What is going on with Square Enix and the 14 team?

[Theodric]

You mean like this one where the poster was intimidated into changing their original post? It's just the latest. It's not always at a time when there's an issue. People go into positive threads all the time with negativity. And it's not even a problem that people disagree. They can come into the thread and say "X isn't my cup of tea or whatever" and that's fine. That's free and open exchange of ideas. But that doesn't happen. The thread 9 times out of 10 goes into a handful of people insulting the poster. We don't all have to agree all the time. That would get boring. But we need to respect that we all have a variety of opinions.

https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...the-Developers

I read that exchange. The discussion was fairly civil until around this point:

https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...=1#post5904961

Yet even after that remained fairly civil. At no point was the OP "intimidated" - they chose of their own volition to change their post after some back and forth, but please don't pretend anyone forced them or "intimidated" them.

Especially when it devolved into this:

https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...=1#post5905000