Relationship system?

[Joeoj]

I would like to see a relationship system in XIV.

It’s not unusual for games to include romance, as SWTOR. Morrigan, Lana, or Bastila are loved by many male players, so there are plenty of people besides female players who enjoy romance in video games.

The demand is already huge, considering how much fanfiction and illustration exist. Even in ai chat bot, there are a lot of interactions with XIV's characters.

The game already has great characters, so all it needs is the addition of some quest lines like pink quest. someone who doesn’t like mmo may become interested and find enjoyment in playing it.

Of course, consideration is needed for players who don’t enjoy these elements, but I believe the developer could handle it.

What do you think?

[hydralus]

If stuff like BG3, Skyrim and Expedition 33 are anything to go by, I'd rather they just not bother. Sorta felt like the attraction was just hollow and tacked on with little real connection.

[Garruss]

I'd rather not have a forced romance system added to a game that doesn't need it.

[Shistar]

This would have been a good idea when the game was just starting out, but now it can only be a bad idea I'm afraid. Reason is a lot of people already have their headcanons/shipping with NPCs and due to the little information we have on some of them, you basically have to give them a ton of dialogue and personality yourself. If they suddenly added it officially, it'd step on a lot of toes and many may actually grow to dislike the NPC they used to ship their character with due to this. Not worth the effort to make all of this just to get a bunch of people upset with you as a company...


If it only affected new characters to avoid stepping on any ancient toes, then people would be annoyed because they can't get rejected by Y'shtola.


We can't win

[yesnt]

Only if I can turn it off.

[TheMightyMollusk]

Eh. They'll never make anyone that compares to Garrus.

[Rein_eon_Osborne]

At this point of the game's lifetime, I'd only want to see it on our own Retainer lol, AND if they let us bring our Retainer everywhere xD

[Catwho]

I made the joke that if they were going to make a mobile game THIS was the route they should have taken.

(Heck, I actually dreamed it was a thing, and one of the scenarios was a Garlean train ride "date" with Emet-Selch as he whisked the WoL off to some Imperial villa. It didn't change canon if you accepted him or rejected him, and the entire game was still G rated, but it added villages, cities, zones and such that are never going to be added to the main game or were only added after they got destroyed.)

Keep it outside of the main canon. Nothing in the plot changes. But you can unlock bonus scenes - and in every route the WoL and their chosen Scion, city state leader, or enemy opts to keep the relationship secret or distance or unrequited for the sake of saving the world.

[ServerCollaps]

just go to limsa and talk to people, if you want random romances xd

[NecroprincessCleo]

I mean Id love it, but the game likes to kill off my type of men in the story, like really, I'd give names but spoilers