Please alter Ceremony Reservation requirements!

[Skyl1n3]

So it's 8:55am, I was lucky enough to have the day off work so I thought I'd run over to the Sanctum and grab me and my partner a nice time that'll suit most, if not all, of the people in the FC.

9am hits, I go to book a nice pm time and-oh... what the f***? I CANNOT place a reservation unless my partner, WHO ALSO WORKS, is online with me right there as well.

Is this some sick joke??

So basically all the good times are open to those who don't have jobs or are just lucky enough to have the day off on the SAME day, effectively making my Platinum purchase useless in regards to the reservation placements, ooh you can reserve a whole 2 hours earlier than standard planners... which means moot as it's still a working day.

So by the time my partner is back online ALL the decent pm times will be gone and the only thing left will be ridiculous am times which no-one will want to get up stupidly early for... cheers SE.

Allow us to reserve a time ON OUR OWN!!

[Kalelius]

"Is this some sick joke??"

I feel your pain, good sir. But that gave me a good laugh.

Hope everything works out for you and yours!

[Chiramu]

The more time that passes since the Eternal Bond was released means the more slots open up. Everyone rushed to get their slot first and now there are a lot of free slots. My BF and I still haven't got a good slot for us and our friends to join us but with patience we will be able to get a good time slot .

[RubyScarlett]

I don't know who designed that reservation system, but I'm confident that they hate all humanity because it's pretty much the most jacked up, evil thing in the world.

[BellaEyria]

I 100% Agree and understand (but don't understand this system...).

My husband was working too when I was able to reserve, the thing is as he is my real life husband I just connected his account on his computer and was able to do the reservation...
If your partner is not a real (close) friend IRL I sure don't advise to give your account ID to the other person so this is a real problem that some of my ingame friends have too (or the other person could connect his character in the game before going to work but this is just crazy...).

They should really add for example a pre-reservation to bind the two future partners (because I think this is the real problem here, you can't reserve without him because the game doesnt know "who" is your future partner) before the real reservation for example or let you select him via your friend list, dunno...

[Neuflune]

I totally agree that this is messed up. My hubby got the highest tier for Eternal Bond but we could not schedule because I could not be online at that time, due to work. Was it even stated in -any- of the quests that BOTH players have to be online to schedule? Except for, you know, at the exact moment when you try to schedule the ceremony?

If you already have the bands and have gone that far with the quest, it means that they have mostly agreed on everything. If people don't agree on the schedule, they can always re-schedule or cancel. What about friends in different timezones who want to use the Eternal Bond feature? What about people even in the same timezones but with different work schedule?

[Elim]

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It tells you when the quest sends you to the NPC that you reserve your weddings with. You may not be able to reserve at that moment in time, but you can still read what the reservation NPC has to say before leaving and coming back to actually reserve. My partner and I both read it and knew we were suppose to be there.

[Neuflune]

It tells you when the quest sends you to the NPC that you reserve your weddings with.

Eh, I just re-read the super long The Ties That Bind and saw that the couple must form a party of two and be both equipped with the bond items. So it is in the quest.

It's still obnoxious. Wedding settings can be done individually and then the couple will choose which one to use. And as pointed out, the wedding is instanced so it's weird that it has to be reserved.

And about this being a "Japanese game", they already made the decision to include NA and EU servers so those should be taken into account. Granted, my timezone isn't that far from Japan's but I reckon it's troublesome for those in EU and NA. If they really were adamant about keeping the reset times strictly JP, why is the weekly reset done on Tuesdays 5pm JST and not Mondays 12am JST? They can make adjustments if they really want to.

[SekhmetM]

There never should have been a "reservation system". It should havd been instanced since the beginning. Square-Enix is mad to push an entire server into such a schedule.

[Sounders]

Could've made it 1 day allowance for platinum members instead of 1 hour. How hard can it be? I'm curious what the devs were thinking when they were making the marriage reservation system.