[Request] Please Suspend Housing Demolition for NA

[JunseiKei]

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I don't want to seem as uncaring but I feel like we can't just have it shut off unless it's something that severely impacts a lot of people.

Maybe it should be considered because we have had 2 major ones (Texas and Florida) but at the same time I think we should be really be cautious about just requesting to turn it off just cause something's happened, unless it's really severe.

That's why I specifically brought up other locations, like the Caribbean, that were devastated far worse. While hurricanes are normal this time of year in those areas, category 5 storms are the exception. You know, where places like 90% of the island destroyed, places without power that may be a months away from having a normal life again.

[Jade3173]

As someone who lives near the fires in the NW, not effected myself luckily, I agree with this.

Also, great to see so many people actually thinking of others

[Tsumdere]

That's exactly my point, we would be shutting off the timer almost all the time. As weather events happen yearly constantly, this year is especially bad, but they happen all the time in the US and granted in most of North America. The thing is shutting off the timer is convenient but also unfair for others that can play. Granted it's a high numbers affected but many more that are not. Again, it's a difficult situation. Ideally it would be great to stop the timer to accommodate those affected but at the same time we can't stop it for everyone every time something happens because at that point, it's like why even have the timer?

I'm sorry - I wasn't aware that entire states being engulfed in smoke and fire, category 5 hurricanes that destroy entire countries, 8.1 magnitude earthquakes, and record breaking heatwaves happened every single year at the same time to a singular continent.

[Seoulstar]

Signed, it's only fair~

[Auraelyse]

As someone who also lives in the PacNW (WA state to be exact), near the wild fires but not affected thankfully (Although there was that nasty haze and smell of smoke and ash), I fully agree with this as well.

[Lukha]

SE would have my absolute support if they chose to do this. These storms were massive, and the season's only just getting started, so there's every chance more people could find themselves displaced or without power as the year goes on.

I also worry that if they don't, it will look very much like favoritism towards the JP market. After they were kind enough to suspended demolition due to the natural disaster in Japan, failing to make similar concessions for other regions having similar crises would not look good.

[wizisi2k]

I have to throw my support behind a suspension of the housing demolition timer as well as at least a PARTIAL delay for Shirogane (release only a few wards now and the rest at a later date). I would also suggest to the mods that implementing the rest/resuming housing demolition occur when the following conditions are met: 1: the 2017 hurricane season for NA is over and 2: at least 75% of subscribers affected by these hurricanes (and any more in 2017) be back in their homes and have logged back in to FFXIV. Only then can you say it's been fair. Is suspending until the end of the Hurricane season realistic? To answer that, how long was housing demolition suspended following the Japanese earthquake? I am only asking for maybe a max of 60-70 days suspension although longer would most likely be a VERY good idea on top of allowing for load monitoring so possibly more wards can be added on top of the expected 9. It would by a little stupid to suspend because your Japanese subscriber base had a earthquake but not do the same for 2 hurricanes hitting the US (and cause you to lose goodwill in NA as well).
For the record, I'm not anywhere near impact areas for the hurricanes but I have family and friends who while not subscribers to FFXIV, are being impacted in some way.

[AmiBeau]

Alright time to throw some objective criticism into the ring here instead of feels fest 2017.

Why on God's green Earth would you be worried about your in-game house if you were in fact, a victim of a natural disaster? If you do, then yes, you do REALLY need to reevaluate their lives.
If you want to actually help these people, then do charitable acts to actually help these people. The world doesn't suddenly stand still just because of an incident, and yes I am calling it what it is... an INCIDENT. When it comes to things like this happening, it isn't even a blip in the grand scheme of things.
Much like in real life your feelings do not matter, objective reasoning should prevail over "m'feelings." Time waits for no man; and neither do people waiting for housing. If you're not on, then you forfeit your right to claim it... welcome to an MMO.

[AmiBeau]

Let me further clarify my reasoning... If they're losing their house, it's because they haven't logged in and stepped into their home for 45 days. The hurricane things have been going on for let's just say 14 days; that would mean that for the other 31 days, they couldn't have been bothered to refresh the demo timer.
Hell with waiting for people who couldn't have been bothered to take 5 minutes out of their day to reset the timer back to 45 days. /slowclap

[Bourne_Endeavor]

Maybe it should be considered because we have had 2 major ones (Texas and Florida) but at the same time I think we should be really be cautious about just requesting to turn it off just cause something's happened, unless it's really severe.

Houston makes up the fourth largest city in the continental USA while millions have no power throughout Florida. None of this even begins to factor the wildfires and near complete decimation of the coastal islands. I think this more than qualifies as severe. For reference sake, the Earthquake which struck Kumamoto displaced 44,000 people in a city population of approxiately 737,000 present day. This is less than a quarter of Houston's population, and significantly more people were displaced between just the two aforementioned States. Now I do want to clarify, I don't mean to start a comparison which disaster was worse, but only wished to demonstrate the severity.