Guild Wars 2

So I was fooling around in Lion’s Arch with my guild leader & we thought that being able to marry characters would be a fun thing to add. It should be something cosmetic but still fun. I’d love to know what you guys think about this silly idea.

RP it . there’s no reason for this to be an actual game mechanic

I can’t think of anything else that I’d least like to see in this game.

What Adine said. Marriage is an feature that would cause all kinds of issues, bickering and headaches if they put it in the game. If you RP it, you can have whatever kind of arrangement your partner(s) agree to and you can live happily ever after…or not, most likely, since most marriages these days end in divorce.

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I’m not against the concept in general, but I agree that it’d be too much work for not enough reward, especially since players who want to marry their characters can simply RP it. (And maybe change their names to match once the Name Change gem store item is released.)

My charr is dating Rytlock, true story. I know, who would have thought that Rytlock would fall for an ashie, but although being a thief and ashis she handles herself well in real combat too. He didn’t stand a chance when faced with her feline charm and dignity.

My sylvari is still single though, as is my asura.

Yeah just roleplay it

I was waiting for this thread to come up.

shakes head

I CAN’T WAIT for the legal issues to flare up…

Just imagine some 14 year old gamer girl marrying a 30 year old man in game…
I don’t see this in anyway could back fire on ArenaNet, no way sir!
BEST IDEA EVER!!!

This is sarcasm, I have to post this because… “slower-class” in this society.

I don’t fully understand why do we even need that, what would be the benefits and all…then again…constant bickering, wife leaving dungeon on before the last boss ‘cause husband said that she’s a good tank “which means she’s fat” etc etc

Soulstar.7812:

I CAN’T WAIT for the legal issues to flare up…

Just imagine some 14 year old gamer girl marrying a 30 year old man in game…
I don’t see this in anyway could back fire on ArenaNet, no way sir!
BEST IDEA EVER!!!

This is sarcasm, I have to post this because… “slower-class” in this society.

I love this response fyi +1 form me

Oh god what have I done! :O
About 2 hours after this post I regretted it immediatly (Soulstar’s reason exactly)

I have no issue with this. While ANet certainly has bigger fish to fry I don’t see any problems with it.

In LOTRO we were allowed to adopt two players as children and could even have up to 10 generations in a given family tree. Sadly there was no marriage so it made having families a little odd without RPing a husband/wife into it.

There’s no reason to or not to add this.

RP it. I don’t see why any servers besides Tarnished Coast or Piken Square would want them.

Besides this, I don’t think some of the races even do marriage. It would be weird.

I have seen this done in other MMOs. Here are the Pros and Cons…

Pros:
Couples only quests
Couples only dailies
Special title
Public marriage ceremony in the bride’s home town

Cons:
No same sex marriages
Divorcing gives another special title
Divorcing takes up an inventory slot for every divorce decree (No way to get rid of them)
RL issue already mentioned by Soulstar
RL issue with RL relationships (I have personally seen this and regret introducing this couple to the game)

Just some food for thought.

An Azura being taken up the aisle by a norn is just to weird

Soulstar.7812:

I CAN’T WAIT for the legal issues to flare up…

Just imagine some 14 year old gamer girl marrying a 30 year old man in game…
I don’t see this in anyway could back fire on ArenaNet, no way sir!
BEST IDEA EVER!!!

This is sarcasm, I have to post this because… “slower-class” in this society.

This wouldn’t be an issue if marriage was allowed via player with an NPC, similar to Skyrim.

Of course, this would cause issues because it is an MMO – how many people would be married to Logan, and would Logan move into your house, travel with you sometimes, etc.? Or would it simply be a title?

I’d be okay with this is you could only marry NPCs, and the NPCs never moved and their names/titles never changed. Sure, dialog can be different but that’s about it. If it was purely cosmetic and the only thing you could do with it is a short story quest and then some changed dialog, I wouldn’t have any problems.

Lutharr.1035:

An Azura being taken up the aisle by a norn is just to weird

^ Greatest image ever ^

Lol

Raine Akrune.8416:

Lutharr.1035:

An Azura being taken up the aisle by a norn is just to weird

^ Greatest image ever ^

Lol

Charr and an Asura

Your choice as to which is the bride, but both are amusing.

Though catnip jokes would be everywhere in the case of Carr and Sylvari marriages.

Kaimick.5109:

Where do you get the nerve to say no same sex marriage? Look I may not be gay or agree with being gay as you obviously don’t but to take a choice away form someones free will is Absurd and close minded.

He doesn’t. He says that other games that implemented marriage did not implement same sex marriage and he sees this as a con.

hmm well that is pie on my face let me delete that post

Simple solution:
marriage costumes in the cash shop with special skills similar to the witch and the mad king costumes had on Haloween.

One cool skill could be “dance together” in which both are holding hands and do a walts dance. For huge and small characters, the big one will hold the small one in his arms and dance.

Another skill, can be “marriage walk” when they both start walking together and fireworks and confetti start to fly in the air and a marriage song will play. The walk will be in straight line until the first major obstacle – wall, tree, water, etc. – when it will reverse the route back till the next obstacle.

the two skills above will be activated only if another character dressed in marriage costume is in range. Once one player presses the skill, the other will receive an marriage invitation which he can accept or decline.
Once one skill is activated it will transform itself into another skill called “divorce”. Once pressed, this skill will interrupt the animation generated by the first skill.

The other 3 skills will be used as a solo character – no other character in vicinity wares a marriage costume.

“special dance” – a dance similar to ballet dances

“getting ready” – a mirror pops up and the character starts to look into it, other characters with or without costume can look in the other side mirror and start the same animation as the main character

" ask in marriage" – a restaurant table with 2 chairs will pop up. the character stays on one chair and any player – with or without costume – can take a seat on the other chair.

These skills plus the “divorce” part will generate some achievements in community list.

“The wedding master” – number of minutes of having a partner

“The divorce advocate” – number of times you left/or have been left by a partner

“The petitioner” – number of minutes you have spent on the restaurant table chair

“The fashionist” – number of minutes spent in front of the mirror

and

“Married to [character name]” – number of minutes spent with the same partner"

The last achievement can be obtained multiple times for different character names only after “the divorce advocate” has been completed

I am sorry when did Guild wars turn into Sim’s Wars.

Ingame marriage only becomes a problem when you make it a problem. Other than that I think it’ll be a good idea. If you can see that marriage is going to be a problem for you then don’t get married. SIMPLE AS THAT!

If they do add it they would have to also add some type of embrace feature, maybe a kissing feature as well. Just a thought…

You can get married in he sims. So when did Guild wars become the Sims and why are we really discussing having a marriage mechanic in a Fantasy MMO game that is focused around killing Kittens ?

Kaimick, one coconut cream pie to the face for you! LOL

As to your “Sim’s Wars” comment, I felt about the same when I saw the other game doing a lot on the “Sim’s” type content and not fixing the glaring problems with their system in general.

I honestly can not get behind in-game marriages. It is bad enough that I’ve seen relationships end just because of an MMO first hand, but when I found out what happened after my buddy’s fiancee got in-game married to her guild leader, it made me WTF, WTH.

hate this stuff soooooo much, theres already enough miserable ppl married in real life do we need to punish them further ingame?

on the other hand add town clothes for bride and groom to gem shop (these will sell nicely to all those suckers), make the players RP the rest.

Rainzar.6905:

on the other hand add town clothes for bride and groom to gem shop (these will sell nicely to all those suckers), make the players RP the rest.

if feels you haven’t read my suggestion above :P

Ronah! You left some skills out. I will just give the names and you can fill in the descrption:

You are sleeping on the couch tonight
Pack your own lunch
Maybe I should have married your sister
Of course you look fat in that

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For a game like Guild Wars 2 I REALLY don’t think that there needs to be a marriage system. It’s a cute idea but then I think that if they did that, it would be like every other MMORPG out there and I’m not sure if that’s what the developers really want.

And also, if you just rp it, you and your friend who has a different character can do whatever they want to with it.

Make an exclusive guild for two. Make both of you owners. when you get the influence, get the guild bank. Share your junk. There’s your marriage.

Did you ever play FFXI? They had in-game marriage… I don’t mind it personally. It gives the RP people something to be happy about and it opens up the opportunity for many jokes when you buddy marries the “woman” of his dream, who then logs on as a burly Norn male.

If you don’t like it you can avoid it. Plus legally property rights are not fully recognized or appreciated so you won’t have to worry about alimony if things go poorly. XD

And no child support to pay either, unless you adopt one of those Norn orphans.

Marriage is something awesome for RolePlaying and the social side of the game.

The MMO I played we could even got skills and experience in our marriage and it was fun.
Because I want to Marrie an rich gold seller… Just in case :P

There was marriage in Mabinogi. A friend of mine in game payed for half of it for me and my irl wife, then we stopped playing the game… Not worth it.

I understand the fact it offers a lot of RP value but why do you need a mechanic in the game for RP?

I remember playing White Wolf games, and D& D 3.5, Call of Cuthulu, Paranoia, Rift, Pathfinder, and many many other actual roleplayign games. The game it self never needed to give us something special because we got our characters married. We didn’t need exculisive events to enjoy the RP, we just did it.

There is no reason other than it would be cool to put a marriage mechanic in the game. I say this in due part to the fact that if your are a true RP’er you don’t need a fancy mechanic to roleplay you are married to someone. Roleplay is all in the imagination and some things need to stay in that imagination.

If your really upset there is no mechanic for it in the game, there are several other MMO’s out there that do have it. Many have been mentioned and I will mention it again
The Sim’s
when you have your fill of the “Marriage mechanic” and feel like playing a successful game you can log back on GW2 and play then when you need that “Marriage Mechanic” again you can log onto one of the other numerous games.

I am sorry I just don’t feel a Marriage machanic has a place in GW2