Marriage feedback [inofficial Poll]

[Nix]

@ Hane; I think it's like walking on thin ice personally, I'd love to see it in but while being able to sidestep a lot of the stigma associated with marriage. I agree that it'll be impossible to please everyone, but I'm also of the mind that we can find some sort of diplomacy here^^

There's been suggestions of changing the name to something else to shake the stigma associated with the word 'marriage', also making it a pact ceremony where players can define what that pact means to them - whether it's lovers or best friends swearing allegiance to eachother. Also there was the idea that it should be player-run instead of GM-run like it was earlier in XI, so that square could just say 'we're allowing characters to marry [or whatever term] eachother' and not even talk about the same gender issue at all but leaving genders unrestricted.

If we don't get SSCM in the game, I don't think a lot of people will leave... they'll certainly be a bit disheartened but I think that aside from marriage there are plenty of other things to draw them to the game. While marriage isn't central to any of us ingame (Who plays an MMO strictly just to get married?), the consensus among the majority who've voted is that they would be disappointed if it was restricted to only a certain portion of the playerbase. D:

[Warlock]

I already gave my feedback on the page before this, that being I don't care what they add as long as it's an afterthought and the actual game is that I want to play gets 99.9% of the focus on development. Also, you will never, and I repeat never, please everyone and on this subject especially. The smartest move any company would make in regards to an mmo is not even put it in(same sex that is), but eh idc they will sure as hell get a lot of attention if they actually did though.

Maybe we could give enough feedback to abort the idea of weddings completely

[Aenarion]

Maybe we could give enough feedback to abort the idea of weddings completely

the odds of that happening is probably about as good as people giving enough feedback to be able to keep their free relics

[Nix]

the odds of that happening is probably about as good as people giving enough feedback to be able to keep their free relics

WHAT DO YOU MEAN I CAN'T KEEP MY BOW?! Q_Q

/saaaaarcasm

[AmyNeudaiz]

If i don't give a damn about marriage in a MMO i have to say so as well or Yoshi-P will think everyone won't touch ARR if there isn't cheesy couples wedding BS in it....hooking up through this game is laughable and if you are already married IRL why bother? stop trying to put cheesy romance in our action/adventure MMO save us the couple drama. there are way more important things about this game than weddings

Yes, because you're going to totally see everyone in wedding dresses and tuxedos hopping in front of you 24/7 while you try to kill mobs.

Why must people want them to remove it so bad?
Is video game marriage going to ruin real marriage? Is adding this making the core of FFXIV to get married in game even though it's 100% optional? Is it going to make people not play? Is this taking up "resources" that would otherwise be spent elsewhere? No, no, no and no, it will not. It only adds to the game and if you don't want to partake, don't but that doesn't mean we can't.

[Warlock]

Yes, because you're going to totally see everyone in wedding dresses and tuxedos hopping in front of you 24/7 while you try to kill mobs.

Why must people want them to remove it so bad?
Is video game marriage going to ruin real marriage? Is adding this making the core of FFXIV to get married in game even though it's 100% optional? Is it going to make people not play? Is this taking up "resources" that would otherwise be spent elsewhere? No, no, no and no, it will not. It only adds to the game and if you don't want to partake, don't but that doesn't mean we can't.

Marriage doesn't exist in Eorzea for a reason Miner's guild is all i need

[RoxyLalonde]

Marriage doesn't exist in Eorzea for a reason Miner's guild is all i need

Actually the Miner's guild was destroyed by Buhamut and the .... questionable women there all got married in ARR.

[Colvin]

Just thought I would pop back in to see where the discussion has gone. Just to clarify, we have moved from "How can we get a solution that both sides will agree with to":

"In-game marriage is stupid"

While I don't think this is against the point of the thread entirely, It is pretty fair to say that it's implementation is a fore-gone conclusion. if you want to start another thread about why it should be take out as opposed to a question of inclusion. I'm willing to bet that you may get some people showing their opinon.

On the other hand, while I still don't think that the poll on this thread is credible in any scheme of things (the type of people who would spend this much time on the threads post 1.0 really isnt a very good polling population). I enjoy philosophical debates in general, which is why I hope this keeps going.

However, I would like to see us get back to the subject at hand.

[valetarkus]

In RL (i.e real life....if you didnt catch that) i don't support it personally. But honestly it's a video game and not RL so i dont care if it's there. That's kind of the point of a video game for me, escape reality and just do what ever because it's just old fun. The whole marriage thing in a video game i think is funny and really would only do it for a laugh speaking for myself.

[valetarkus]

Oh and really the only concern would be. Do we really need to marry another persons avatar unless it yielded cool items or benefits. Because for me, on the topic "is game marriage even needed" i would say if there is nothing but a title that comes out of it i would say no don't put it in there at all only to give the development team room to work on other, more meaningful things that would speed the process and release date up. All that programming and time it takes to create something that doesn't boost my stats or give me anything i don't think i care for it.