LET ME MARRY MY RETAINER!!!!

[Windi]

I am really, really tempted to say "no" to this for the sole purpose of spiting every nerd in this forum ~

[Cyreil]

"I'm sorry my Love but, 'maintenance' is calling..."

-Servers go offline-

[Nocte]

I'd love to be able to marry my retainer, make it happen SE!

[Masekase_Hurricane]

Okay so, here it is. I have a lot of other people that feel the same way as me and I hope you guys actually get this and read it. I've had my retainer for a long time and I've always wanted to marry her. I mean, she's always there when i need her. She doesn't go off and flirt with other men (not that i know of anyway) And she fights day and night just to achieve ventures to make me happy. she even goes as far as stealing from other people so i can have housing items. My retainer is perfect for me and i so wish to marry her if you guys could give me the chance.

She goes off for 18hours and brings you back a few shards and you think she is working lol

[Magic-Mal]

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The reason why I believe promoting the "dating game" is a bad idea is because some, want to escape having to deal with it being a dating game lol. Simply because many times it goes very wrong once that wedding happen.. The "dating game" becomes a real thing to usually one of the spouses then problems start.

There are many many many that say they want to marry for friendship and that only. Does not necessarily mean they can have a deeper relationship.. it's more out of caution. Because people taking marriages too seriously is extremely common imo. There's a reason why many female posters in the hook-up thread here say "No IRL" in their posts

Promoting the dating game can promote that bad behavior.

[Archaell]

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Everything where two people are interacting can promote the bad behavior :P I am just saying it makes more sense to expand the options for the people who are already eternal bonded / or playing the dating game on whatever difficulty they prefer, rather than to introduce NPC marriages.

There are many many many that say they want to marry for friendship and that only. Does not necessarily mean they can have a deeper relationship.. it's more out of caution. Because people taking marriages too seriously is extremely common imo. There's a reason why many female posters in the hook-up thread here say "No IRL" in their posts

The reason is that females are evil and males emotional crybabies :P It's a little bit amusing that the sexist notion is that males push for the iRL part. Why? The women were always believed to be the emphatic and emotional sex. lol

Personally I do take the eternal bond seriously - in-game. I am not gonna be having fun in another girl's chocobo house while bonded etc. But it's important to set up the rules clearly and follow them. I see it a lot that player A is flirting with player B all the time and then they are surprised when the other one starts to like them too much.

In my opinion a lot of issues come from the "no-irl" being in the post, yet the player actually hoping for something more and not enforcing the "no-irl" part afterwards...

Like any other multiplayer task it requires certain level of cooperation and it's important to understand that not all the players are there to cater to you and it takes some trial and error. Atm. the eternal bond is pushing players to interact with others which I find awesome. Were there an option to avoid that I bet it would affect the current EB and prevent many friendships from being made.

[Daranion]

Wew, necroing a post 18 months old

[BraveheartRamo]

That's a good idea.

[Lokier]

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Couldn't respond last night, ran out of forum posts. Stupid limit!

This song > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4gPZPKJc0s

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They'll never understand our love, Haurchefant.

[LineageRazor]

*stuff*

While I have no objections to expanding options for the current Eternal Bond system, I think that that and this proposed NPC dating sim simply cannot be compared in any meaningful way. You can discuss all the ways that they could be similar all you want, but what it boils down to is this:

Eternal Bond involves real human beings, while NPC dating sim involves programmed waifus/husbandos.

With Eternal Bond, your partner is a REAL PERSON with real needs and feelings. NPCs are not. Real people have schedules and real-life obligations. NPCs do not. It's the whole reason you have freaks popping up in Japan insisting that 2D women are better than 3D women - there is no danger of hurting, or being hurt by a fantasy character.

I'm sure that folks in this thread are aware that the option exists to pair up with a real person via Eternal Bond, but that is not the fantasy they're trying to satisfy here. They want an in-game waifu or husbando that is always there for them at their convenience, has no needs that are not easy to satisfy, can never hurt or be hurt - an idealized fantasy romance. No matter how you might roleplay with your Eternal Bond partner, that's simply not something that you can achieve, because humans are humans, and humans are not ideal.