In-game marriage, will it make a return?

[Hycinthus]

SE should just set up an instanced gathering hall (have it cost 50k to reserve it for an hour or so) and let players handle their own events (weddings, funerals, domestic life-partner couplings, crafting competitions, lawsuit proceedings, board meetings, bunny jump contests, etc...)

Just stay away from the mess that was the FFXI wedding system.

On a personal note: In MMO games "Marriage" is really meaningless term.... It's not about starting a family/procreation or even sexual unity... so it's really just what... 'exclusive friendship'? BFF certificate? A way to give someone access to your stuff? (could just share login/pass for that)

So why have them? To celebrate your official bonding with a friend? That's fine, you can do that now without the devs wasting time building a system around it. If the game doesn't have a script running that gives your BBF party a thumbs up, then you are lacking something?? I find it hard to believe that one's emotional well-being is really dependent on a stamp of approval from an AI system, but if so, that person may have some RL issues they need to address.

TL : DR? A MMO "marriage" system is functionally useless and not worthy of serious attention. To the degree that it IS taken seriously, it becomes rather creepy/pathetic.

For me it's just a fun social event with your friends and linkshell mates. And apparently, very memorable if that stuck out after 8 years and 10 MMOs later.

[elreed]

if i can marry with several females im up for it, no discrimination on races

[Rannie]

SE should just set up an instanced gathering hall (have it cost 50k to reserve it for an hour or so) and let players handle their own events (weddings, funerals, domestic life-partner couplings, crafting competitions, lawsuit proceedings, board meetings, bunny jump contests, etc...)

Just stay away from the mess that was the FFXI wedding system.

On a personal note: In MMO games "Marriage" is really meaningless term.... It's not about starting a family/procreation or even sexual unity... so it's really just what... 'exclusive friendship'? BFF certificate? A way to give someone access to your stuff? (could just share login/pass for that)

So why have them? To celebrate your official bonding with a friend? That's fine, you can do that now without the devs wasting time building a system around it. If the game doesn't have a script running that gives your BBF party a thumbs up, then you are lacking something?? I find it hard to believe that one's emotional well-being is really dependent on a stamp of approval from an AI system, but if so, that person may have some RL issues they need to address.

TL : DR? A MMO "marriage" system is functionally useless and not worthy of serious attention. To the degree that it IS taken seriously, it becomes rather creepy/pathetic.

I wouldn't say it was purely meaningless. How do you know said people aren't dating/married in real life and are playing the game together as a couple. As a matter of fact I know a married couple who play the game they use the same last name as each other and I know they'd probably get married too in the game as well. Also if it shows in your information when someone checks you that you're married to so and so (if they did something like that) it is less of a chance for some unwanted attention. It's not that you have to marry someone it's the ability to have that choice.

You may think it's meaningless and if people take it too seriously to be creepy pathetic then, I'm sorry about that not everyone else sees it the same way.

[Anapingofness]

SE should just set up an instanced gathering hall (have it cost 50k to reserve it for an hour or so) and let players handle their own events (weddings, funerals, domestic life-partner couplings, crafting competitions, lawsuit proceedings, board meetings, bunny jump contests, etc...)

Just stay away from the mess that was the FFXI wedding system.

On a personal note: In MMO games "Marriage" is really meaningless term.... It's not about starting a family/procreation or even sexual unity... so it's really just what... 'exclusive friendship'? BFF certificate? A way to give someone access to your stuff? (could just share login/pass for that)

So why have them? To celebrate your official bonding with a friend? That's fine, you can do that now without the devs wasting time building a system around it. If the game doesn't have a script running that gives your BBF party a thumbs up, then you are lacking something?? I find it hard to believe that one's emotional well-being is really dependent on a stamp of approval from an AI system, but if so, that person may have some RL issues they need to address.

TL : DR? A MMO "marriage" system is functionally useless and not worthy of serious attention. To the degree that it IS taken seriously, it becomes rather creepy/pathetic.

Ouch, that's a little harsh don't you think?

In game marriage is more of a bit of a social experience than anything else. In some games you can get exclusive fashion/vanity outfits and in others people actually get a small boost from being married.

Some people find it fun and that's what it's all about. That's your functionality.
You may not find something like this fun and therefore it is useless to you but that type of one sided thinking is what will hold this game back. You can't make everyone happy because some people will always find something to be useless and unnecessary while others will find it to be quite the opposite of useless.

[Alteiriaa]

Aww, I'd like this in game, I would. It would be fun, if nothing else, so long as they didn't set it up so only male/female can get married. Like a bunch of other people said in here, love knows no bounderies.

Also, if they do put it in they should set it up so the rings can't be discarded unless one does a divorce sidequest or something of that sort. It makes you think hard about doing the thing in the first place if you have to jump through so many hoops to get rid of the marriedness.
Said sidequest should also do it's best to make you feel bad about it or be a massive gil sink, haha, if not both.

[Zantetsuken]

I wouldn't say it was purely meaningless. How do you know said people aren't dating/married in real life and are playing the game together as a couple. As a matter of fact I know a married couple who play the game they use the same last name as each other and I know they'd probably get married too in the game as well. Also if it shows in your information when someone checks you that you're married to so and so (if they did something like that) it is less of a chance for some unwanted attention.

Easily achieved with a personal 'check' message (something like the bazaar messages in FFXI)

There are thousands of other things I'd rather see the dev team work on before they even think of building a "BBF stamp-of-approval application and ceremony system" for the game.

[Rannie]

Easily achieved with a personal 'check' message (something like the bazaar messages in FFXI)

There are thousands of other things I'd rather see the dev team work on before they even think of building a "BBF stamp-of-approval application and ceremony system" for the game.

that I won't disagree with but we're not clamoring for it right now we're just saying we'd like to see it some time in the game no where does it say in any of the posts to put in marriage right now right this minute. We're just saying we'd like to see it eventually in the game. k thanks bye

[Anapingofness]

Aww, I'd like this in game, I would. It would be fun, if nothing else, so long as they didn't set it up so only male/female can get married. Like a bunch of other people said in here, love knows no bounderies.

Also, if they do put it in they should set it up so the rings can't be discarded unless one does a divorce sidequest or something of that sort. It makes you think hard about doing the thing in the first place if you have to jump through so many hoops to get rid of the marriedness.
Said sidequest should also do it's best to make you feel bad about it or be a massive gil sink, haha, if not both.

Yes to the idea of marriage for more than just the male/female crowd. There is no reason not to allow people to marry as they see fit. Also, yes, to the idea of a divorce quest! Like I mentioned earlier, I think it'd be really cute. XDD

[Dargoth_Draconia]

I wouldn't say it was purely meaningless. How do you know said people aren't dating/married in real life and are playing the game together as a couple. As a matter of fact I know a married couple who play the game they use the same last name as each other and I know they'd probably get married too in the game as well. Also if it shows in your information when someone checks you that you're married to so and so (if they did something like that) it is less of a chance for some unwanted attention. It's not that you have to marry someone it's the ability to have that choice.

You may think it's meaningless and if people take it too seriously to be creepy pathetic then, I'm sorry about that not everyone else sees it the same way.

Well you can also go into the whole debate that is their personal information and shouldn't need not be shared with the rest of us. So what if they are going out and play the game as a couple, they can share the same surname and bam guess what you don't need anything else to say it. Surname can represent a familial tie, like my brothers and RL friends who play with me share my same surname, kind of our battle tag.

Actually I think I change my earlier opinion and hope devs waste no time in implementing this into the game, as others have said you can make it yourself. Hell if you want make a LS for weddings and sell them, copy the old script GMs used in FFXI and switch out names. Take time to find in game clothes that would be appropriate for the bride and groom and the guests and craft them up and supply them. Craft up rings maybe some that people don't use often (though I do wish you could sign your name on items like in FFXI). After all that sell it to players wanting to get married for so much gil and hold their wedding for them. Run them through a mock wedding first and then post on the forums if you want and have an open formal wedding or don't post and have a nice secluded version. Hell you can hire guards to kill of roaming monsters that agro in certain areas if you wanted too.

I wouldn't mind seeing weddings come way later in 2.0 when we have plenty of content to enjoy and player housing and all that stuff, but it shouldn't be anything that is put on the table now when players themselves can do what they are asking for. Show some effin initiative and make something come alive and be magical without them having to hold your hand to make it so. Also 2.0 will have more diverse areas for setting stuff up like this, though I can think of several awesome places now.

[Hycinthus]

Even though I started this thread and I support the return of in-game marriage, I will have to agree that this should NOT be the devs priority. I think everyone would agree that player housing is definitely more important than this. Maybe further down the line, this could be implemented.