FFXIV devs have paused housing demolition on certain in-game servers after North America was hit by Hurricane Helene. At the end of September 2024, the Southeast United States was hit by Hurricane Helene , leading to a catastrophe that claimed many lives and caused damage to homes . Following this, FFXIV devs have announced that they’ve paused housing demolition on North American servers.
In a blog post , they wrote: “From all of us on the FFXIV development and management team, our hearts go out to those who were affected late last month by Hurricane Helene in North America.” “Due to the damages and other factors, we have decided to temporarily suspend the automatic demolition of estates.” The pause on the automatic demolition has been in effect since October 2, 2024, at 1:08 a.
m. (PDT). As for which servers are covered, they are Primal, Dynamis, Crystal, and the Aether Data Center.
Rest assured, once auto-demolition is back in the game on these servers, it will resume from the time remaining before the suspension. So, those who haven’t entered their house for a certain period of time before the pause will still have the same timer when it’s back. Other than that, it’s also mentioned that players with estates scheduled to be demolished can cancel the process simply by entering their housing or building on their land .
There’s no exact date for when housing demolition will resume. However, devs said they will “monitor the situation in the coming days” and.