Thank you for turning off demolition!

Shoutout to the devs, with everything going on in Europe its important to recognize that some people cannot play at this time. I would also ask that North America be paused as well due to the chemical devastation in Ohio currently.

Thank you for respecting the hard work that the most dedicated players put in to earn their homes.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Battler-Ushiromiya

Shoutout to the devs, with everything going on in Europe its important to recognize that some people cannot play at this time. I would also ask that North America be paused as well due to the chemical devastation in Ohio currently.

Thank you for respecting the hard work that the most dedicated players put in to earn their homes.

---

they should turn off JP just to show solidarity with the rest of the world too.

Um... there is a huge difference between what is going on in Ohio and what happened in Turkey.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Battler-Ushiromiya

Shoutout to the devs, with everything going on in Europe its important to recognize that some people cannot play at this time. I would also ask that North America be paused as well due to the chemical devastation in Ohio currently.

Thank you for respecting the hard work that the most dedicated players put in to earn their homes.

---

Agreed. I'm not a FF14 fanboy (If you rework AST into some generic thing then ill be mad!) But their compassion through covid, and now this really shows. Good for them!

Shows they care about their playerbase with IRL country issues.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by SlouchyBard

Um... there is a huge difference between what is going on in Ohio and what happened in Turkey.

---

This is true, but there are ongoing crises all the time at varying levels of severity. SE picks some to turn-off auto-demolition and others to leave it on.

Just out of curiosity is the player base big in Syria and Turkey?

Honestly I wish they just permanently turned it off and gave players an option to resell their plot and get the same amount back that they would have if they let it auto-demo. There is always something unfortunate that is happening in the world and it never feels good to see the company pick someone else's tragedy and ignore your own. It also will never take into account personal tragedy that can pull someone away from the game for a long time and punish them for that as SE won't provide any recompense for that.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Amenara

Honestly I wish they just permanently turned it off and gave players an option to resell their plot and get the same amount back that they would have if they let it auto-demo. There is always something unfortunate that is happening in the world and it never feels good to see the company pick someone else's tragedy and ignore your own. It also will never take into account personal tragedy that can pull someone away from the game for a long time and punish them for that as SE won't provide any recompense for that.

---

I bet there are several thousand more players that have lost their houses due to various reasons beyond their control than those that would have lost their houses from the ukraine war and now the earthquake in turkey. IF SE really cared about it and weren't just virtue signalling, then they would implement a system within the account options to temporarily suspend auto demolition for a period of time on a case by case basis.

And if these crisis's are that significant that they would rather inconvenience millions of players over a few hundred, then they should really make it a priority to develop such a system urgently.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Masekase_Hurricane

Just out of curiosity is the player base big in Syria and Turkey?

---

Large enough for them to decide to disable demolition for EU. There have been disasters of similar magnitude in other parts of the world that haven't caused them to disable demolition, presumably because the game doesn't serve those regions or there weren't enough registered players.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Jojoya

Large enough for them to decide to disable demolition for EU. There have been disasters of similar magnitude in other parts of the world that haven't caused them to disable demolition, presumably because the game doesn't serve those regions or there weren't enough registered players.

---

That doesn't really wash. When they shut it off for the hurricanes in the US, all of the data centres were shut off. When the Ukraine conflict started, all of the data centres were shut off. A few more instances as well.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by PaalHenrik

That doesn't really wash. When they shut it off for the hurricanes in the US, all of the data centres were shut off. When the Ukraine conflict started, all of the data centres were shut off. A few more instances as well.

---

You're working off the assumption that players don't play on data centers outside their region of residence.

That's not true. Many players play outside their region of residence.

As players, we don't have those numbers. SE does however. It's not going to take much to run a report of accounts that have an address in the affected areas then see where those accounts have characters and if those characters have houses.

Likely the players residing in Turkey and Syria have their characters concentrated on the EU worlds with very few if any on worlds in the other regions so they chose to only disable it for the EU worlds.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Jojoya

You're working off the assumption that players don't play on data centers outside their region of residence.

That's not true. Many players play outside their region of residence.

As players, we don't have those numbers. SE does however. It's not going to take much to run a report of accounts that have an address in the affected areas then see where those accounts have characters and if those characters have houses.

Likely the players residing in Turkey and Syria have their characters concentrated on the EU worlds with very few if any on worlds in the other regions so they chose to only disable it for the EU worlds.

---

No, actually I'm not working off the assumption that players don't play on data centres outside of region of residence. SE doesn't allow accounts to change regions so I'm currently stuck in a region that I no longer physically live in anymore. For all we know, some of those players in southern Turkey and Syria, could be playing on OCE or JP because those servers aren't so far from those countries either. SE turned on auto-demo for the entire player base when the hurricanes hit the southern States and and when Ukraine was being invaded.

"It's not going to take much to run a report of accounts that have an address in the affected areas then see where those accounts have characters and if those characters have houses." If that's the case, then they can see who is affected and tailor it to those people specifically.

Not saying it isn’t sad what’s happening but might aswell make housing never subject to demolition if you’re going to activate it for every IRL catastrophy, since it’s always bound to happen.

Activating it just to stop it again feels terrible.

PaalHenrik is right they know where you’re from so targeting every Turkey house owner shouldn’t be that complicated.