Marriage Quest finally on the horizon! Yay!

[Gnova]

I've seen lots of people in this thread and the ones that came before it explaining how gender restrictions in a marriage system would impact them. Stop making stuff up.

MOST does not equal all.
The percentage of people that actually use marriage in MMOs is tiny. The percentage of people that have strong views on this topic is much higher.

Good job taking half my post to make me look like I am on one side or the other.
I'm on the side of keep marriage out of the game so that part of the games population doesn't become polarized over a heated political topic.

Feelings are entrenched on both sides and a MMO isn't the place to resolve them.

[HakuroDK]

I am an openly gay man, but I also hate conflict when diplomacy can be used. Honestly, I think we shouldn't even have any kind of a marriage system at all because there's no real need for it. We're adventurers, we're not supposed to be settling down and starting a family. We're supposed to be defending Eorzea. I'm also a roleplayer and I enjoy the act of roleplaying, and I honestly don't mind seeing married couples who are adventurers, and there is nothing that says that they cannot say they are married.

My problem is when an actual, serious marriage SYSTEM gets implemented. Because then, if people get excluded, the excluded people will lose their minds. On the other side of that, if everyone is included, then the people who want exclusivity will lose their minds.

And then, you have the people who are asexual who will be completely overlooked by this design, and you have the polyamorous individuals who will feel shortchanged. I am neither asexual nor polyamorous, but I am well aware that people who fit into those categories and they are largely ignored or ridiculed for who they are.

I don't want any kind of a marriage system because of the controversy it brings. The cons, to me, just far outweigh the pros.

[Altijacek]

This quote wins the internet.

I live in Texas too XD

[Altijacek]

I think it's funny how I haven't seen a single poster on this thread against gay marriage irl...and we're still arguing XD
(If you're against gay marriage I respect your beliefs even if I don't agree, just stating that as far as I can tell after reading the whole thread, there is no one here that doesn't support gay marriage.)

[Keeroh]

I don't understand why there's so much of a fluffle about gender restrictions on marriage. I feel like it would be silly to limit it to male character/female character marriages due to there being reasons that have nothing to do with real-life orientations. (since I feel like that argument is just running in circles of people mad at eachother)
Content is content. Marriage content is content people want to explore. If their best friend in the game has the same gender character as them, that's quite frustrating- now they need to hunt down someone else who might not even explore the reaches of the marriage content with them because the aforementioned content-hunting friends both have female characters. My best friend and I always got married in games with the function, because it was fun! It was a huge bummer if the game didn't allow us to hitch up just because of a gender block. So much content we couldn't play with :<

[Pylfer]

One of the dumbest things to put into a video game.

If anything, you can do it for the perks that will no doubt come with being married and marriage housing and stuff along those lines. Just pick someone in your FC that has the same idea about it and shack up with them.

[Elim]

If anything, you can do it for the perks that will no doubt come with being married and marriage housing and stuff along those lines. Just pick someone in your FC that has the same idea about it and shack up with them.

Exactly. I'm hoping there will be perks to marrying, such being able to teleport to your partner. One of the people in my raid group already agreed to marry our characters if there are perks.

[Gnova]

If anything, you can do it for the perks that will no doubt come with being married and marriage housing and stuff along those lines. Just pick someone in your FC that has the same idea about it and shack up with them.

That sounds just like real marriage.
As a male you do it for the "perks" (I'll let you decide what the perks are) but regret your decision when you realize all the perks were front loaded to sell you on the concept, your partner wants you to change FCs because they don't like your guild mates, and then they use a pandora potion soon after the ceremony changing the character design enough that the loss of "perks" doesn't really bother you.

[Amelia_Pond_Behemoth]

Straight people flaunt their sexuality enough without having yet another thing they can hold over everyone else.

You mean like Straight Pride parades we hold every year, or how we have shouts in game either advertising or looking to join hetero friendly FC's? It's not like we never see shouts requesting LGBT friendly FC's. Just play the damn game!

[ItzKris]

I think its funny how the game will secretly endorse gay marriage since many people who play females in game are males.