Guild Wars 2

Where thou are you for nay to say, to be or not to be?

I’d support it. It’d be fun for my wife & I.

Then they would need to introduce a new class… divorce lawyer.

Thou shalln’t holdeth thine breath, er verily thine visage turns deepest indigo b’fore thine nuptials are upon us.

Omega Mayhem.7163:

Then they would need to introduce a new class… divorce lawyer.

It could be a brawling Costume.

As for Marriage System? Sure why not… if they have time. As long as it doesn’t delay Cantha being added. I think Anet probably prefers it to be an RP thing though.

As long as she can’t take half my stuff when she decides to run off with a Charr Warrior

Doggie.3184:

It could be a brawling Costume.

Like plate smashing brawls. And a screech attack.

FFXI used to do these, with a rented private cathedral zone and a GM roleplaying the minister. My roommate and I married our characters so he could switch his Mithra Thief’s citizenship from Windurst to Bastok for cheap. Turns out, the GM wasn’t actually authorized to do that, or anything else beyond officiate over the fake ceremony and hand out some consumable party favors. Not even “in the name of TRUE LOVE”, which we tried out best (a little too late) to fake.

Also that week Bastok took a nosedive in the city vs. city rankings for the first time in over a year on Siren server, so the cost to immigrate plummeted, but we’d already spent a small fortune renting the cathedral and crafting the Rings and my friend’s Wedding Dress/Boots/Gloves/Corsage combo. It was still a fraction of what the immigration cost would have been if Bastok was still #1 on that server though, and the screenshots were hilarious.

THEN his parents found out that he’d had his sexy cat-lady character fake-marry my big bearded wizard (a BLACK MAGE no less, clearly a minion of Evil), and they completely flipped out and made him move out of the dorms lest we further convert their son to what I can only assume they imagined was a satanic pansexual LARPer cult.

So… uh… yeah! I’m totally in favor of GW2 Marriages!

@Melichior
That was beautiful.

Melchior: Sounds like your roomie’s parents were a tad sheltered.

Omega Mayhem.7163:

Then they would need to introduce a new class… divorce lawyer.

Or an item mall divorce stamp ^_^ They could also sell “town” wedding clothes and I’d support that. I like this idea, and a certain other game that most of you never heard of already has it ^_^ They had a dragon soul quest before WoW too.

Melchior.2135:

THEN his parents found out that he’d had his sexy cat-lady character fake-marry my big bearded wizard (a BLACK MAGE no less, clearly a minion of Evil), and they completely flipped out and made him move out of the dorms lest we further convert their son to what I can only assume they imagined was a Satanic pansexual LARPer cult.

So… uh… yeah! I’m totally in favor of GW2 Marriages!

I actually like the term black mage far more than “elementalist”, it just has an appeal and isn’t necessarily “evil”, it’s what you do with the magic that counts. Burning zombies with pyrokinesis = good, for example.

Are you serious about your dorm mate’s parents?! They sound like the kind of nuts who protest Harry Potter movies and people like that are a laughing stock on Youtube and among the best lulcows! :D

No. Why:

What exactly would be the point.

Wedding attire costumes, like guild wars, and if you want to have your own roleplay wedding, sure. But you don’t need an actual system, and you don’t even really need costumes.

Nels the Cornwhisperer.8025:

No. Why:

What exactly would be the point.

Wedding attire costumes, like guild wars, and if you want to have your own roleplay wedding, sure. But you don’t need an actual system, and you don’t even really need costumes.

Yes, you need costumes. A white wedding dress on the bride and black tie on the groom or it’s not a wedding.

NO! With all the drama it causes in real life, we don’t need that brought to the game. The first time they want to let 2 men marry, or a charr and a harpy, the crap will begin.

You can do a white dress and a pretty nice suit with the current armor and town clothes, and dyes. It also really depends on the theme of your roleplayed wedding, as I’m pretty sure medieval, generic (tolkein-esque) fantasy, and steampunk don’t really have the same requirements as modern real-world weddings. For that matter, modern real world weddings don’t really follow many rules, other than there’s at least more than one person alive in the room.

I vote for this only if it leads to norn wedding mini-game that is a variation of keg-brawl.

Only the groom and bride take turns being the keg and either can punch anyone they choose

They should rename the zone to Melchior’s Leap, in honor of this story.

in-game weddings might be neat, but where would the couple live? this game needs affordable real estate they can craft or build for.

Agemnon.4608:

Melchior.2135:

THEN his parents found out that he’d had his sexy cat-lady character fake-marry my big bearded wizard (a BLACK MAGE no less, clearly a minion of Evil), and they completely flipped out and made him move out of the dorms lest we further convert their son to what I can only assume they imagined was a Satanic pansexual LARPer cult.

So… uh… yeah! I’m totally in favor of GW2 Marriages!

I actually like the term black mage far more than “elementalist”, it just has an appeal and isn’t necessarily “evil”, it’s what you do with the magic that counts. Burning zombies with pyrokinesis = good, for example.

Are you serious about your dorm mate’s parents?! They sound like the kind of nuts who protest Harry Potter movies and people like that are a laughing stock on Youtube and among the best lulcows!

They were nice enough folks, in retrospect. He was only 17, and it has become my opinion (now that I’m a parent myself) that they maybe were a little hasty letting a kid that age go to a school in Hawaii while they were still in Illinois. The fact that their son’s grades plummeted as soon as he moved in with me and my gamer buddies probably had more to do with their reaction than our fake Man-on-Catgirl RP marriage, but that doesn’t make for as funny of a story.

Also, he did kind of a crappy job explaining the situation – “No, we didn’t spend any REAL money, just FAKE money in the game, that… well.. what? Oh, yeah! See, my character’s a girl, but she’s a lesbian! She’s just marrying Scott’s character for her green car… no… Mom… come on, stop crying Mom…”

Yey!!! I want to marry my boyfriend <3 in game! It would be fun!

What would you gain as a married couple? That you can both access eachothers banks? That would be interesting.

Costumes on the other hand is fun if you want to rp.

Weddings tend to cause more problems than benefits.

If you add weddings, you get to the whole big issue of genders. And that’s really something that you want to avoid at all costs. Because let’s face it, whichever side you pick, you’re going to lose something.

Adding in-game weddings also tends to bring in unnecessary drama. And it tends to lead to account sharing, which leads to false accusations of being “hacked” or “scammed”. And that is also another unnecessary workload for ANet.

What is the problem with genders and weddings?

I can roleplay a homosexual asura/norn wedding right now if I wanted. That will never be a real problem, because if someone really wants to do it, they’re going to. The question is, will we give them costumes like the wedding attire in Guild Wars 1, or will they simply have to dye their town clothes?

mcmillan.9760:

What is the problem with genders and weddings?

Well, if they choose to implement gay marriage, they will without a doubt get some unwanted publicity for that, all while losing some younger players because of their parents prohibiting them. I doubt ANet would want publicity for being the first major Western game to “support” gay marriage.

If they choose not to implement it, they end up with a guaranteed couple of times a month when someone will post into the Suggestion forum about implementing it. And they will, again, lose some of the players, this time those who wanted gay marriage.

So either way, it’s a lose-lose situation for them.

And if they implement marriage, that’s just one step away from in-game animations like hugging and kissing. And that’ll bring the same issues again. Not a path you want to take.

To what end, exactly? What justification do you have for the time and effort it would take to implement this? A fun little 10 minute diversion that a handful of people would enjoy and then not care about? I’d rather see a bunch of pathing bugs addressed and have the sever space used for just about anything else. Course maybe I’m just a sad person who’s never been in love.

Olba.5376:

mcmillan.9760:

What is the problem with genders and weddings?

Well, if they choose to implement gay marriage, they will without a doubt get some unwanted publicity for that, all while losing some younger players because of their parents prohibiting them. I doubt ANet would want publicity for being the first major Western game to “support” gay marriage.

I for one consider losing the homophobes a good thing.

There’s no such thing as “unwanted” publicity. Any publicity is good publicity, especially if anywhere in that publicity there’s any hint, indication or implication that one supports ideas that aren’t outdated and hatemongering.

For an added step in the right direction, don’t even call it marriage. That would avoid the whole problem for the… people who would have a problem with it.

Opportunity for more outfits and more things to do. Why the hell not. It could fit in on a character’s portrait right above/below titles: [Term to replace Married] or it could be another little mark of recognition similar to the little gold thingy for 100% world completion.

Make it open to every gender/race combination and then step back and let the community run with it. A handful of blow-hards that are too immature or hateful to handle it won’t ruin the game for anyone that’s actually busy playing the game. And as vespers said, banning/losing the hatemongers is a good thing.

Olba.5376:

And if they implement marriage, that’s just one step away from in-game animations like hugging and kissing. And that’ll bring the same issues again. Not a path you want to take.

Hugging and Kissing animations are unlikely for an entirely different reason, I think – syncing animations between two characters of variable sizes would be a freaking nightmare. I can’t imagine a price point that would justify the effort needed to create them, that players would actually pay.

We’ve had synced dances between multiple characters of different sizes. Hugging and kissing.... wouldn’t be too hard.

Really though people, I’m finding it hard to explain why you can’t just dye your armor and prance around for a day.

Nels the Cornwhisperer.8025:

We’ve had synced dances between multiple characters of different sizes. Hugging and kissing…. wouldn’t be too hard.

Really though people, I’m finding it hard to explain why you can’t just dye your armor and prance around for a day.

The reason direct interaction between two models is so much harder is because it’s not just synched. It also has to not clip, not be too far apart, can’t make the character models look ridiculous or bent weirdly out of shape, etc. There’s a lot more work going into two models participating in one interaction than just letting characters synchronize their actions. Synching a dance up just makes sure every character’s dance is timed together, it doesn’t make their models do anything special.

Anyway we don’t need animations for /hug or /kiss, but the emotes showing up in chat would be nice. This is kind of off the topic of the actual proposed suggestion though.

On why we can’t just dye our armor and prance around for a day instead: why don’t you do that instead of going through some silly union ritual with a loved one irl? Because it’s silly and doesn’t mean anything unless people want it to. Since acting silly won’t mean anything to people in-game it’s not going to replace the idea of a recognized marriage-like thing implemented in the game to be done.

if they introduce this there needs to be a way to attack and kill everyone at the wedding and sow salt in the ground so nothing grows on the land ever again.

poe lyfe.5879:

if they introduce this there needs to be a way to attack and kill everyone at the wedding and sow salt in the ground so nothing grows on the land ever again.

Aside from everything else, the idea of a PvP option for the ceremony is awesome, I’ll give you that.

Nels the Cornwhisperer.8025:

We’ve had synced dances between multiple characters of different sizes. Hugging and kissing…. wouldn’t be too hard.

Really though people, I’m finding it hard to explain why you can’t just dye your armor and prance around for a day.

When you say synced dances, do you mean physical contact between participants, like a waltz or some kind of folk dance with hand-holding and clapping or whatever? If so, I’d love to see some videos so I can start tracking down the animators to pester about how they did it. Or do you mean like when you get a row of characters together and all do “/dance *”, and then they start performing the dance emote in unison? If so, that’s totally different from making the character models appear to interact physically with each other, and worlds easier.

As long as there is divorce and I get alimony and get half his stuff.. evil grin

only problem is then gay marriage political rabble happens and kitten hits the fan.

not that I have anything against gay marriage, just pointing out that whether or not it’s there people get mad.

Wedding costumes were implemented in GW1, so I think it’s only a matter of time until they’re introduced into GW2. As to actual in-game mechanics supporting the marriage of two characters? I think that would never happen. Too much work for not enough reward, especially when you can easily RP a wedding ceremony in-game anyway.

I would really like to see something like this come into the game… It brings a more sense of reality to the game when playing with your loved one it brings a more connection to your characters..

so yes I would support this suggestion

I been on games that had hole wedding event things.. the down side was you have to set an appointment and wait in line. at least that was my experiance with it ….although cool and such diffantly for role playing…and diffantly if it gave merriage perks as well

There’s no reason for any kind of “marriage system” in the game. If you want to be married, have whatever ceremony you see fit and then… call yourselves married.

No, but it sounds like some sort of gimmick that can be used during Valentine’s Day.

Maybe with NPCs or something for a perk/buff/whatever. That seems a lot easier to implement than inter-player marriage.

But then again I don’t know much about MMO programming, I’m making this stuff off the top of my head.

arcqe.6734:

only problem is then gay marriage political rabble happens and kitten hits the fan.

not that I have anything against gay marriage, just pointing out that whether or not it’s there people get mad.

So? Let them get mad. This is the 21st century and we should stop having to pander to a vocal minority who know nothing but hate, or who hide behind a warped sense of morality that states that murder in the name of God is fine, but the love between two members of the same sex is the work of Satan. GW2 and gaming in general would be better for it. Besides, there’s nothing in the Guild Wars lore that discriminates against such a union anyway.

Yours, a modern 21st century heterosexual male.

Well if they introduce housing into the game at some point, they could add an option to share housing as well. Give permissions to your “spouse” so you can both work together to make a great place to live.

I support this 100%.

When the name change thing happens Im sure folks could RP this quite well.

Arena net please make this happen, a certain member of my guild (Liliati) is working on seducing another player. when he is finished it would be nice if we could have an event to signify his success.

This could involve the a tempory church and vicar to marry the 2. with maby some pve elements of the evil haters trying to disrupt it. Im sure you guys can think up some more. ty in advance.

EZCheesy.

I [FU] Luckas Freyclaw take you [BORN] Cora to be my wedded wife. With deepest joy I receive you into my life that together we may be one. As is Christ to His body, the church, so I will be to you a loving and faithful husband. Always will I perform my headship over you even as Christ does over me, knowing that His Lordship is one of the holiest desires for my life. I promise you my deepest love, my fullest devotion, my tenderest care. I promise I will live first unto God rather than others or even you. I promise that I will lead our lives into a life of faith and hope in Christ Jesus. Ever honoring God’s guidance by His spirit through the Word, And so throughout life, no matter what may lie ahead of us, I pledge to you my life as a loving and faithful husband.

Love…..

Excuse me. But I think you’re going to have to get my name correctly if we’re going to live happily ever after.

Cora, Looks like you need a restraining order.

Do it yourself. Get a player to RP as a priest, then find a good location and do it there.