Displaying simply how a lot the event staff cares for and helps their gamers in instances of disaster, Last Fantasy XIV has briefly suspended the auto-demolition of participant housing on Japanese Servers after a large magnitude 7.6 Earthquake that hit the Noto Peninsula on January 1.

In a publish uploaded to the Lodestone on January 4, builders acknowledged the tragedy and mentioned their “hearts exit to those that had been effected” by the pure catastrophe, which has left over 100 useless and lots of extra nonetheless lacking. The staff goes on to say that “as a result of damages and different elements, now we have determined to briefly droop the automated demolition of estates”.

Housing auto-demolition paused on Japanese Last Fantasy XIV servers

It’s not the primary time that the FFXIV staff has supplied their assist to gamers throughout robust instances. Housing auto-demolition was canceled indefinitely for all servers throughout the COVID outbreak in 2020 and, in a haunting reflection of present occasions, the identical occurred after the Kumamoto Earthquakes in 2016.

In a documentary by Noclip, Yoshi P mentioned the 2016 tragedy and instructed a heart-touching story of how logging into the sport was the one means for gamers throughout Japan to seek out out if their on-line associates had been secure. 

No date has been set for auto-demolition to return to Japanese servers. To seek out out extra, head over to the Lodestone or regulate FFXIV’s Twitter posts.