[Request] Please Suspend Housing Demolition for NA

[Louvain]

I don't normally make request threads like these, but here we go.

In light of the recent disasters in NA such as Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Jose to the fires burning in Northwestern US and Southwestern Canada, a lot of people are finding themselves displaced or without internet/electricity. Even for those not in the direct path of these disasters, the secondary effects (high speed wind damage, smoke inhalation, flooding) are displacing a lot of people. Most of them are not focused, if not completely unable to check on their housing. With the extent of the damage it might be several weeks to months before these people are able to hop back on.

When an earthquake hit Japan last year, we also got a suspension to give those people time to rebuild and not get screwed over ingame. Given the scale of things in NA, I feel its reasonable to request a temporary suspension of the timed housing demolition to give the victims time to recover.
Thanks for reading if you did.

[F_Maximillian]

I could get behind this. It seems only fair after all.

[itti18]

sounds fair

[Ametrine]

Absolutely.

Although, would it pertinent to also delay the launch of Shirogane in light of this, too?

[Louvain]

Although, would it pertinent to also delay the launch of Shirogane in light of this, too?

I thought about this, but its really SE's personal decision. From a fairness point of view, yes. But from a marketing point of view, delaying shirogane housing would be very, very bad. The least they can do is keep the housing thats already there.

[Malzian]

/signed

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[Kiriezaiku]

I am 100% behind this, the auto-demo being suspended as well as a delay in Shirogane being released.

[EorzeaHero69]

Fair request.

[Titor]

Can we remove housing demolition all together? It clearly hasn't solved the housing situation. Many people will face tragedies in day to day life they must deal with. It's just a generally unhelpful system that harms people more than helps.

I'm all for indefinite suspension for this and every other thing that may arise, be it on a national or on a personal level.