Marriage Quest finally on the horizon! Yay!

[Chickenbacca]

(zzzzzzzzz)^10

[vpc]

this is only a good idea if by contract your new spouse has to send you irl nudes. they better add polygamy too so i can reap all the benefits being the handsome hunk with the big ween i bought for 7.85 on amazon that i am.

[KyahAlmasy]

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What an absurd generalization.. I mean you can throw your hands up and claim that you're not against it at all, but when you make statements like that you're express the opposite. The behavior you're describing isn't inherent with gay people, it's in people in general. Some people enjoy making a show of themselves, some don't, some are normal, and some are lurid and flamboyant. You only notice the ones flaunting because well.. they're flaunting, they're doing things to grab your attention -- And if it were a straight couple getting buck wild in public you can bet your bottom dollar it'd grab your attention too -- but for every gay person that enjoy making a show of themselves there is like 10 of them who don't enjoy it. So do you think it's right for you to judge 10 people for the actions of 1 person? That's just outright stereotyping.

What it seems like you're against isn't anything that is stemmed from gay individuals specifically, but PDA in general.

[Zhi]

All you people arguing about trivial things... I just want a harem for my lalafell :V

[Merryl]

You're all just afraid of PDA emotes lolz

[Sadana]

つ ◕_◕ ༽つEQUAL OPPORTUNITY OR RIOT ༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ

eh, worth a try... :3

[Gemma]

What it seems like you're against isn't anything that is stemmed from gay individuals specifically, but PDA in general.

Hmmm, let me see...

Keep it private, and if you can't be in public with your partner without being able to control yourself then stop going out in public with them. Again...that applies to everyone.

Yea, pretty sure she covered that. Even tho it has nothing to do with SSM in game, she still explained her point.
Geez that was hard..

How about everyone just stop attacking everyone & go play the game you're all being ridiculous.

[Souljacker]

I don't understand what the point of the restrictions would be. There are no restrictions that a male player must have a male avatar, and a female player must have a female avatar, so why would there be a restriction on these characters joining? Perhaps my mate chooses to play a female character because he does not like the male character. I also play a female character because I prefer to represented as such in the game. But my character marrying his is disallowed because of some perceived gender in... pixels?

This should be left out of the game entirely if it will have such restrictions. They make no sense in a modern world where people have the choice of what kind of character they wish to play.

All SE really needs to do is state they aren't taking a stance on the social aspect of it, and open it up to any two characters. If asked, they would respond simply with "We do not know the real life gender of any one individual character and we cannot police this. Since we cannot prevent same-sex couples from picking opposite sex characters and using this system, we feel that there is no reason to place this barrier in between opposite-sex couples who may have already leveled their chosen characters."

Very simple. Spin it so that the opposite sex RL couples are the focus and allowing them to enjoy the game with the characters they may already have is the most important thing. The rest of the community getting to participate is just a side effect.

[Nabiri]

I've said this on other threads, and I'll repeat myself now. If SE won't treat everyone equally.. if they're choosing to discriminate. then marriage should not be added to the game at all.

Content should never be made to exclude a population of the game. We should all have the same opportunities.
If the word 'marriage' is such an issue, it could be called something else.

I will lose all respect for SE if they choose discrimination over equality.

[Krr]

The only disadvantage to allowing same-sex marriage in the game is offending bigots. Nothing of value mechanically is lost, other than possibly the economic profitability of male-exclusive wedding outfits. (The game has many more female than male characters, as evidenced by the Valentine's day event chocolate prices.)

The current Marriage system as written as well as the mechanics of the Valentine's day event make it clear, though. Square (and their predominant culture in general, honestly,) is all right with two catgirls blowing kisses at each other and doing their suggestive /pose all day, and female NPCs can incidentally flirt with my female character when I do quests for them, but "real" romantic relationships (as set forth by game mechanics of marriage and the intended format of candy exchange to complete the Valentine's event,) can only be between men and women, according to them.