Can SE at least continue updating the features of Eternal Bond?

We're hitting 2nd Anniversary and we're too lazy to celebrate again because the theme is just same thing with no variety. Can SE update Eternal Bond already please? At least the music and the color need more variety :(

While they're at it can they let us wanderers and travelers attend people's EB tyvm.

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Originally Posted by Knot_D

We're hitting 2nd Anniversary and we're too lazy to celebrate again because the theme is just same thing with no variety. Can SE update Eternal Bond already please? At least the music and the color need more variety :(

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Can you at least find something entertaining to use as bait?

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Originally Posted by Knot_D

We're hitting 2nd Anniversary and we're too lazy to celebrate again because the theme is just same thing with no variety. Can SE update Eternal Bond already please? At least the music and the color need more variety :(

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Yeah SE! Please add a fully "fleshed" out bunnymoon for the couple! With cutscenes and everything!

Even though this is bait. He is right. New colors and options would be cool.

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Originally Posted by Reap00

Can you at least find something entertaining to use as bait?

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I don't get what trolls like OP want to accomplish. Is it just attention? On Reddit these trolls would get banned within the hour. Here idfk who's who anymore.

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Originally Posted by Nyxs

Even though this is bait. He is right. New colors and options would be cool.

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:confused: I'm confused how this is a bait, literally I got another notification after my 1st anniversary last year to do ceremony again.

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachmen...kupYELht2l.png

At least they should give more meaningful way to celebrate the anniversary IMO...

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Originally Posted by dansetal

I don't get what trolls like OP want to accomplish. Is it just attention? On Reddit these trolls would get banned within the hour. Here idfk who's who anymore.

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Accomplish what? Is it wrong to ask an update for Eternal Bonding? At least check the history before you accuse me as Skiros.

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Originally Posted by Knot_D

:confused: I'm confused how this is a bait, literally I got another notification after my 1st anniversary last year to do ceremony again.

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachmen...kupYELht2l.png

At least they should give more meaningful way to celebrate the anniversary IMO...

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Bait or not, again, there is a point to be made. I have yet to experience this but my husband in game has and has said it's basically the exact same thing as the original wedding. I find that to be a bit underwhelming since it's an entirely different occasion and should have some differences. Something fun like the minigame we had for Valentine's Day this year would be an idea.

I don't think we need a honeymoon or anything like that lol, but a way to make the anniversary more special instead of just a copy-cat wedding would be appreciated.

Have no personal interest in the Eternal Bonding thing, but I don't see why they shouldn't throw some updates to it. Change the anniversary around a bit? Sure, why not.
I wouldn't really like having the exact same event for every holiday every year, so see no reason why bondings can't get a little love, even if it affects a smaller number of players.

As a person having no interest in it, I've no idea how it works. Can you customise the ceremony in any way? Change colours, music, stuff like that? Basically make it "your" ceremony instead of "oh this looks like everyone else's" ceremony? Genuine question :)

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Originally Posted by Vrahjin

As a person having no interest in it, I've no idea how it works. Can you customise the ceremony in any way? Change colours, music, stuff like that? Basically make it "your" ceremony instead of "oh this looks like everyone else's" ceremony? Genuine question :)

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Basically you can change the decoration's color, the lightning, the music of every session, how your entrance looks like (with gondola or just walk), how you celebrate your wedding (by kissing, sign a paper, or just a toast), and how you end the party (by riding the wedding chocobo or just walk out).

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Originally Posted by dansetal

I don't get what trolls like OP want to accomplish. Is it just attention? On Reddit these trolls would get banned within the hour. Here idfk who's who anymore.

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OP is most likely a Gaius alt. Block and ignore.

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Originally Posted by thevanguard

OP is most likely a Gaius alt. Block and ignore.

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Originally Posted by LianaThorne

Bait or not, again, there is a point to be made.

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Doesn't matter if there's a point. The moment you post in one of their threads the troll wins. I realize the irony as I'm bumping this bait thread but alas.

Bait thread. Report and move on.

Guys, I genuinely don't think he's a Gaius alt. He's got far too many posts, nuanced opinions, and a history back two years.

Plus it's actually pretty reasonable to ask for a small update in the EB system, or at least a way to allow wanderers and travellers to attend.

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Originally Posted by Nyxs

Even though this is bait. He is right. New colors and options would be cool.

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my partner and I celebrated our third ceremony yesterday and I was thinking the same thing.

wouldnt it be nice I thought, if they added some options especially for those that are just having a small ceremony. its a big venus after all, doesnt need to be SRO but could make it seem a bit populated

1. the option to add in random npc's. you are the 'warrior of light' after all, it would be reasonable to expect one or two notable npcs, maybe even alpha to pop in
2. random moogles and slyphs checking in to see what was going on

I mean its nice that they notify you on anniversaries, its a nice touch. but after delivering food, packages, what have you through the known and unknown world, would make sense that some of the people you helped, might wander in.

It's been the same formula since the day I Bonded six years ago. Why change something that works?

The Anniversary lets you replay the moments back then. If you want to change things out, speak to the Sanctum Acolyte to divorce, and then redo the Ceremony. There were several options and 'packages' to choose from.

I just ran through the recording I made for the ceremony. Very nice memories, but there are nicer memories that have been made since. Celebrate the new moments on your anniversary.

I wouldn’t mind seeing something new for the anniversaries… it would be nice to have something different than just an exact replay of the wedding ceremony. And your guests already have the “party favor” minions by now, so maybe give different ones depending on how long the couple has been married?

Skiros I know you're jealous because 4 of your accounts get banned because of your own action but you said yourself what happened if you derailed the topic and accusing with forum tag right? Please think better next time :)

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Originally Posted by DPZ2

It's been the same formula since the day I Bonded six years ago. Why change something that works?

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It's not about the "change something that works", you see yourself for 6 years since Eternal Bonding released, they keep using same music and reward to attendees who already get the minion right? Even people want their friends from other server and data center to attend their wedding. The system is too old already and need an update.

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Originally Posted by DPZ2

The Anniversary lets you replay the moments back then. If you want to change things out, speak to the Sanctum Acolyte to divorce, and then redo the Ceremony. There were several options and 'packages' to choose from.

I just ran through the recording I made for the ceremony. Very nice memories, but there are nicer memories that have been made since. Celebrate the new moments on your anniversary.

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Why would I need to divorce and redo the Ceremony again?? That's a waste of money since we already did it with Platinum version.

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Originally Posted by DPZ2

It's been the same formula since the day I Bonded six years ago. Why change something that works?

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Exactly. The current system is fine as is. OP is just trying to stir up drama.

How in the hell can asking for an update to eternal bonding be bait? Bait for what? What negative reaction could he possibly be trying to incite by asking for an update.

Is he Skiros? Yeah. But if the years I have seen him on the forums, he has never trolled on knot_d. Other than himself.

Y'all need to relax and use some critical thinking before claiming "bait" and "trolling".

Obsessive.

Man how are people this quick to accuse others of being alts, this is silly. OP's suggestion is way too niche and inoffensive to be bait, come on now

And here i'am wishing there was a divorce feature with a drama cinematic and of course a mount :3

Knot isn't Skiros. He just has the unfortunate luck that Skiros and alts use the same face.

Quality moderation on this forum, folks.

Didn't they say they were working on a second venue for EB a while back? Though now that I think more about it, that might have been just before COVID hit. If they had been, it probably got pushed into a closet and forgotten.

But there's nothing wrong with asking for an update to the Ceremony. The 3 ceremony types have gotten pretty stale over time (even if it seems like 80% of ceremonies are the moogle kiss). With the graphics update under way, it would also be a good time to update the look of the Sanctum and decorations a bit.

There's also nothing wrong with wanting the anniversary ceremony to be different from the wedding though I wouldn't hold my breath on it happening since the anniversary is essentially a freebie instead of requiring a new fee.

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Originally Posted by Jojoya

Didn't they say they were working on a second venue for EB a while back? Though now that I think more about it, that might have been just before COVID hit. If they had been, it probably got pushed into a closet and forgotten.

But there's nothing wrong with asking for an update to the Ceremony. The 3 ceremony types have gotten pretty stale over time (even if it seems like 80% of ceremonies are the moogle kiss). With the graphics update under way, it would also be a good time to update the look of the Sanctum and decorations a bit.

There's also nothing wrong with wanting the anniversary ceremony to be different from the wedding though I wouldn't hold my breath on it happening since the anniversary is essentially a freebie instead of requiring a new fee.

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Originally Posted by Knot_D

At least check the history before you accuse me as Skiros.

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Or they could look at your character profile. The trolls in question don't go to the effort of getting all jobs on their forum avatars to max level.

I legitimately don't see how this thread is bait at all.

More options for anniversaries and weddings would be really nice. My partner and I have been married for 5 years and we don't have any reason to want to do our anniversaries.

At least one new venue with a few options to choose in there! Having an Il Mheg wedding would be a dream come true.

I don't know.. this doesn't seem to be a troll thread- I try to do a 'new' attempt to each post I bother responding to, so occasionally I know someone is known for messing with the forum but the post seems interesting enough to engage with anyways, besides I've seen people who were entirely serious being called troll because they just didn't happen to have the most popular opinion or at least for that thread, but that does mean I don't really keep a troll 'log' in my mind so I'm bad at saying if they're or not.. I more remember how someone might argue their ideas whether I agree with or not (more likely to remember someone likes to shut down conversations without engaging by saying 'lore', even if that ends up being wrong in the end anyways lol- doesn't mean they're bad just.. like "ah yes.. there is the logic that doesn't actually say what they think it says and has historically not held up, but people like to upvote anyways as if it is meaningful.. but thanks to that now the conversation appears to be dead / shifted into arguments rather than what / why might be fun. /sigh").

So I don't feel this is a troll thread, and the logic itself seems particularly reasonable "I want to do it again, but doing it again is pointless, please let me do it again in a way that makes it not pointless".. That's.. solid. Maybe I don't care for it (never used the bonding system), but why does that matter to determine they're a troll or not. Or in other words If I was the dev (am not) I would have bonding system even though I have no intention to use it.

It gets so tiring to see the same 'bait' and 'troll'-replies in every other thread.

If the OP isn't interesting or only offer bad takes, it wouldn't gain traction and just fade away. Instead the bait/troll-replies both poison every sort of discourse and constantly bump the thread at the same time.

A case of the 'medicine' being way worse than the perceived 'disease'.

It would be nice for your anniversary if they gave you a different style wedding outfit and for gold and platinum a different style Chocobo mount. They do need to add more flower and music options to it. Wish it would happen before my third anniversary that's coming up in a few months.

Are you guys just going to call any complaint thread a bait titanmen thread now? thats pretty pathetic tbh.

OP seems pretty sensible to me

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Originally Posted by Reimmi

Are you guys just going to call any complaint thread a bait titanmen thread now? thats pretty pathetic tbh.

OP seems pretty sensible to me

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Complain are fine but why not positive。。。 and enjoy game for what it is

Some people。。。 always complain complain ：（

But game is enjoy and many reasons to find happiness in ：）

This poster should write the more happy， positive topic ：）

Many of his topic are sad and negative。。。

Wedding system already beautiful， adding more is nice， but there are already many to enjoy。。。 ：）

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Originally Posted by Reimmi

Are you guys just going to call any complaint thread a bait titanmen thread now? thats pretty pathetic tbh.

OP seems pretty sensible to me

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Some people have always been like that. They're honestly as bad as people they oppose.

That said I do think people are a little bit on edge. There's been more than a handful of alts/bad actors around lately. People are tired. OP's just unfortunate that they came after them.

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Originally Posted by BeautyWhitemage

Complain are fine but why not positive。。。 and enjoy game for what it is

Some people。。。 always complain complain ：（

But game is enjoy and many reasons to find happiness in ：）

This poster should write the more happy， positive topic ：）

Many of his topic are sad and negative。。。

Wedding system already beautiful， adding more is nice， but there are already many to enjoy。。。 ：）

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Game doesn't improve if we just say nice things about it my friend
don't view complaints as a negative thing, view them as passionate players wanting their great game to be better! there is absolutely nothing wrong with expressing dispelasure with aspects of your favorite game. we all just want to enjoy the game

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Originally Posted by hynaku

It would be nice for your anniversary if they gave you a different style wedding outfit and for gold and platinum a different style Chocobo mount. They do need to add more flower and music options to it. Wish it would happen before my third anniversary that's coming up in a few months.

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This also. More places to hold a wedding. Some people may like a forest,pirate,water,desert,kugane,snow,flower field,amaurot,moon,space themed wedding venue.

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Originally Posted by Reimmi

Are you guys just going to call any complaint thread a bait titanmen thread now? thats pretty pathetic tbh.

OP seems pretty sensible to me

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Mods have decided. OP is banned because they can see his IP and know that he's just an alt.

The show must go on.

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Originally Posted by Nyxs

This also. More places to hold a wedding. Some people may like a forest,pirate,water,desert,kugane,snow,flower field,amaurot,moon,space themed wedding venue.

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Yes, it would be nice. Would more people purchase the bracelets? Enough to justify the changes? I'd probably do so, but only SE has the actual numbers to determine if this would be worth the resources.

And speaking of resources, all of those venues would still have to fit the theme (and the location) for the current Ceremony of Eternal Bonding. It is, after all, a highly scheduled event, and open world would not be possible. Something like the forest or pirates would be difficult to believe are part of the Temple of the Twelve.

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Originally Posted by DPZ2

Yes, it would be nice. Would more people purchase the bracelets? Enough to justify the changes? I'd probably do so, but only SE has the actual numbers to determine if this would be worth the resources.

And speaking of resources, all of those venues would still have to fit the theme (and the location) for the current Ceremony of Eternal Bonding. It is, after all, a highly scheduled event, and open world would not be possible. Something like the forest or pirates would be difficult to believe are part of the Temple of the Twelve.

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tbf, their other mmo had weddings out in the open, no special place designated in an instance. In XI you could pay your gil (between 10k-80k) for the 3 main city-states areas or the chapel in Jeuno with prices depending on which location in the city-state, or you could pay a premium to have it at an area of your choosing: one of lakes in Zi'tah Sanctuary, Hall of the Gods, Kazham, Norg (for the perfect pirate wedding), etc. As long as your guests could get there and you had the necessary gil to do it, you could. Two popular places that are listed on the wiki for the old way are Bibiki Bay (tropical islands that are really quite beautiful) and Hall of the Gods, and both are listed at 240k gil. In a game where that kind of money was hard to come by if you weren't farming mats to sell... well. :D In the really early days, GMs used to officiate them as well. It's done by NPCs now, but the GMs doing so before was pretty neat.

They changed it from the old system to a newer system at the end of 2009, but it's still open world, at a set time and place. Doesn't look like there's gil involved anymore since obtaining it is much easier than back in the early days. You just put in a form for a date and time you want to "reserve" an area, figure out some decor, and you have yourself a wedding.

For XIV, adding a closed-off map area that's only enterable by having the invite to trade to a gatekeep on a highly-desired map would be pretty simple. Have it retain some of the sights from the map, such as, say, a forested waterfall in the Shroud, a desert oasis in Thanalan, a tropical island for Limsa, or on the moon with the world in the bg. They don't really have a way to do layered instances, seeing as how they don't have them beyond the numbered system we have now (for, say, "Mor Dhona has been built up already" for those who have completed ARR and "it's still in ruins mostly" for a fresh msq lv50 player... would really love if they'd figure that out) so doing that would require them to... actually do that :D but having a map area? Easily doable. Release areas after the heavy traffic has died down so wedding traffic doesn't add to people trying to get their msq done and it'd work just fine, I think.

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Originally Posted by rainichan

For XIV, adding a closed-off map area that's only enterable by having the invite to trade to a gatekeep on a highly-desired map would be pretty simple. Have it retain some of the sights from the map, such as, say, a forested waterfall in the Shroud, a desert oasis in Thanalan, a tropical island for Limsa, or on the moon with the world in the bg. They don't really have a way to do layered instances, seeing as how they don't have them beyond the numbered system we have now (for, say, "Mor Dhona has been built up already" for those who have completed ARR and "it's still in ruins mostly" for a fresh msq lv50 player... would really love if they'd figure that out) so doing that would require them to... actually do that :D but having a map area? Easily doable. Release areas after the heavy traffic has died down so wedding traffic doesn't add to people trying to get their msq done and it'd work just fine, I think.

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The current one is just an instance so it could def work. And as for resources it wouldnt be much as well.