Tombstones with writable messages [dev request]

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07-31-2018, 05:54 AM
DamianFatale

Tombstones with writable messages [dev request]

It would be cool if we got tombstones, wooden crosses, and other shrine like items that can have messages inscribed on them when you click on them.

It’s inevitable that people die in the real world, and that some of those people happen to be friends that we spend a lot of our time in game with. We should be able to place down a grave, or shrine for them. Mourning is essential to help with healing over the loss of a loved one.

This would be an easy solution for those that wish they would make memorials.
07-31-2018, 06:09 AM
Paladinleeds

Now you see, this I can get behind. But I feel that separate internal and external options would need to be made available. The thing is, these aren't special unique memorial items, they're a more generic item that can be used across the board. Perhaps they could function similar to guestbooks allowing people to come and write their messages of condolences?
07-31-2018, 12:37 PM
DamianFatale

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Originally Posted by Paladinleeds

Now you see, this I can get behind. But I feel that separate internal and external options would need to be made available. The thing is, these aren't special unique memorial items, they're a more generic item that can be used across the board. Perhaps they could function similar to guestbooks allowing people to come and write their messages of condolences?

I love that idea! As long as they are RMT safe. It would be offensive if they just left messages on them to advertise.
07-31-2018, 01:27 PM
Sigma-Astra

It'll be added towards the Cash Shop for sure and aside from the Eternal Bonding Ceremony, we'll have the Eternal Parting Ceremonies. Get a plain rock with the free version and a nice marble tombstone if you pay $20. I'm calling it now.

Funerals are not cheap in real life, I can't imagine that they would be in XIV either.
07-31-2018, 03:38 PM
DamianFatale

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Originally Posted by Sigma-Astra

It'll be added towards the Cash Shop for sure and aside from the Eternal Bonding Ceremony, we'll have the Eternal Parting Ceremonies. Get a plain rock with the free version and a nice marble tombstone if you pay $20. I'm calling it now.

Funerals are not cheap in real life, I can't imagine that they would be in XIV either.

The point is a way to dedicate the passing of a loved one. I would be fine if it were in the cash shop for a modest price, but a whole ceremony? I think that’s excessive, and might be a bit in privacy invasive. A simple furniture, so that people can choose to mourn in their own way would be perfect. Maybe also a picture frame that lets you save in game screenshots could come in hand as well.
07-31-2018, 08:32 PM
Vidu

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Originally Posted by DamianFatale

I love that idea! As long as they are RMT safe. It would be offensive if they just left messages on them to advertise.

It could (and should) work just like the Message Books we got: With settings that allow you to delete comments or only display them once you "confirmed" them. I doubt that RMT bots would use them to advertise, but offensive comments could come from elsewhere...
07-31-2018, 10:54 PM
M0xie

Only if they do this with tomestones.
07-31-2018, 11:12 PM
Fawkes

To me games are escapism and I don't think I would want to see a morbid reminder of mortality in my neighbors yard.
07-31-2018, 11:35 PM
Vidu

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Originally Posted by Fawkes

To me games are escapism and I don't think I would want to see a morbid reminder of mortality in my neighbors yard.

Given that the game itself confronts you with mortality (the very second dungeon involves tombs and an underground graveyard, we have a place literally called Palace of the Dead, a graveyard in Eastern Thanalan thats involved in quite a few quests, a memorial in Coerthas for a beloved character... and thats not even going into discussing characters dying) thats a very weird and weak stance to take.

If character deaths are different to you because its not a real person dying, you can always pretend the memorial is for a player-character, not the player themself - I could see people put those up for someone who stopped playing for whatever reason, not only the most... permanent one.
It doesnt has to be a giant grave with "ONE DAY YOU WILL DIE TOO" written on it...
07-31-2018, 11:52 PM
Lambdafish

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Originally Posted by Sigma-Astra

It'll be added towards the Cash Shop for sure and aside from the Eternal Bonding Ceremony, we'll have the Eternal Parting Ceremonies. Get a plain rock with the free version and a nice marble tombstone if you pay $20. I'm calling it now.

Funerals are not cheap in real life, I can't imagine that they would be in XIV either.

Nice troll bait, the guest book isn't on the mog station and this is a similar idea

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Originally Posted by DamianFatale

I would be fine if it were in the cash shop for a modest price

Please don't go down that rabbit hole, if this was considered it should be ingame
08-01-2018, 02:38 AM
Sigma-Astra

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Originally Posted by Lambdafish

Nice troll bait, the guest book isn't on the mog station and this is a similar idea

Just because it's an opinion that you don't like or agree with, doesn't mean it's troll bait. People need to stop resorting to those tactics every time they can't handle differing opinions.

It's completely possible for SE to go down that route and you know it. Don't get your hopes up that it never possibly could.
08-01-2018, 02:46 AM
Lambdafish

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Originally Posted by Sigma-Astra

Just because it's an opinion that you don't like or agree with, doesn't mean it's troll bait

It is troll bait because this thread had nothing to do with the cash shop, and you decided to bring it up anyway knowing full well how divisive people are about cash shop items.
08-01-2018, 02:48 AM
Sigma-Astra

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Originally Posted by Lambdafish

It is troll bait because this thread had nothing to do with the cash shop, and you decided to bring it up anyway knowing full well how divisive people are about cash shop items.

Or, and bear with me here....I brought it up because it's quite possible that SE could or would make an Eternal Parting Ceremony depending on how popular the request for tombstones are if they don't do it the message book way. Please stop being paranoid and reading into motives that aren't really there. It's a forum, not an echo chamber.
08-01-2018, 11:24 AM
DamianFatale

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Originally Posted by Sigma-Astra

Or, and bear with me here....I brought it up because it's quite possible that SE could or would make an Eternal Parting Ceremony depending on how popular the request for tombstones are if they don't do it the message book way. Please stop being paranoid and reading into motives that aren't really there. It's a forum, not an echo chamber.

Eternal Parting could he helpful for players to mourn, but if it happened, then one would need to not earn anything from it that you can’t already get. Tying unique items to a death feature would feel cheap. It’d be better to just put a tombstone for sale from some NPC, so that everyone can get it.
08-01-2018, 03:25 PM
Sigma-Astra

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Originally Posted by DamianFatale

Eternal Parting could he helpful for players to mourn, but if it happened, then one would need to not earn anything from it that you can’t already get. Tying unique items to a death feature would feel cheap. It’d be better to just put a tombstone for sale from some NPC, so that everyone can get it.

Yea, I wouldn't want the unique items to be tied to it all that much either. It really depends on how they go about with it and if they do intend to make a ceremony out of the deal, not to cheapen its value.