Quote Originally Posted by Magic-Mal View Post
Then people wouldn't marry because they get everything before the wedding, making the wedding pointless. Why do the ceremony when you can just get your clothes, mount, ring, and call it a day?
WHO CARES? It's not your $20. I give approximately zero beans who chooses to actually go through with a Ceremony of Eternal Bonding once the money is safely in Square Enix's hand. I don't feel like it "cheapens" my own Eternal Bond in any way, since tons of people meet up all the time in their FC, on Reddit, or even in the megathread on this very FORUM to go through the bond ceremony when their relationship is tepid, if not purely platonic, if not outright SYMBIOTIC at best. It only "means" whatever it means to the individual, and trying to attach your own definition to it is supercilious.

It's insanely stupid that players can pay money for a service (BOTH players, mind you!), and one person arbitrarily canceling a previous arrangement means that NO ONE gets the goods. You can make all the analogies to real life weddings that you want, but the fact is that this is a video game and it's practically fraudulent that you can pay money for a service and wind up receiving absolutely nothing from that service in the end.