Eternal Bond Registration And Why it needs to be re-designed

The Eternal Bond marriage system added in patch 2.45 is very special addition added to the game for some special people. Although the registration for this is a complete nightmare. People with high tier plan ceremonies get to go ahead of everyone & anyone who plan on using this. This is understandable to an extent, but not at the expense of constantly pushing back other people's plans. They have turned it into a race & a hassle just to get a spot. OH you don't want to wait two weeks - a month to get this over with an the quest of your screen?. Well be online at 12am on a Tues. Forget that we have work the next morning cause our virtual marriage is important. You wanted your friend's to be there for your special day? Well too bad cause all that's left to reserve is 12pm on a Wed. What happens to the spot after the no show's don't come? This whole registration system is more of a hassle for players and needs to be re-worked and looked once more.

Kind of a QoL, but they should have made the times in either PST or stated it was in your time. I was honestly confused and was about to set a reservation because I thought it was in PST instead of CST (my time zone).

Just make it all Server Time ?
I know the ps3 time error was fixed, and now everyone see exactly the same hour when looking at it. Hope not being wrong....

There is bound to be plenty of people who are confused by the timezones. Thus resulting in lots of Cancelled ceremonies. What bothers me is no one states what happens to that spot when a couple simply doesn't show. Just another time slot thrown out or can someone quickly pick it up. The way they've done this really just feels like another attempt at Time locked content and incentive to buy their platinum plans.

I really dont like to wake up at 5am to schedule a game wedding.

so, the times shown are in "my time"?

Softcores don't have to be married right away. You can wait for a few weeks or months and you will definitely get the time/date that you want.

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Originally Posted by Gaelu

so, the times shown are in "my time"?

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AFAIK, yes. I.e: the game told me registration opened at 3a.m., but lodestone says 1. CST is 2 hours ahead of PST, so logically they're using CST* whenever times are concerned in-game.

*or whatever your timezone is.

the most fucked up thing about it imo is if you mess up your booking (which i and tons of other people did) and try to reschedule, you have to wait an entire more week to make the new booking, which i guess wouldn't be too bad, but on top of this you can't reschedule until 4AM pst, a whole hour after general bookings open, regardless of what marriage plan you have. which is super not ok and i wish i had noticed it before i went ahead with the whole thing.

people who paid for this service but had to reschedule for any reason get completely denied a part of the service they paid for, which is really bad practice.

I assumed all weddings were going to be individual instances, so it wouldn't matter what time you registered as long as it was in the frame. Silly me, now I have to wait a week. I only cared about the bond, not a huge fancy wedding. It was just an experience for my fiance and myself. It would've been nice to even be able to have private ceremonies with a few or no guests as some type of other optional. :(

What bothers me even more is I know a few people who are only getting married because of the stuff/benefits it got them.