Character relationships?

[Pixiehawk]

Am I the only one with an eye on Baderon? He was so adorable when I "dote"ed him all 3 time last year...

[Fluffernuff]

Let's just leave lore or the WoL's disposition aside.


It would be extremely limiting to the dev team, story-wise, to introduce, mechanically, any sort of major NPC relationships. It limits what they can do with that character. All of a sudden, mjor characters can never be removed from the story due to any players losing their "investment" in said character. Minor characters suddenly become more important, due solely to whatever benefits they supply. The story Team now has to write AROUND every character they want to give this option to, instead of writing stories FOR the character.

On top of all that, I'm not sure how Eorzea treats this, but why am I romancing Ameryic behind my EB partner's back? Kinda undermines that entire thing, don't you think?


Neat idea on paper, but I don't think it's as universally great like some would think it is.

[FallenArisen0990]

The best solution is to just add flirt lines to MS/Q lines. It can't possibly hurt development time for adding in 2 or 3 pieces of line. Sometimes you get good reactions from stuff like this lol.

[Zarabeth]

I kinda wished that your character had some kind of relationship with someone from the Scions or another central character of your choosing or someone who's already set to be romanced by your character like, for example, Alphinaud if your character was a girl then Alisae if you were a guy. I guess something like in FFVII where you can go on a date or something like that. I'd choose Lyse though if there was an option.

I'm creeped out by this whole idea. Especially alphinaud and alisae who are children. Creepy. I would definitely NOT want this in the game.

[Sharksandrew]

The idea seems creepy. I'd rather find my own real person to love in game.

[Jybril]

The person I want is dead.
*Cries on Haurchefant's grave. Gets frostbite*
Ideally as a Lala, I'd probably end up with Pipin lol.
HE ISN'T AS CUTE AS HAURCHE'S!
His hair does NOTHING for me! ; - ;

[Slevin_Impudicus]

Lyse got my attention when she upgraded her wardrobe, but Y'shtola is the only scion that I would bother rescuing, if I was given a real choice. Having the others indicating a romantic interest would probably make things even more uncomfortable. I would not want Aymeric to get even more creepy. His voice makes me cringe.

Yotsuyu on the other hand... I could work with that.

[Umbeliel]

Krille please o/

[Ametrine]

I'd date Estinien. Like, I'm a touch miffed that he never came forward despite being so central to Ala Mhigo's liberation, sincehe basically deus ex machina'd that cannon to bits so the liberation wasn't annihilated. I hope he pops in in 4.x and just makes his affiliation to the Scions more official.

But that's why I think a series of "friendship" quests is the best happy medium for this. We get more personal content with these NPCs we love, but it doesn't jeopardize future storylines, nor does it hurt the current marriage between players system or the open ended nature of the WoL as a character.

The most high friendship would do is change some dialogue options down the road.

[DreamAngel-Ren]

This topic has been popping up lately...

Many already stated that this idea wouldn't work because the writers will have to keep certain 'married' NPCs alive. The way I see it, if they wanna kill that character, go right ahead. If NPC dies, the player just gotta move on.

I personally wish that the idea could work because:
1) AYMERIC
2) It's comfortable to me (and maybe others) than marrying another player - yes, I have trust issues (and I wants the dress XDD)
3) IT CAN BE OPTIONAL! Players against the idea be like: "this is not a dating stimulator""I'm cheating on my EB partner""the idea is dumb/weird" - no one has a gun to your head saying that you have to do it.

All in all, I support the idea, but I'm not counting on this will actually happen. I kinda see why the dev team are hesitant because some players may get too attached to a certain NPC and if they die, all hell breaks loose and they don't have time for dat. lol