Please alter Ceremony Reservation requirements!

So it's 8:55am, I was lucky enough to have the day off work so I thought I'd run over to the Sanctum and grab me and my partner a nice time that'll suit most, if not all, of the people in the FC.

9am hits, I go to book a nice pm time and-oh... what the f***? I CANNOT place a reservation unless my partner, WHO ALSO WORKS, is online with me right there as well.

Is this some sick joke??

So basically all the good times are open to those who don't have jobs or are just lucky enough to have the day off on the SAME day, effectively making my Platinum purchase useless in regards to the reservation placements, ooh you can reserve a whole 2 hours earlier than standard planners... which means moot as it's still a working day.

So by the time my partner is back online ALL the decent pm times will be gone and the only thing left will be ridiculous am times which no-one will want to get up stupidly early for... cheers SE.

Allow us to reserve a time ON OUR OWN!!

"Is this some sick joke??"

I feel your pain, good sir. But that gave me a good laugh.

Hope everything works out for you and yours!

The more time that passes since the Eternal Bond was released means the more slots open up. Everyone rushed to get their slot first and now there are a lot of free slots. My BF and I still haven't got a good slot for us and our friends to join us but with patience we will be able to get a good time slot :).

I don't know who designed that reservation system, but I'm confident that they hate all humanity because it's pretty much the most jacked up, evil thing in the world.

I 100% Agree and understand (but don't understand this system...).

My husband was working too when I was able to reserve, the thing is as he is my real life husband I just connected his account on his computer and was able to do the reservation...
If your partner is not a real (close) friend IRL I sure don't advise to give your account ID to the other person so this is a real problem that some of my ingame friends have too (or the other person could connect his character in the game before going to work but this is just crazy...).

They should really add for example a pre-reservation to bind the two future partners (because I think this is the real problem here, you can't reserve without him because the game doesnt know "who" is your future partner) before the real reservation for example or let you select him via your friend list, dunno...

I totally agree that this is messed up. My hubby got the highest tier for Eternal Bond but we could not schedule because I could not be online at that time, due to work. Was it even stated in -any- of the quests that BOTH players have to be online to schedule? Except for, you know, at the exact moment when you try to schedule the ceremony?

If you already have the bands and have gone that far with the quest, it means that they have mostly agreed on everything. If people don't agree on the schedule, they can always re-schedule or cancel. What about friends in different timezones who want to use the Eternal Bond feature? What about people even in the same timezones but with different work schedule?

There never should have been a "reservation system". It should havd been instanced since the beginning. Square-Enix is mad to push an entire server into such a schedule.

Could've made it 1 day allowance for platinum members instead of 1 hour. How hard can it be? I'm curious what the devs were thinking when they were making the marriage reservation system.

Keep in mind that the reservation times are kinda...not worth observing anyway. When I got my snazzy 11pm wedding (this super works for us), it was 2pm on Tuesday. The reservations don't close and I just kept an eye out from day to day. I would just randomly go back to the East Shroud and check up on the times.

Some people end up rescheduling so time slots open up accordingly. If I bothered to wait until Friday in some A.M time, I would have been upset. Why wait until 4am to schedule (or reschedule in my case since maintenance ended up eating my wedding) when I can just pick something else at my own leisure?

That being said, why did they bother with the reservation system anyway? It could've been a superfluous thing where the NPCs jokingly set a date for you (24 hrs from then or something) and then you head to the chapel whenever. It's an instanced zone anyway so why put people through these hoops? Reservations made sense in FFXI where you had an actual GM (who was a live person) officiate the ceremony for you.

"Doesnt work for me so it should be changed!!!"

Yeah, it sucks the timing doesnt suit for you, but there are other countries where its fine. Its a japanese game and in japan, the reservations open up at 6pm. For once I was glad, Im in australia which meant 7pm for me, normally Im out of luck because it caters to the NA crowd.

But really, it says right there on the site you need both people there to book, its to make sure one person doesnt make all the choices without the other's knowledge/consent so you can avoid conflicts later, its to make sure it works for the both of you. You can't come to the forums and complain because you didn't read what's on the site.

At least as the weeks go on, it'll become easier to book a time you want. The first night it opened there was like a hundred people standing on the NPC, many people summoning goobbue mounts to hide it, and slots all filled up in seconds.

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Originally Posted by Neuflune

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It tells you when the quest sends you to the NPC that you reserve your weddings with. You may not be able to reserve at that moment in time, but you can still read what the reservation NPC has to say before leaving and coming back to actually reserve. My partner and I both read it and knew we were suppose to be there.

I'm still waiting for the "elope to Costa del Sol" option for marriages.

It seems like a lot of effort. :s

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Originally Posted by Ashkendor

I'm still waiting for the "elope to Costa del Sol" option for marriages.

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That's another thing! Whatever happened to our venue options!? They once talked about how players would eventually be able to choose which venue they wanted!

What venue is that, SE? The sanctum, the sanctum, or the other sanctum?? What happened to the venues!? *table flip*

I demand to use the Costa resort and have a beach wedding option!

I don't mind the reservation system, but the reset should be in the prime time of the server's location. I had to get up at 3 AM and my fiance had to take off work to book ours....

The reservation system is something I still find a tad ridiculous, but it works well enough at this point I suppose - except for the fact the only time to reserve early seems to be at the crack of dawn, when most normal people are either asleep or having to get ready for/are already at work.

Either they need to fix the "you both need to be on to reserve a slot" thing, or they need to make the reservation window not in the wee hours of the early morning. I'm already worrying constantly about how my boyfriend and I are going to be able to reserve a time.

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Originally Posted by Dijana

its to make sure one person doesnt make all the choices without the other's knowledge/consent so you can avoid conflicts later, its to make sure it works for the both of you.

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You can both make seperate preferences of the ceremony itself and synchronise them with your partner at a later time... but you can't grab 1 time then discuss it while you have that slot reserved, and if it can't be agreed on then it'll become vacant again, I don't see what the issue would be if this were the case.

Also I'm not sure how it's "catered for NA" when the reset time for the US is Friday at 1am for PST, 2am for CST and 3am for EST.

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Originally Posted by Elim

It tells you when the quest sends you to the NPC that you reserve your weddings with.

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Eh, I just re-read the super long The Ties That Bind and saw that the couple must form a party of two and be both equipped with the bond items. So it is in the quest.

It's still obnoxious. Wedding settings can be done individually and then the couple will choose which one to use. And as pointed out, the wedding is instanced so it's weird that it has to be reserved.

And about this being a "Japanese game", they already made the decision to include NA and EU servers so those should be taken into account. Granted, my timezone isn't that far from Japan's but I reckon it's troublesome for those in EU and NA. If they really were adamant about keeping the reset times strictly JP, why is the weekly reset done on Tuesdays 5pm JST and not Mondays 12am JST? They can make adjustments if they really want to.

It took me and my partner a month in a half to get a decent time... I've attended weddings that had... not-so-decent times like the last one I attended was at 12pm Saturday (today) and only 3 people were there... yeah choosing the right time is kinda important unless you want the saddest most lonely wedding ever. Still 1 and a half months for me and my partner (also using platinum)I definitely agree with you that this reservation system is stupid.

It is a very lame system. What I noticed people doing is that they form a party, and whoever can't make it in reservation time AFKs by the NPC. Therefore they are both there when the hour ticks.

It kinda sucks you have to go through all this to reserve time but what to do.