constant stress, fear/panic, anxiety without means to destress is a sure way to mental illness - so yes, whatever helps one to de-stress is a good thing (given that its not actively hurting others).

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Originally Posted by Asaeampan

With all due respect the existence of larger issues does not mean the smaller issues should be entirely ignored. This is actually an ancient fallacy that all too many people fall into. It won't do for the ukraine situation to end up settled just for the morale of the survivors to plummet that little bit more should their little escape from the horrors of reality hand them an eviction notice.

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Oh, by all means go ahead with extending the moratorium on housing demolition. It is a relatively trivial thing to do. I hope you are not under any illusion that this is going to offer even a modicum of relief though. These people are trying to SURVIVE. If you really want to help them, I suggest you find a charity that is planning to send relief supplies to the refugees and make a donation to it.

I can see one of two things occurring tomorrow. Either they post a update with the wording of "In light of the conflict occurring in Ukraine, we have decided to extend the housing demolition suspension on the Chaos and Light datacenters and will be looking closely at the conflict to see if the suspension extension is spread to other datatcenters." OR "We are aware of the ongoing conflict in Ukraine and will be monitoring the conflict to see if the housing demolition suspension is extended. We are not extending the demolition timer on any datacenter at this time."

Seems they did stop the auto-demolition.

http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...8b104d6a595126

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Originally Posted by RobynDaBank

Seems they did stop the auto-demolition.

http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...8b104d6a595126

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Wow, they are vague as hell about it!

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Originally Posted by Skiros

Wow, they are vague as hell about it!

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Well wth do you want from them? They are a gameing company. My god do some of you realize because of what is going on in Ukraine it could spark a world war, not to mention this mad man has nukes? I think that is more important than some virtual house with virtual items.