Will EU have housing demolition paused because of Ukraine

[Caurcas]

Under normal circumstances I'd fully agree with you. But like I said, he has become unhinged. This isn't him being cold and calculating. This is him being crazy. NONE of this makes any sense. The attack itself is, sadly, unsurprising. It has been in the making for years. But the way he's going about it all is very unlike Putin.

Man basically had everything line up to throw down his gambit. West in disarray and caught with its pants down. A disgruntled citizenry with a down turned economy is unlikely to support intervention action. Not to mention hesitation to get involved after a disastrous end to a twenty year long conflict just last year. The stars aligned for Putin.

[Burmecia]

SE seems to suspend it whenever a disruptive event like this happens, which is a few times a year so there is hardly a time when the housing demolition is actually ticking.

Sounds to me like SE has chosen to show their customers some very admirable solidarity.
Which is not bad thing.

[Kolsykol]

The scary part (well, one of many honestly) is that Putin has apparently become so detached from reality that we really don't know what he's going to do. He could go nuclear today, tomorrow or never. The simple fact that he brought them up in his speeches is alarming.

I don't find it particularly alarming tbh, the reason why he brought them up was just him flexing to basically send the signal of '' stay out of this '' to the rest of the world.
Putin is evil but he's not an idiot.
It makes a lot of sense to mention nukes and Biden and other US presidents also bring them up, Biden in one of his recent talks about the current situation also brought them up.

Finland shares a border with Russia and Sweden where I am from is very important geographically, Russia does a lot of weird and random acts of aggression towards us on a somewhat regular basis ( including breaking into our territory ).
But I am not particularly worried about it, altho I do hope we join NATO already I think if this has shown anything it's that we can't be so naive about it even if we're promised protection and essentially have a separate agreement NATO memebership would still offer a greater guarantee.
There are however a lot of reasons why Russia would invade Ukraine while there's no real reason for them to invade the rest of Europe and it'd be suicidal.

In all honesty tho the biggest concern for me when it comes to nukes is actually accidents.
If you look into how outdated a lot of the nuclear bases are it's quite concerning, and there has been a lot of very close accidents before.

[Jennah]

SE tends to do this whenever a large number of people are likely to have their actual, real life houses destroyed.
I guess it depends if Ukraine is officially on the EU server list - I imagine it is.

Also, Japan has a bit of historical enmity with Russia, going back all the way to the time of the Czars. And SE wasn't above giving Garlemald a number of Russian characteristics. So, uh ... I suspect we know what side they're on, at least.

[Eraden]

We'll see how it goes from here. Yet the existence of larger issues does not necessarily negate the existence of smaller issues.

Even if the chaos spreads across Europe as a whole then it'd be nice to emerge from a bunker knowing that my house in FFXIV survived, at least.

Yes, sometimes the existence of larger issues DOES negate the existence of smaller issues. If you have to emerge out of a bunker due to chaos spreading across Europe, there is a VERY good chance that SE simply does not exist anymore due to WWIII having just occured. Many of the nations within Europe are NATO members and if they were attacked, it would mean all out war against Russia by NATO. I see no way for that NOT to go straight to nuclear war. I grew up during the cold war era. At that time we were all painfully aware of just how close we had come to nuclear annihilation on SEVERAL occasions. This current crisis outstrips ALL of those past ones by a fair margin. My only hope is that there is some sanity left in the leaders of the nations of the World.

[SayaAlex]

I am a Japanese. Please forgive me if I make a mistake in the grammar.

I'm reading this post from Japan. In Japan, the crisis in Ukraine has been widely reported by the Japanese media, and I am very sad. I pray for Ukraine people safety from Japan.
I think SE also understands this difficult situation in Ukraine. Also, I think that some Japanese players know from the gameplay that FF14 is being played in Ukraine.
I hope SE will take appropriate action.
Thank you for your reading.

[Shougun]

Seems like a logical request / response to the situation. Of course there are bigger issues to be concerned over, but given they've paused it for earthquakes and such.. seems like this issue would certainly fall in that general line of thought of "worry about your other stuff, not the game- come back when you can".

As for the discussion of hinged or unhinged all I feel is situation is bad or it's bad. "Don't make them mad, they'll nuke us!" reads to me as they can do whatever they want as everyone will just give up and rollout "they came for the X, and I did nothing, Y and I sat, and then they came for me" type situation. Alternatively the other popular option is "bring down the wrath of Zeus on them!!!" reads to me like a very long winter will be coming. Edit: re-read and realized it might look like I'm saying we should do nothing or ambivalence.. no.. just expounding my feeling of dread given MAD vs inaction. Standing with Ukraine is the right thing to do, just trying not to light the tinderbox while doing it.. hopefully.

Can I go back to 2020 with aliens being the surprise joke?

[MistakeNot]

I'm guessing no. I'm actually curious if SE will lol. Probably 20% yes 80% no.

Someone correct me if I am wrong, but housing demolition is already paused and has been paused for a couple of months. (Due to the congestion at the Endwalker release.)
Housing demolition is currently scheduled to be re-enabled on March 9. A week and a half from now. Lots of things can happen during that time - good or bad - that may influence the need for another pause.

[Vahlnir]

Can I go back to 2020 with aliens being the surprise joke?

Man, that killed me. Still kills me. The government confirming that UFOs were real (basically saying aliens without saying aliens) was the best news of the entire year. Yet...no one cared. lol

[TheMightyMollusk]

Man, that killed me. Still kills me. The government confirming that UFOs were real (basically saying aliens without saying aliens) was the best news of the entire year. Yet...no one cared. lol

Remember the days when noteworthy news wasn't happening every other week and we could actually dwell on something for a while?

I miss precedented times. This is all just exhausting.