Square Enix's competition has taken the stance to support and include gay marriage.
Nothing negative has happened to them.
They are worldwide.
Nothing will happen to Square Enix if they choose to.
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I think you fail to realize that SE simply going on ahead and adding non-SS marriage, while choosing not to implement SS marriage, IS TAKING A SIDE. Your failure to realize that also shows your bias in this argument, but to each his/her own. It's hardly a perfect position as it goes against what a large population of players would prefer. If they wanted to avoid taking a stance on the issue, they could just do away with marriages in-game completely as it is merely a novelty of immersion and unnecessary. If SE finds it so touchy, then why even implement? How does it make sense to say "since this is a very touchy subject and since we don't want to upset the masses, we are just going to go with 'View A' for now... 'View B' may be reconsidered later.." LOL. SE just told everyone their stance, like it or not. I agree with you in that I think SE will do exactly what they said they would do, implement non-SS marriage and leave the idea of SS marriage floating in the wind until the buzz dies down. A tactic used by alot of people who'd share that stance.
If there stance on this subject is only having ss marriage that there right if they do it or not and same if company supports gay marriage that there right not dictated or force to concede because other people belief's on either side of issue. I really couldn't care less what decision they do on this subject to be honest I'd never used a function like marriage in game a pointless system imo and it will not hold me back in playing the game base on it.
And you know what side-steps the issue completely? Calling it something different. What's interesting is that Valentione's Day had explicit romantic implications and was not restricted to heterosexual couples. Were there any major repercussions for that? I certainly didn't see any. In fact I don't recall a single person, even on the forums, speaking out against it. In fact most people I knew were elated by the fact that it wasn't restricted based on character gender.
Oho...sounds like you didn't like Yoshi-p's answer on the matter...whenever weddings happen to make it's way into the game it will only be F/M , SSM will be up in the air and in a distant future THEN and only then he will require your feedback for it to be introduced {so much for "he wants our feedback now now now")...I knew this thread was useless.