Quote Originally Posted by PaalHenrik View Post
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.