it's peak ffxiah that you asked for this to be hidden, it got hidden and you're still posting here.
just peak ffxiah poster
No they are correct, it's hidden from the front page (which is good and appreciated) but you can still see it from the forum page. Honestly why have it at all, every single post is people being mad and trolls trolling them to be more mad.
To a point I get it, they need adrev and they need a thing that gets interaction up. However having a private server forum is a stab in the guts to someone that really likes the game, especially one that is as hated as Horizon is.
Most people do not have a problem with the base open source project itself or most PS, but this one is different due to their actions and people don't want it in our faces every time we come here.
Horizon is the worst PS that has ever been setup (so no surprise some of the scumbucket dregs all went there too) and has actively hurt and divided the entire 11 community in a way no other server ever has before, in that the people who own and run it are scumbags and do not care about FFXI or the FFXI community and only care about themselves and their own ego (and probably wallet). Not only do they happily hurt retail but other private servers too by advertising like a $10 hoe everywhere shamelessly, they also give nothing back to the place they took everything from in the first place.
As I said before, the majority of the adrev of this entire site is based on AUCTION HOUSE interactions and effectively promoting a server that does not work with that will hurt the site long term far more than any short term gain.
Also since Yoshida is effectively throwing FF11 a bone and adding a FF11 raid to FF14, and that will lead to ff14 players potentially checking out the game. Having a PS forum here is really damn crappy behavior, it does condone it from one of the biggest remaining ff11 sites and makes people think it's ok to go there. When it's not ok at all.
They can do what they want, but it's still objectively bad.