Marriage

I have a bit of a proposal about marriage.
(pun intended)

If a marriage service is ever offered and yes i realize this would be far far into the future of the game. It would be kind of nifty if one of the players could choose to change there surname to that of there partner. And if the happy couple eventually becomes a unhappy one the change could be reverted.

I think it would be neat if there were bonuses to being married as well. (And I wouldn't mind same sex marriages either XD)

Do we get money from the guys if we get divorced cuz they were cheating on us? If so...money!

I'm all for it — only if same-sex marriages are allowed.

well i remember both same sex marriages and surname changes were mentioned as something they would have before the game came out at vanafest i think. But of course that was with the old team, so no idea if the new team plan on doing it or not i dont know

I will keep bumping this until they add marriage. Along with marriage add venues we can rent out and have ls meetings there, and that would also be a venues for weddings. The public companies could officiate them, please make a gm do it, they dont do much else.

I'm all for the marriage ideas proposed, just don't make it like FFXI had at the beginning. Paying the fee wasn't bad but the waiting list was horrible ...

I can't believe people don't want marriage. XI had a lot of couples sad to see not that many couples transferred over to xiv.

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Originally Posted by zaviermhigo

I can't believe people don't want marriage. XI had a lot of couples sad to see not that many couples transferred over to xiv.

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Cant really see any thing that equates to a post condemning a marriage system. In all honesty I am surprised any one responded to this at all. Given that its posted in the bowls of the forum and its something that only half of a percent of the player base would actually use.

Starting FFXIV, to me, was supposed to be a new experience to make new friends in. Sadly it's hard to do outside of a linkshell because there's no real reason to party up in order to level, except I do in Behest a lot. And in Behest it seems people are so concerned with just getting it over with that it's hard to make friends there ... /sigh so I honestly can't see marriages being too big until they force us players to become more friendly. That's a change to the game I'm highly anticipating!

Only if they add a {Will You Marry Me?} Auto translate.

God, NO. I can't believe people are asking for stuff like this...

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Originally Posted by Kenji

God, NO. I can't believe people are asking for stuff like this...

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What's wrong with wanting marriage? It's a role playing game, emphasis on role playing. If people want to hold a wedding and pretend they're really married (like with a signed ring) then let them. Why you so against online love, huh? :(

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Originally Posted by Xeak

What's wrong with wanting marriage? It's a role playing game, emphasis on role playing. If people want to hold a wedding and pretend they're really married (like with a signed ring) then let them. Why you so against online love, huh? :(

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ya you cant say something like god NO with no explanation

Only if it's player-organized and the GM is only there to play a role the players scripted first... the GM lines in XI were just absolutely ridiculous.

What about inter-racial marriages.... Roegadin & Lalas anyone? Wedding dresses for boys and tuxedos for girls as an option too. Also, polygamy. I'm actually being serious about all this, no joke.

A bump & a like for this thread ^<^

lol, it doesn't matter your race or gender, you can all still make... Miqo'lalas. (Imagine how cute they could be... XD.)

I mentioned this to my BF and he said he would play it with me if we could do this, so yeah, I vote for it.

He got really excited over the idea, actually. >_>

I am in favor of this

No one condemned it lol, just NO ONE REPLIED in it either thats what i'm saying. Just shocked to see the community in xiv. I guess if there were more couples I wouldn't see people soloing leves lol.

Mary me Zaviermhigo...OH WAIT YOU ARE ON SELBINA

Innerserverial marriages? One of you will have to get a green card.

Too much effort. nevermind

Please make the wedding ring AP0 (if they still going to keep that Accessory Point crap)...lol I don't want people looking at me going why the hell you have that ring on wasting AP cost for something you could actually get stats on... hard to tell them... I....Can't....take....it....off.....it.....its.....c....cursed....

oh and {will you marry me} auto-translate gets +1 automatically
I need to add that to my voke macro...

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Originally Posted by Xeak

Starting FFXIV, to me, was supposed to be a new experience to make new friends in. Sadly it's hard to do outside of a linkshell because there's no real reason to party up in order to level, except I do in Behest a lot. And in Behest it seems people are so concerned with just getting it over with that it's hard to make friends there ... /sigh so I honestly can't see marriages being too big until they force us players to become more friendly. That's a change to the game I'm highly anticipating!

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I agree. I can honestly say my only reason for playing this game right now is so that I can be ready to do PARTY oriented content when it comes. hehe

btw nice derail attempt there xeak!

im all for marriage, and since we now have surnames, it would be necessary to allow us to change oru surnames! Though... Same s** mariages. no thanks. sorry i try not to be a hater about most stuff, but i must about this ><

I should mention... in FFXI I have friends who met in game and they both lived in different states but they moved in together now they are happily married in real life too lol.

Me and my wife... meh we met before FFXI but talks about anime and game got us together and we got married too... lol

Once we get both the mog house with a bed and marriage, the partying in XIV will get a whooole different meaning :D Maybe honeymoons in Mor Dhona for couples who like it spicy....

"Enjoy a pleasant time with your mate under the purple skies and Dodore's constant gazeee!!!" *sound of thunder* :p

Anywho, back to being serious. For the people wanting marriages, but not same s3x marriages; You do realize that if we indeed get an option to get married only to the opposite sex, there's going to be a major outbreak? As it should, imo. Besides, I don't think SE could come up with a plausible explanation why they didn't include both, in this day and age.

P.S. If they ever create Miqo'lalas babies, I want one as a pet! :p Baby-snatcher rank up!

Including same sex marriage is a must. I'd also like to see something like house sharing and bank sharing (when we actually get houses and banks ofcourse) for people that are married.

Wasn't there a post somewhere that said if marriages were implemented that they would include same sex? Unless that was an old interview from Tanaka's team. Not sure where YoshiP stands on that. But, as a straight man ... and yes I paused a moment just to emphasize that because I am straight (gonna get some flames on this now) ...I believe it's prejudice to gays who play this game if there is no same sex marriage because of "immoral" reasons. There's nothing wrong with two men or two women loving each other ... just whatever they do together should stay behind closed doors ...

And to comment on Veasna ... I agree with sharing houses, but not banks. What if the girl/guy you marry is a gold digger and married you just for your money? Within a few hours of being married they'll take everything, put it on a new character (when the mail system comes unless helped by an unsuspecting friends) delete that character and then you'll never hear from them again. Just a point of view I thought I'd express on that :/

Edit: I had to mark this as my 100th post hehe

Whatever two persons (or more) do together in that sense, regardless of their sexes, should stay behind closed doors. Just had to jump in on that :p

The shared house sounds interesting, although I'm conflicted a bit.... I'd like to see that as an additional and optional choice to private residences. I'd still want to keep my own house that no one can mess with or rearrange the furniture whenever they see fit >_> Maybe a shared common room that serves as a connection between the 2 houses with locked doors to private residences on both sides that open on invitation only? Or private rooms as addition to a shared house.... Same for storage, I could do with having both private and shared storage, but not with only having the shared one.

And since we don't actually have storage in form of a wooden chest or whatever, maybe the shared storage could be a butler NPC, much like retainers. Preferably a Moogle, but considering their rarity (judging from the storyline so far), I don't think we'll be seeing them in every house. Unless they find a "clever" way to write them into everyday life.

I was married in XI and I loved it! My rl bf and in-game husband were great friends so it worked out. We had tons of fun wandering the world of Vana'diel.

I wouldn't mind having marriage in XIV. I'd probably still just marry my bf or 'XI husband'. Same sex marriage doesn't bother me either.

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Originally Posted by Nuinn

Whatever two persons (or more) do together in that sense, regardless of their sexes, should stay behind closed doors. Just had to jump in on that :p

The shared house sounds interesting, although I'm conflicted a bit.... I'd like to see that as an additional and optional choice to private residences. I'd still want to keep my own house that no one can mess with or rearrange the furniture whenever they see fit >_> Maybe a shared common room that serves as a connection between the 2 houses with locked doors to private residences on both sides that open on invitation only? Or private rooms as addition to a shared house.... Same for storage, I could do with having both private and shared storage, but not with only having the shared one.

And since we don't actually have storage in form of a wooden chest or whatever, maybe the shared storage could be a butler NPC, much like retainers. Preferably a Moogle, but considering their rarity (judging from the storyline so far), I don't think we'll be seeing them in every house. Unless they find a "clever" way to write them into everyday life.

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I'm sure SE's clever writers will probably leave a lot of us players with stupid looks on our faces if they tried pulling that off. But I'd love to see a Moogle in a butler outfit! Yoshi, can we at least get a funny concept art of that for kicks and grins?

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Originally Posted by Xeak

And to comment on Veasna ... I agree with sharing houses, but not banks. What if the girl/guy you marry is a gold digger and married you just for your money? Within a few hours of being married they'll take everything, put it on a new character (when the mail system comes unless helped by an unsuspecting friends) delete that character and then you'll never hear from them again. Just a point of view I thought I'd express on that :/

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It would be nice if players can choose to have their banks and houses shared with their spouse. Theres a lot of players playing with their rl. spouses or rl. friends. If my husband runs off with my ingame stuff...i think that would be the least of my problems ;).

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Originally Posted by Veasna

It would be nice if players can choose to have their banks and houses shared with their spouse. Theres a lot of players playing with their rl. spouses or rl. friends. If my husband runs off with my ingame stuff...i think that would be the least of my problems ;).

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Real life PvP? ;P

if this game have marriage then it ll be the first p2p game I have see. My last exp with marriage system in a f2p is the world chat flood with e-lover-chat...look very silly

FFXI had the marriage system, but people didn't go flaunting it. All we can hope is that most of the people in FFXIV will be mature enough not to do that. And I saw most because we all know there will be those few immature ones who do.

^Check out ffxi marriage on youtube...you might get a cracked out jp commercial, but i mean in game stuff

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Originally Posted by Shneibel

if this game have marriage then it ll be the first p2p game I have see. My last exp with marriage system in a f2p is the world chat flood with e-lover-chat...look very silly

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Well its not really a f2p game, its just free -for now-.

I cant wait for marriage. I have a Lala i'm hoping to put a ring on ^%^

Count me in on this idea!

It's.. I don't know, just something I think all MMO's really ought have unless there's a very good reason otherwise. It's one of those little concession to the R and the P in the genre name that makes a fairly big difference even to the crowd doesn't generally enjoy emphasising those two letters so much.

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Originally Posted by Shneibel

if this game have marriage then it ll be the first p2p game I have see. My last exp with marriage system in a f2p is the world chat flood with e-lover-chat...look very silly

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And.. this one.. really? This is one of the old features. I don't know if it was integrated into game systems, but it was an officially supported part of Ultima Online - you know, the genre's grandfather shy of MUDs - and was a really anticipated feature of Ragnarok Online, the other huge influence on the genre aside from Everquest. Both of those are pay-to-play .. well, okay, Ragnarok went free to play a little ago, but even so, the marriage system was in years before that. And both those games were the better for it.

Generally, the appearance of the marriage system isn't unusual, it rather illustrates an MMO's highpoint, when the developers are starting to add all sorts of neat little extras and have really gotten into their stride. I think Ragnarok in general hit its highpoint, in fact, right around the time they added the adoption system - married players could adopt another character, and that character's sprite would be permanently turned into that of a child XD

But yes, I would love to see this, though admittedly I'd not be surprised if, like so many other MMORPGs, it's a feature that appears around the time Final Fantasy XIV can be confidently called mature.

I am all for marriages!

Though I personally don't lurk the bushes in Eorzea looking for a date, this is an RPG and I would love to see some romance floating around.

And yes please to the option to change surnames. I can see no greater joy in my day than hitting on a Mi'Qote with her husband standing RIGHT next to her. Especially if said husband is a moustached Lalafell :cool: