Thank you for turning off demolition!

[Battler-Ushiromiya]

Shoutout to the devs, with everything going on in Europe its important to recognize that some people cannot play at this time. I would also ask that North America be paused as well due to the chemical devastation in Ohio currently.

Thank you for respecting the hard work that the most dedicated players put in to earn their homes.

[Elevin]

Shoutout to the devs, with everything going on in Europe its important to recognize that some people cannot play at this time. I would also ask that North America be paused as well due to the chemical devastation in Ohio currently.

Thank you for respecting the hard work that the most dedicated players put in to earn their homes.

they should turn off JP just to show solidarity with the rest of the world too.

[SlouchyBard]

Um... there is a huge difference between what is going on in Ohio and what happened in Turkey.

[dspguy]

Um... there is a huge difference between what is going on in Ohio and what happened in Turkey.

This is true, but there are ongoing crises all the time at varying levels of severity. SE picks some to turn-off auto-demolition and others to leave it on.

[DivineP]

Shoutout to the devs, with everything going on in Europe its important to recognize that some people cannot play at this time. I would also ask that North America be paused as well due to the chemical devastation in Ohio currently.

Thank you for respecting the hard work that the most dedicated players put in to earn their homes.

Agreed. I'm not a FF14 fanboy (If you rework AST into some generic thing then ill be mad!) But their compassion through covid, and now this really shows. Good for them!

Shows they care about their playerbase with IRL country issues.

[Masekase_Hurricane]

Just out of curiosity is the player base big in Syria and Turkey?

[Jojoya]

Just out of curiosity is the player base big in Syria and Turkey?

Large enough for them to decide to disable demolition for EU. There have been disasters of similar magnitude in other parts of the world that haven't caused them to disable demolition, presumably because the game doesn't serve those regions or there weren't enough registered players.

[PaalHenrik]

Large enough for them to decide to disable demolition for EU. There have been disasters of similar magnitude in other parts of the world that haven't caused them to disable demolition, presumably because the game doesn't serve those regions or there weren't enough registered players.

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.

[Jojoya]

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.