Marriage feedback [inofficial Poll]

[Zehira]

Wonder if they'll allow different race marriages, too? I think the mechanic should just be there and whoever wants to wed can. There doesn't need to be any real life politics like that inside of a video game IMO. I play video games to have a good time and get away from the real world.

Me either, not that I get away from the real world. I play video games to have a good time even I have a close friend since in XI and we are still not going to get married anyways. She doesn't mind about it at all because we both have female characters. lol

[Reika]

Marriage, Wedding, Wife, and Husband are 4 terms the game shouldnt use. Wife is a woman and husband is a man. If they use something like 'Soul Partner' it could be either as it relates to no gender.

At this point we don't even know what the benefits of character "marriage" are. Shared gilpurse? Shared bed? Special ring? In FFXI it was mostly (imho) about the official, GM-hosted ceremony, a sort of RP, even for non-RPers.

They said it would be a ring that teleports you to your partner.

[Phe]

i just wanted to note that my request about multiple character marriage is in no way offtopic here when half of the thread is about terms and words and not about SSM.
(for now i'll use the term soul partnership)

another thing that came to my mind is what's when a soul partnership is established and one of the two doesn't want that anymore?
will there be an option to break up the soul partnership?
or is it just bad luck then?
what kind of procedure would be for that?
is that the decision of one of the two or do both have to make that request?
what if there is no procedure and i just throw away the ring?
can i make a new soul partnership again?

you see... people fall in love. people stop loving each other. and people fall in love again.
especially when they're young.
and what can be quite precarious irl and all the questions above could be easily solved ingame
by just allowing soul partnership with multiple characters.

[Shougun]

i just wanted to note that my request about multiple character marriage is in no way offtopic here when half of the thread is about terms and words and not about SSM.
(for now i'll use the term soul partnership)

another thing that came to my mind is what's when a soul partnership is established and one of the two doesn't want that anymore?
will there be an option to break up the soul partnership?
or is it just bad luck then?
what kind of procedure would be for that?
is that the decision of one of the two or do both have to make that request?
what if there is no procedure and i just throw away the ring?
can i make a new soul partnership again?

you see... people fall in love. people stop loving each other. and people fall in love again.
especially when they're young.
and what can be quite precarious irl and all the questions above could be easily solved
by just allowing soul partnership with multiple characters.

Do you have your soul cherry? What? Have you bonded with more then one soul?

What ev babe....

XD

Breaking up should be somewhat hard - we dont want people running around getting 'married' just so they can collect teleport rings. (Also why polygamy wouldnt work, since everyone teleport to everyone... lol - unless you added like "main soul mate" and then lessers)


Also the discussion of words directly relates to SSM in FFXIV - it was to think of a way both logical to lore and friendly to all (lower conflict possibilities).

[Keisuna]

i just wanted to note that my request about multiple character marriage is in no way offtopic here when half of the thread is about terms and words and not about SSM.

Those words and terms are at least related to the subject of SSM. Don't use it as an excuse to bring in whatever topic you'd like.

[Phe]

Those words and terms are at least related to the subject of SSM. Don't use it as an excuse to bring in whatever topic you'd like.

multiple character marriage as well is at least related to the subject of SSM, because it doesn't rule out SSM.
it could even be combined.

and it's rather funny how some people want to play wannabe mods in here.

[ArkhamNative]

They said it would be a ring that teleports you to your partner.

You're thinking of a November interview with 4Gamer. Yoshi-P was giving his thoughts as to what he might consider (translated & summarized by Soukyuu):

Source: 4gamer (Japanese)
Marriage System

• For bonuses for getting married, they are only thinking of simple things like using the wedding ring to teleport to your partner. No bonuses in battle, else it will just lead to fake marriages
• To be able to marry, you will have to clear a quest with your partner

So "marriage" could still have other simple perks, and the teleport ring isn't guaranteed.

But going with the ring idea, I can see it happening like this, hypothetically:

• Form a 2-person party (M/F or whatever restrictions)
• Talk to a marriage NPC
• Complete a quest / view a cut scene
• Reward is a U/U ring for each player inscribed with the other player's name.
• Ring can be used to teleport to the location of the name inscribed on it.
• To get "divorced", one of the players throws away his/her ring.

This uses existing game features to keep "marriage" between two people and prevents multiple simultaneous "marriages".

[Arcell]

multiple character marriage as well is at least related to the subject of SSM, because it doesn't rule out SSM.
it could even be combined.

and it's rather funny how some people want to play wannabe mods in here.

And yet you have yet to even try to reply to my earlier suggestion. You want polygamy so that your alts can be married to the same person. Making marriage account wide solves that. Make it an option if enough people want a choice in the matter. Done.

[Phe]

option A: [...] having to re-create the system to work with marrying multiple people creates a whole new set of issues to deal with just as far as the game is concerned.

option B: An alternate fix to your problem would be simply to have marriage be account wide, perhaps as an option if enough wanted choice in the matter.

here's the post you spoke of.
i marked it with the 2 options you mentioned.

maybe i didn't get you quite right, but the result of both options - no matter how much work it would be for the devs - would be the same:
we've got more than 1 character married to the same person.

the only difference i see in those 2 options is that in option B we only have one ceremony and in option A we have more than 1 ceremony.
i was never speaking of marrying more than 1 person in the same ceremony.

so where's the big deal with allowing more than 1 soul partnership or w/e.
the gay minority here wants to be heard, but what about bisexuals as example that don't want to choose between man and woman, but a relationship to both genders?

(oh and everyone please forget about that damn teleport ring. when teleport to everywhere becomes as easy as Yoshi-P recently announced that'd be quite useless anyways.)

[KittenStomper]

howabout... no marriage system. because its the worst idea since even before the Twilight movies.