Eternal Bonding & Forced Downgrading

[Nyalia]

The page (and the quest itself) say that the ceremony will be downgraded if your partner doesn't buy the same plan that you do. And for the ceremony, that makes sense. After all, you can't really have the two players getting different ceremonies when they marry each other.

For the items on the other hand, neither of those is true. It makes no sense for one player's items to be based on what their partner did or didn't buy. Nor does the site indicate that it will happen. If somebody pays for the platinum wedding items, then they're entitled to actually receive those platinum wedding items that they paid money for.

Since last night, they changed the wording on the site as shown above to clearly say the quest will be downgraded. IMO, the new wording is still terrible and ambiguous, though it is probably better than the old wording.

[Niwashi]

Since last night, they changed the wording on the site as shown above to clearly say the quest will be downgraded. IMO, the new wording is still terrible and ambiguous, though it is probably better than the old wording.

Even if they fix the description on the site, it wouldn't change the fact that it's wrong to charge someone for something and then not give them what they paid for. It makes no sense to say the groom can't be in a Tailcoat of Eternal Devotion if his bride is wearing a Gown of Eternal Innocence or vice-versa. The various combinations of gear all work fine together. The venue, decorations, ceremony, etc, need to be coordinated between the two players, as they shouldn't be seeing a different ceremony from each other, but there's no reason for that to affect any of the items the players get. So the only way that makes any sense is the way they initially described it, that it's only the ceremony that gets downgraded to the lowest common denominator.

(Besides, I don't consider the new wording on the site to be fixed. They do seem to have removed the mention that it's the ceremony that gets downgraded, but they didn't put anything in its place, leaving the page without any real explanation I could find of what exactly it is that gets downgraded.)

Honestly this is going to keep happening whether they change the wording or not until they change how the system works.

Exactly. You can't fix an inherently deceitful system just by explaining it a bit more clearly.