Marriage feedback [inofficial Poll]

[Wolfie]

Thats wrong in its own way.

Did they actually use the word 'quarantined'?

They didn't use the word quarantined, but that's basically what it is. Same-sex relationship is only available in one area of the game, and is invalid elsewhere, and you have to pay for it.

This is all following their damage control of deleting any forum posts about same-sex relationships, whether positive or negative, and then having press release about how "gay and lesbian does not exist in our world".

[ArkhamNative]

SGR (Same Gender Relationship/Romance) in SWTOR is only going to be available if you buy their expansion and it's going to be quarantined to a single planet.

OMG utter FAIL.

But that's different than here, though. In SWTOR this is in dialog with NPCs, and either they or you will be making obvious flirts or passes.

[Nevrath]

They just shouldnt call it marriage and instead "bonding" or something like that.
Also they should just implement it silently without makeing a fuzz and probably no one will notice anyways.

Bioware handled the situation in SWTOR horribly.
They ended up offending all the partys. But i guess blame the publisher not Bioware.

We should just leave that "marriage" term to those who feel its their tradition/whatever/sacred thingy and invent a new word for people who love each other and want to promise themselfes to their significant other for the rest of their life.

[SkyeWindbinder]

They just shouldnt call it marriage and instead "bonding" or something like that.
Also they should just implement it silently without makeing a fuzz and probably no one will notice anyways.

Bioware handled the situation in SWTOR horribly.
They ended up offending all the partys. But i guess blame the publisher not Bioware.

We should just leave that "marriage" term to those who feel its their tradition/whatever/sacred thingy and invent a new word for people who love each other and want to promise themselfes to their significant other for the rest of their life.

^^ Now THIS is a great idea.

This will prevent people who make a big deal out of this issue from being able to, while allowing those who like to roleplay a chance to stretch their imagination muscles. It's perfect imo. I definitely endorse this.

[Arcell]

They just shouldnt call it marriage and instead "bonding" or something like that.
Also they should just implement it silently without makeing a fuzz and probably no one will notice anyways.

Bioware handled the situation in SWTOR horribly.
They ended up offending all the partys. But i guess blame the publisher not Bioware.

We should just leave that "marriage" term to those who feel its their tradition/whatever/sacred thingy and invent a new word for people who love each other and want to promise themselfes to their significant other for the rest of their life.

^^ Now THIS is a great idea.

This will prevent people who make a big deal out of this issue from being able to, while allowing those who like to roleplay a chance to stretch their imagination muscles. It's perfect imo. I definitely endorse this.

That is the most popular idea that has been thrown around a number of times here. It would solve the problem while creating no others. Sadly the reps have never acknowledged it as far as I've seen, hopefully they can eventually give us some definitive word.

[Nevrath]

Yes someone on the first pages already noted that they should just drop the term marriage.

I think it would be the best way to do it.
Atleast the best i can think of so i hope the idea gets more attention.

Of corse someone will always be offended but i think many "marriage is sacred" people will be happy that their sacred ritual is respected while many of the "same rights for everybody" people will also granted what they wanted. (*edit: or "granted what they want.?.. uh sorry for the bad grammar. :/)

[Seraphe]

Also, I'm sure it has been mentioned before.. Religion is not the same in Eorzea and Earth. The christian god isn't present in Eorzea, nor the god of any other earthern religion.
If the term marriage isn't used and maybe the word "god" isn't said during the ceremony it'll work out well?
Players could "bond" while the crystals watch over them or something.

[ArkhamNative]

At this point we don't even know what the benefits of character "marriage" are. Shared gilpurse? Shared bed? Special ring? In FFXI it was mostly (imho) about the official, GM-hosted ceremony, a sort of RP, even for non-RPers.

[Seraphe]

At this point we don't even know what the benefits of character "marriage" are. Shared gilpurse? Shared bed? Special ring? In FFXI it was mostly (imho) about the official, GM-hosted ceremony, a sort of RP, even for non-RPers.

I was trying to get a wedding date for over 2 years in FFXI and never got one. If they should make it easier to marry one.

[Shougun]

At this point we don't even know what the benefits of character "marriage" are. Shared gilpurse? Shared bed? Special ring? In FFXI it was mostly (imho) about the official, GM-hosted ceremony, a sort of RP, even for non-RPers.

Could be making it up but I thought the benefit was a free teleport to each other ring or something like it.

Polygamy would be a problem if there are benifits :P we'd just end up with a server where everyone married everyone lol