Warning about handing out wedding invites

[wf82]

Just thought I would post to warn about what happened to us, after planning our wedding, the invites we had left we thought we would shout out to see if anyone wanted to attend and get the minion if they needed it, well that was a really bad idea, we got totally trolled, the ceremony was completely wrecked with nasty shouts etc, just wanted to post a warning about what happened, hopefully save some other couples day from getting spoiled just be careful who you hand them out to

[Shougun]

Iirc they said there was going to be some changes to the wedding system in the future[1], perhaps they should add a bouncer feature lol. Be able to kick people from the event. I was actually invited to a random wedding, got the minions and stuff so I was pretty happy lol, was really cool to watch but funny too because I didn't know what to do so. . . random nervous onset ;3. just bought some town clothes and brought some fireworks/realm reborn for the end XD.

Sorry you had that experience ;/. Results would vary drastically depending on what happened but if you believe it was actually trolling (harassment) that is something you can consider reporting, they may do it again to someone else's wedding~

[Settiesama]

Inviting randoms off the streets... Kinda asked for it really.

[Dizzy]

Inviting randoms off the streets... Kinda asked for it really.

are you not bothered at all that people are so crappy sometimes that they do stuff like this, when OP was just trying to be nice and get people a free minion if they wanted?

pretty sad that you can't do a friendly gesture. i'm sorry your wedding was ruined from it.

[Settiesama]

are you not bothered at all that people are so crappy sometimes that they do stuff like this, when OP was just trying to be nice and get people a free minion if they wanted?

pretty sad that you can't do a friendly gesture. i'm sorry your wedding was ruined from it.

Not bothered, too used to it. It's an online game, it's expected. Are you saying you would honestly expect random people to join a wedding and not mess about? Hell, being invited randomly to a wedding of someone you don't know kinda says "We aren't taking this wedding seriously anyway"

[Just-Communication]

are you not bothered at all that people are so crappy sometimes that they do stuff like this, when OP was just trying to be nice and get people a free minion if they wanted?

pretty sad that you can't do a friendly gesture. i'm sorry your wedding was ruined from it.

I get the impression you believe online gaming is populated by upstanding people who are kind, nice and excuse themselves when they flatulate. Suffice to say, that is not the case. This may be a sweeping statement, but in general there are various degrees of asshattery, hidden in every corner of the realm. If the internet is any measure, a large percentage of players enjoy having fun at the expense of others - especially strangers - who, by and large, are too gullible. Would you invite random people to your wedding in real life? Some people get their kicks off the misfortune of others and are doubly emboldened by a measure of anonymity.

Is it fair? No. Let this be a lesson learned...

[Dizzy]

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i don't disagree with you, but it's pretty crappy that instead of expecting people to be less appalling we're told "you deserved it" because sometimes we want to have faith in people. like the guy whose FC was trashed and had 100m gil stolen from. yeah, he could have prevented it, but instead of being bothered, he just gets bashed about it. they STOLE something and HE got crap for it. it's sad.

[Gaj85]

are you not bothered at all that people are so crappy sometimes that they do stuff like this, when OP was just trying to be nice and get people a free minion if they wanted?

pretty sad that you can't do a friendly gesture. i'm sorry your wedding was ruined from it.

Why would anyone be bothered? He invited random people in an MMO to an event that I assume he wanted to be fun and run smooth. You don't have to be an MMO vet to know that if you don't know people in game, don't trust them.

[DarkLycan1692]

are you not bothered at all that people are so crappy sometimes that they do stuff like this, when OP was just trying to be nice and get people a free minion if they wanted?

pretty sad that you can\\\\\\'t do a friendly gesture. i\\\\\\'m sorry your wedding was ruined from it.

I was thinking of doing the same thing but will probably just shout on Hunting Linkshell to prevent a similar occurrence at mine. Sad that people would do this at something special like a marriage.

[Dustytome]

If you requested they stop and they did not, report them for harassment. Those looking to invite random people may want to make a macro to whisper them ahead of time something along the lines of "by accepting this invitation you agree to..." followed by your expectations of their behavior during the ceremony and maybe make note of the time it was handed to them.