Square Enix announced that it will temporarily pause all FFXIV automatic housing demolition on the game’s North American servers due to the fires in Los Angeles, California.
Final Fantasy XIV is available for the PS4, PS5, Xbox Series X, and PC worldwide, and the FFXIV automatic housing demolition is temporarily paused until further notice.
It isn’t uncommon for Square Enix to take natural disasters, in-game issues, and other situations into account when it comes to FFXIV and automatic housing demolition.
Typically, there is a counter that would determine when unattended homes in FFXIV would be torn down so the lots could be offered up to others, but a pause on automatic housing demolition halts that and ends that process on servers.