Square Enix has announced that it's suspending the automatic demolition of Final Fantasy XIV housing for areas potentially affected by Hurricane Helene.
In an announcement on the Final Fantasy XIV website, Square Enix says that its team's "hearts go out" to those who've been caught in Hurricane Helene or affected by it in any way, and that the "damages and other factors" have led to the decision to suspend estate deletion.
Deletion has been suspended effective from today at 1:08am Pacific time (that's around 4am Eastern), and the suspension counts for every world in the Aether, Crystal, Dynamis, and Primal data centers.
If your estate was about to be deleted, you can cancel this by entering said estate or starting a new estate construction on your land, which will prevent the automatic deletion process from kicking in.
Square Enix says that it will "monitor the situation in the coming days" and announce when auto-demolition will begin again once a decision has been made. We don't know when that will be just yet, though.
When it does happen, the auto-demolition timer will continue from where it left off when it was paused, so you'll have exactly as much time to deletion as you did before the pause happened.
The studio closes by saying it hopes that "recovery is swift" for those affected by Hurricane Helene, and that those affected "will be able to rejoin us in Final Fantasy XIV soon".
This isn't the first time automatic Final Fantasy XIV housing demolition has been paused; Square Enix made a similar decision when the COVID-19 pandemic began, then paused deletion once again in December 2021, eventually restarting it with the advent of Patch 6.3.
Final Fantasy XIV is available right now to play on PC, PlayStation, and Xbox Series X|S. We'll have more for you about the critically-acclaimed MMORPG as soon as we get it.
