Greetings,

The demolishing on the EU data center worlds has been suspended again on 9 February due to the earthquake. And although I feel for everyone that has been effected by this major nature disaster, I don’t think it is wise to bring real life events in to having an effect on the game play for every player.

If the company wants to compensate, help or support a specific group of players, then do so. It should be easy enough to sort out the accounts of people in effected areas. You have our billing information, so you know where we live. And if the company feels that a specific group of players should escape one or more demolish rounds due to a real life event, then make it so.

But please stop with putting everyone in the thick of it. We might not be in a war or earthquake but most people deal with enough problems and use gaming as their escape. They pay a pretty steep monthly fee, especially with the current inflation and energy crisis going on but still don’t get a shot on a house because the company chooses to break that part of the game deliberately.

First auto demolish was suspended in March 2020 due to Covid and resumed 9 months later in December 2020 with patch 5.4. Then it was suspended a year later again in December 5 2021 due to the release of Endwalker. It was not resumed in March 2022 as planned but stayed suspended until 2023. And just as it was turned back on, it was suspended again for the EU. It has been 14 months now and there is still no end in sight.

So please, start it up again and find another way to pay your respects, support and sympathies to effected players of nature disasters. Because unfortunately we will get plenty of those in the future.