Housing demolition should be suspended due to Australian bushfires

[JamieRose]

I think it might be a good idea to temporarily suspend the housing demolition mechanic for those Aussie fans who might have bigger things to worry about right now than XIV, it'd be horrible for them to finally come back after being evacuated to find out they lost their house in game through no fault of their own.

#Slacktivism

This isn't going to help anyone in Australia, it's just going to slow down the turnover of houses and make it more difficult for people to get one.

If you wanna help, send money or canned food. Don't incovienience other people to placate your conscience.

[Iscah]

If you wanna help, send money or canned food.

Just money, thankyou.

I'm not personally affected, but have seen news articles saying they are overloaded with well-meaning donations to the point that it's an obstruction to the recovery efforts.

[Alleo]

Except you're making assumptions that there is a significant number of FFXIV players who own a house in the game and are unable to play because of the fires, whether they've been displaced or they're acting as emergency/relief workers.

What if there aren't? What if SE is finding no evidence that any FFXIV player who owns a house in the game has been prevented from logging in due to the fires and that's why they haven't suspended the demo timer in any region?

So why is there a reason to suspend the JP timer (and I believe that happened more than once too)? How would they even know if many of those that have a house are even affected by whatever happened in Japan to stop that? Why is it fine for them to do that there but not when a whole nation suffers from the worst fire?

How would SE even know who logged in or not and are affected at the same time? Why would it be bad if this only helps a few? These would still be paying customers.

Maybe those at SE might have simply not read or heard much about these fires or how bad they are. I also have not heard much news on our radio about Japan when something happened to stop the timer there. Its always easier to look at what is happening in your own country and kinda forget that there are others too. Maybe their news dont care about it thus they dont hear about it. Having at least a thread on the forum might bring it to their attention. (Or not)

#Slacktivism

This isn't going to help anyone in Australia, it's just going to slow down the turnover of houses and make it more difficult for people to get one.

If you wanna help, send money or canned food. Don't incovienience other people to placate your conscience.

I hope you argued that too when the JP timer was off for months..I mean how does that help the JP players in real life either. Yet there it happened and seemingly barely anyone complained about that.

Maybe I am in the minority but I find it really bad to get houses by having people loosing them through such a catastrophy. "Oh these people cant log into to get their houses which they have maintained until now because their real life is threatened..thanks for getting me a house now and tough luck to those that already suffered and will probably be disappointed when they come back to relax at least in a video game..." Sorry but I find that terrible. (But I hate the whole system anyway...)

[Yshtola]

Bla bla bla

Do you even know that japan has a population density of ~350 per square km compared to ~4 for Australia. These fires are barely affecting anyone in the grand scheme of things because barely anyone lives in Australia despite being a continent. All the major cities in NSW are doing fine aside from poor air quality. Until Sidney burns (lol), there's really no need for you foreigners to pretend like you actually care about the very small amount of players who are unable to play in Australia.

[ausanimal]

Except you're making assumptions that there is a significant number of FFXIV players who own a house in the game and are unable to play because of the fires, whether they've been displaced or they're acting as emergency/relief workers.

What if there aren't? What if SE is finding no evidence that any FFXIV player who owns a house in the game has been prevented from logging in due to the fires and that's why they haven't suspended the demo timer in any region?

Are people going to call SE cruel and uncaring for not making concessions for a problem that may not be affecting more than 1 or 2 players if any at all?

I trust SE to make the right decision. Considering the fires have been burning since September, I'm certain they would have already suspended the demo timers if warranted. It would have happened before most of you were even aware the fires were going on.

And your making the assumption that the fires haven't affected any one at all that plays the game.

Would it really hurt the game if the did stop the demo timer for a while as things keep changing with the fires like the US and Canadian firefighters coming over, they have started coming over early December and more are still coming over and most times its for 6 weeks.
Are they going to check it each day/week to see what has changed with the fires and who might not be logging on anymore because they just got sent over to help out with the fires and will be gone for a long period.

And yes people will Australia will be one off the people at the top they already have done things that have put them on the bad side off Australians and New Zealanders, i'm guessing you don't live here so you feel safe and that SE treats you fair.
If it was good for them to put a hold on the house demo for JP then there is no reason they can't for other people, by them not doing it the only thing it shows is that they don't care when it comes to other country's.

I'm not sure you know how a fire works you say they have been burning since September but the US firefighters only started coming over in December, the ones back then might not be the same ones now or the ones that are the biggest threat fires off this size spread over such a large place can change each day. so by your thinking SE is keep up to date with it checking each day/week to see what has changed, who's might be affected by the fire and can't log in?

If people are so worried about owning houses why don't they start to question SE why they are allowing a FC to own nearly a whole ward but it only has 1 member when you need 4 to make a free company but you would rather people that are living in a country that is on fire atm lose there house first?

[ausanimal]

Do you even know that japan has a population density of ~350 per square km compared to ~4 for Australia. These fires are barely affecting anyone in the grand scheme of things because barely anyone lives in Australia despite being a continent. All the major cities in NSW are doing fine aside from poor air quality. Until Sidney burns (lol), there's really no need for you foreigners to pretend like you actually care about the very small amount of players who are unable to play in Australia.

I live in Australia so why don't you try something different if the fires didn't affect anyone in a grand scheme then why have we got firefighters coming over from the US to help out, why don't you look at a world map and look at the size difference between Australia and JP. Japan is about as big as the state Victoria which if you don't know is a small corner of Australia.

[Yshtola]

I live in Australia so why don't you try something different if the fires didn't affect anyone in a grand scheme then why have we got firefighters coming over from the US to help out, why don't you look at a world map and look at the size difference between Australia and JP. Japan is about as big as the state Victoria which if you don't know is a small corner of Australia.

Mate, international help is there to prevent the situation from getting out of hands. If you would have paid attention, you would have figured out that I was replying to someone who was wondering why Square Enix would halt the timer for any kind of natural disaster hitting Japan. Thanks for reinforcing my point that the tiniest Tsunami hitting Japan is more likely to harm more humans than these bush fires ever will.

[ausanimal]

#Slacktivism

This isn't going to help anyone in Australia, it's just going to slow down the turnover of houses and make it more difficult for people to get one.

If you wanna help, send money or canned food. Don't incovienience other people to placate your conscience.

If it is difficult for people to get houses there are other things SE needs to look at more then putting a hold on house demo timer for a short period due to something like the fires in Australia.

By putting the hold on the house demo it will allow people from all over the world that have been affected by the fires to keep there house because they choose to put there life at risk to save others, why should the firefighters from the US get punished and have the risk of losing a house that they might off had for years because they came over here to help out.

Maybe do a bit off research and look at the news there asking for money not canned food as they have to much off that already and with money they are able to help out people a lot more then they can with canned food. It's called having a heart and thinking off others before yourself and just being humane when something like this happens.

When was the last time a lot off people on here saying not to put the hold on the housing helped out another charity that wasn't in there country just to help them out?

[Iscah]

Thanks for reinforcing my point that the tiniest Tsunami hitting Japan is more likely to harm more humans than these bush fires ever will.

"The tiniest tsunami hitting Japan" would most likely be affecting a smaller geographic area than these fires, even if the population density is higher. The spread of these fires is huge.

There is a precedent for halting housing timers due to major disasters if SE considers it worthy of that attention - whether due to user statistics or simply for good PR.

It's been on international media so I assume they're aware of it.

I think we're at the tail end of a separate suspension of auto-demolition though, so that may affect their decision.

[ausanimal]

Mate, international help is there to prevent the situation from getting out of hands. If you would have paid attention, you would have figured out that I was replying to someone who was wondering why Square Enix would halt the timer for any kind of natural disaster hitting Japan. Thanks for reinforcing my point that the tiniest Tsunami hitting Japan is more likely to harm more humans than these bush fires ever will.

And yet look at how much off Australia is on fire it's not one small area like Japan, each country is different in size so any disaster will affect each one different take floods where i live the city was flooded in 2011 but because it is a city and so big some places didn't get hit by the flood where as other parts of the city was under water but everyone was affected by it. Really all you care about is how much a disaster can harm humans and not how many people are affected by it.