I think you misunderstood what Daemion was saying, Bernkastel.

While I think the current forums are an excellent start, I'd agree that the look is very cluttered. To build off Daemion's idea, I'd suggest separating the forums by subdomain (and this is only an example)-

jp.forum.square-enix.com: Japanese Forums
en.forum.square-enix.com: English Forums
fr.forum.square-enix.com: French Forums, etc.

That way, those who are multilingual can still have access to the various forums, but the look should be cleaner, more concise, and organized.