Summary
Following severe floods in Spain,Final Fantasy 14paused the automatic housing demolition timers on its European Data Centers. This pause is the second to be proclaimed within a calendar month, as allFinal Fantasy 14homes across the European and North American Data Centers are locked down at the time of writing.
The moratorium on automatic housing demolitions came days beforethe November 12 release ofFinal Fantasy 14Patch 7.1. The Crossroads update will continue the story ofDawntrailand bring fans ofFinal Fantasy 11a dose of nostalgia via the first part of the Echoes of Vana’diel alliance raid series. Along with Job balance updates in PVE and PVP content, Patch 7.1 will introduce two high-end Trials for level 100 players; The Minstrel’s Ballad: Sphene’s Burden (Extreme) and The Jade Stoa (Unreal). In subsequent smaller updates, the Futures Rewritten (Ultimate) and Cloud of Darkness (Chaotic) raids will testFinal Fantasy 14players to their full potential.
Although Patch 7.1 will bring more content forFinal Fantasy 14fans to enjoy, Square Enix also gave certain players a reprieve following real-world events.According to the Lodestone, allFinal Fantasy 14housing plots in the Chaos and Light Data Centers, located in Europe, are subject to a temporary pause of the automatic demolition timers effective Thursday, November 7, at 3:33 AM Eastern. Square Enix did not state when the timers would resume but confirmed that the action was in response to the flooding that affected parts of eastern Spain. The torrential downpours occurred between October 29 and November 3 and became one of the deadliest natural disasters in Spanish history. The pause came a year after a similar one was enforced for several weeksfollowing earthquakes in Turkey and Syria.
Final Fantasy 14 Temporarily Pausing Automatic Housing Demolition in Europe
The pause on the European housing demolition timers is not the only current one inFinal Fantasy 14. In early October, the Aether, Crystal, Dynamis, and PrimalData Centers forFinal Fantasy 14in North America had their timers pausedfollowing the damage done by Hurricane Helene throughout the eastern US. While the pause remains in effect,Final Fantasy 14property owners who play in any affected Data Centers can reset the automatic demolition timer to 45 days by entering any housing plots they own.
Square Enix stated it will monitor both situations and share when the automatic demolition timers will resumeacross allFinal Fantasy 14Data Centersin Europe and North America. Between the housing situation and the Crossroads content update,Final Fantasy 14players will have plenty of news to track in the weeks ahead.
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