The game should have alcohol

[TeraRamis]

• It's a prominent aspect of most cultures, including Japan (getting hammered is such a huge element to most anime, both in terms of a right of passage, and as a humorous trope).
  
• An enormous amount of the RP in the game is bar-centric - either in terms of player-run establishments, or just milling around in the watering holes in the cities.
  
• Being drunk in MMORPGs is not a negative experience, nor is it a gateway to bad behavior out of game. I mean, first of all, we're doing much worse things to people, animals, etc. with our weapons. Second, most adults consume alcohol IRL, so I'm not sure how it could 'lead anyone down a dark path.' Third, it can produce hilarious results when handled correctly (screen going fuzzy/blurred/wavy; slurred speech; difficulty in character movement, etc.).
  
• It can actually have in-game mechanical uses - such as a boss that blows up a keg mid-fight, suddenly rendering your character inebriated and in need of a quick cleanse.
  
• It's immersive for the kind of experience that SE is clearly attempting to otherwise push - high-end, player-driven socialization.

[Biggle]

You can just say "XIV should have an alcohol system like WoW," because that's just what you described.

Also, I agree. It would be funny.

[Theodric]

Firmly agreed.

It's a classic fantasy trope for a bunch of adventurers to sit down and have a drink together after a successful quest. We see plenty of NPC's do just that, we can acquire alcohol based furniture for our house and the 'toast' emote can quite readily be taken as being a mug of mead or ale.

I'd like some more direct opportunities to, for example, have my character sit down and share a cup of sake with Hien only for for both of them to drink a little too much and find themselves captured by the Buduga!

[Wilford111]

How about noooooooo

[Theodric]

How about noooooooo

Why do you think it should not be the case?

[Naoki34]

Why do you think it should not be the case?

Just no, and then you just had to do it Rp, it's not like everything you do Rp really exists.

Drinking alcohol its already bad for most people.


let the WOL Drink water instead .

Fruit juice and tea, best drinks

[Theodric]

Just no, and then you just had to do it Rp, it's not like everything you do Rp really exists.

We can already build something like this in-game:



I'd like to go a step further and allow our characters to actually consume alcohol. I rarely drink alcohol myself but I'd rather not see fantasy settings stifled by people pushing for the fictional characters within to conform to misguided concepts of purity.

[Ath192]

Just no, and then you just had to do it Rp, it's not like everything you do Rp really exists.




Fruit juice and tea, best drinks

If your argument is just no then we can argue back just yes…. seems like we both have a valid opinion on the subject. Seems like Yoshi P smokes too, he probably drinks occasionally as well. Seems like a guy that can have a good time and thats probably why he can show us a good game.

[Awha]

Why do you think it should not be the case?

Same reason people are against a smoking emote. People are weird about vices. Think much of it boils largely because virtue signaling has become such the norm of as late people show their angst and disdain for vices as a means to show their quality of character to online strangers because that is the only venue where their voice can be heard.

Largely because many do not care IRL. This is just my own headcanon though based around my own personal experience and interactions with others.

I am all for a alcohol and smoking emote.

[ForctyusGold]

definetely no. im done with alcohol accepting culture around me , commercials everywhere . its nice idea, but no, just pls no