Do you know why the forums are dead? As soon as you express your opinion in any negative fashion, you'll be slapped with a 10 day ban with no way to talk to a person in any reasonable fashion to litigate your cause. The forums are here, I thought, so that we as players can discuss the good and the bad side of the game and it's process, to include the forum. However, once an issue comes to light in the forums, there is absolutely no way to get a hold of anyone from the forums through any channel in the Square Enix business except through the same forums you were banned for.

Let's talk about excessive enforcement now. The limit on a posts per day, the limit on words per post, and now the excessive limit on time banned for a first time offender and the completely objective judements of what they feel the rules mean when any candid comment rubs them the wrong way. On top of that, there's no way to talk to anyone about your post and when the ban hammer comes down, you are completely locked out entirely from the forums. To top it off, the same comments I made were made a hundred times over and I actively see those that should have been "banned" for making the same comments active and carefree.

I for one will not frequent the forums again, and this just chalks up another strike for Square Enix. The steady decline of caring about the player base, the elitist attitude from the corporation as a whole, and the lack of quality games (in my opinion of course) is giving me cause to no longer support any Final Fantasy's. As a gamer and an avid supporter of Final Fantasy for 20+ years, it's truly a shame that it's fallen so far.