Quote Originally Posted by Zantetsuken View Post
SE should just set up an instanced gathering hall (have it cost 50k to reserve it for an hour or so) and let players handle their own events (weddings, funerals, domestic life-partner couplings, crafting competitions, lawsuit proceedings, board meetings, bunny jump contests, etc...)

Just stay away from the mess that was the FFXI wedding system.

On a personal note: In MMO games "Marriage" is really meaningless term.... It's not about starting a family/procreation or even sexual unity... so it's really just what... 'exclusive friendship'? BFF certificate? A way to give someone access to your stuff? (could just share login/pass for that)

So why have them? To celebrate your official bonding with a friend? That's fine, you can do that now without the devs wasting time building a system around it. If the game doesn't have a script running that gives your BBF party a thumbs up, then you are lacking something?? I find it hard to believe that one's emotional well-being is really dependent on a stamp of approval from an AI system, but if so, that person may have some RL issues they need to address.

TL : DR? A MMO "marriage" system is functionally useless and not worthy of serious attention. To the degree that it IS taken seriously, it becomes rather creepy/pathetic.
I wouldn't say it was purely meaningless. How do you know said people aren't dating/married in real life and are playing the game together as a couple. As a matter of fact I know a married couple who play the game they use the same last name as each other and I know they'd probably get married too in the game as well. Also if it shows in your information when someone checks you that you're married to so and so (if they did something like that) it is less of a chance for some unwanted attention. It's not that you have to marry someone it's the ability to have that choice.

You may think it's meaningless and if people take it too seriously to be creepy pathetic then, I'm sorry about that not everyone else sees it the same way.