Guild Wars 2

Recently, I was running around LA to see the new happenings with this latest patch. When I came upon Deverol Island, I heard an NPC conversation that talked about a new Chapel coming soon.

Chapels are for weddings. This leads me to speculate that we’ll finally be able to have weddings in game! What a great boon for the RP community should this happen. Can you imagine you and your soulmate, surrounded by 100 of your guildies cheering you on as you tie the knot?

But if not player weddings, perhaps NPCs will have some romantic storylines in upcoming Living Story releases? Kas and Jory finally dedicating their lives to each other? How about Rox and Braham confessing their love? Heck, we could even have a Braham and Taimi storyline too, seeing how much they care for each other. The sky’s the limit!

What do you guys think? Does the upcoming Chapel sound like a great idea or what???

please no, if you want to marry other virtual characters it might be time to take a break from the game or go play a total different game. (e.g. second life or something)

Chapels are for funerals too.

I recall the final fantasy mmo has weddings. That’s an option, if that’s your thing.

wat

i thought in game weddings and stuff like that was even lower priority than mounts

although perhaps another attack on LA in which the chapel blows up might be more exciting for a living story

Anet could be teasing us with their upcoming simulation game, Guild Life. “What happens after the hero comes home, and people get real?”

But yeah, in-game weddings would be a lot less complicated than programming for mounts.

I highly doubt it

Its there for when mordy kills us all…

Anyways, I doubt it will be for weddings. Just a cosmetic feature in the game which players could choose to use with their game play type.

They should allow us to decorate our home instances/guild halls before weddings. RP’ers will at least be able to hold their own weddings with their guilds this way, and carry on buying the name change to have the same last name.

Although these little features are quite nice, Anet should have bigger priorities on their list to please the majority of the community.

While I’m not against in-game weddings, it’s a bit of a stretch to assume that the chapel’s there for that purpose. Three of the five playable races are non-religious, with weddings being somewhat of a novelty. A social construct deemed unecessary for various reasons.

I expect it’ll be a church to the Six, perhaps with shrines to the Spirits too, if Magnus got a say. Something for culture and flavour.

It would not be the first game with weddings. ESO has weddings. For me, the most important thing would be housing. I do have a guild, so guild halls would be nice but those housing instances really are bad.

mcwurth.2081:

please no, if you want to marry other virtual characters it might be time to take a break from the game or go play a total different game. (e.g. second life or something)

Hundreds of players play with their IRL partners and would like this functionality. If you can’t handle others’ relationships, maybe don’t be in a social game.

Garambola.2461:

Chapels are for funerals too.

Yay for chapels!

I don’t believe we should have activateable marriages and such that trigger an event. But I do believe a chapel, for all intended purposes, funerals, weddings and anything else you want to do there could be nice for the RolePlaying community. I think it would be a great addition for them. They only need a building, and the rest they bring themselves.

I dont see why you need a system for ingame weddings. You can share a guildbank and change your character names. What a wonderful wedding gift. A name change scroll. :>

spoj.9672:

I dont see why you need a system for ingame weddings. You can share a guildbank and change your character names. What a wonderful wedding gift. A name change scroll. :>

When you have two people playing, it becomes alot harder to manage your loot, collectibles, money and other possessions. Playing solo is far easier, when you get something you only have to worry about getting it for yourself, not getting a second copy, and never sharing it or having to debate over what to do with it.

Playing as a pair is a lot more involved than most people realize. That is why marriage systems exist, to ease that burden with the “whats yours is mine” concept and vice versa. Granted, they have their risks, just like anything.

The bottom line is someone who plays solo will likely be unable to understand.

Let me put this in a more simple way. When you sell all of your collectibles on the trading post, how much time does it take? A long time, I bet. And you no doubt encounter the “selling error” that throttles sell attempts to stop bots.

Now imagine the time and effort taken and then multiply it by two. And that is just a mild example of what managing so many resources is like.

Smooth Penguin.5294:

The sky’s the limit!

Flying mounts confirmed.

mcwurth.2081:

please no, if you want to marry other virtual characters it might be time to take a break from the game or go play a total different game. (e.g. second life or something)

That’s a rather hilariously ignorant response – in-game weddings have featured in MMOs since there were MMOs. I guess the “RP” part of “RPG” doesn’t mean anything to you.

Hannelore.8153:

When you have two people playing, it becomes alot harder to manage your loot, collectibles, money and other possessions. Playing solo is far easier, when you get something you only have to worry about getting it for yourself, not getting a second copy, and never sharing it or having to debate over what to do with it.

Playing as a pair is a lot more involved than most people realize. That is why marriage systems exist, to ease that burden with the “whats yours is mine” concept and vice versa. Granted, they have their risks, just like anything.

The bottom line is someone who plays solo will likely be unable to understand.

Let me put this in a more simple way. When you sell all of your collectibles on the trading post, how much time does it take? A long time, I bet. And you no doubt encounter the “selling error” that throttles sell attempts to stop bots.

Now imagine the time and effort taken and then multiply it by two. And that is just a mild example of what managing so many resources is like.

I’ve played in a duo with my RL wife for more than a decade now, and this appears to be complete and utter nonsense. You’re not even making sense.

The more likely scenario is the arrival of some crazy new religion.

“A chapel is a religious place of fellowship, prayer and worship”

Could be NPC weddings.
Could be funerals.
Could just be an all purpose place to commune with the assorted gods / spirits in the game that is intended to be non-race specific (an ‘all are welcome’ sort of thing).

But I don’t think we’re looking at possible player char weddings. Could be wrong, but I sure hope not. I actually would prefer to not have that drama in this game.

Smooth Penguin.5294:

Heck, we could even have a Braham and Taimi storyline too, seeing how much they care for each other. The sky’s the limit!

What do you guys think? Does the upcoming Chapel sound like a great idea or what???

Uh… I think we’ll have a legal problem here.

I thought a chapel was a small church, somewhere between a church/temple etc. and a shrine. So it could be used for any/all religious functions.

As for marriage I’ve never entirely understood why this needs to be built into the game to be possible. Ultima Online had no marriage mechanics and a lot of player marriages. My sister (who was mainly an armourer) even had a wedding-planning side business with a friend.

Just get together with some friends, pick an appropriate location and some nice clothes, make up a ceremony and get going. Maybe buy or craft each other rings, or pick another object to exchange. And of course remember supplies for the party afterwards.

Danikat.8537:

Just get together with some friends, pick an appropriate location and some nice clothes, make up a ceremony and get going. Maybe buy or craft each other rings, or pick another object to exchange. And of course remember supplies for the party afterwards.

Very true – helps to have a nice chapel though.

Of course in GW2 you’d have to send the rings via bird, which is a bit weird but there you go!

Eurhetemec.9052:

mcwurth.2081:

please no, if you want to marry other virtual characters it might be time to take a break from the game or go play a total different game. (e.g. second life or something)

That’s a rather hilariously ignorant response – in-game weddings have featured in MMOs since there were MMOs. I guess the “RP” part of “RPG” doesn’t mean anything to you.

Guess lore isn’t a big deal to most RPers these days.

Marriage as a concept is something that’s not present in all Tyrian societies. Religion as a concept is something that is outright rejected in some Tyrian societies. A wedding chapel would be a bizarre novelty for these people. At best.

Considering the way Anet like to ground everything in lore (waypoints, WvW), I’d expect the new chapel to be something or cultural flavour or to feature in a the story somehow. It could be a chapel for the Zaishen Order, who’ve previously had a presence in LA. It could be a new cult HQ. I doubt it’ll be just a glorified registry office though,

Zera Allimatti.2541:

The more likely scenario is the arrival of some crazy new religion.

All respects go to Hero-Tron

It was stated in the novel Sea of Sorrows that there was a chapel on an island away form LA because they were concerned how the other races would react it being in LA. It turned out that all the races actually helped build it. Well it is possible that the chapel was destroyed either during the karka attack or Scarlett’s attack so it is possible that they are rebuilding it inside LA.

“A chapel is a religious place of fellowship, prayer and worship that is attached to a larger, often nonreligious institution or that is considered an extension of a primary religious institution.”

Not necessarily for weddings and the people of LA will likely need a place to worship their Gods after such destruction plus Mordremoth’s awakening.

I don’t care if we have it or not, but I can admit the utility of in-game marriage is nice. If you don’t want to wed another player, you could have your alt account marry your main. I believe in most games marriage allows two players to share account bound items and currency, a major convenience for alt accounts or real life couples and friends who game together.

Crossflip.4390:

I recall the final fantasy mmo has weddings. That’s an option, if that’s your thing.

They do, and it’s not gender restricted. You also get a special mount for both players, wedding outfits, and a ring that teleports you to your partner.

Personally I never understood why the GW2 community is so against in-game marriage.

Celestina.2894:

Crossflip.4390:

I recall the final fantasy mmo has weddings. That’s an option, if that’s your thing.

They do, and it’s not gender restricted. You also get a special mount for both players, wedding outfits, and a ring that teleports you to your partner.

Personally I never understood why the GW2 community is so against in-game marriage.

The Ring would be amazing! Forget the mount, give us a title we can wear instead. But that ring would be amazing!

Dante.1763:

Celestina.2894:

Crossflip.4390:

I recall the final fantasy mmo has weddings. That’s an option, if that’s your thing.

They do, and it’s not gender restricted. You also get a special mount for both players, wedding outfits, and a ring that teleports you to your partner.

Personally I never understood why the GW2 community is so against in-game marriage.

The Ring would be amazing! Forget the mount, give us a title we can wear instead. But that ring would be amazing!

At least for ff14, it really is extremely helpful in certain areas. For example there are these called hunts that spawns varied “ranked” boss monsters, sometimes you miss them because of loading times + travel time as the mobs spawn randomly in set windows and not everyone is willing to wait long. Think world bosses but less predictable.

If you’re partner is there already however, you can click the ring and go directly to them, skipping travel time and probably loading quicker as most people would be porting to the nearest outpost.

Also, the ring can be used for glamour purposes (accessories show up on your character unless hidden by armor).

Only down side sadly is it can only be used every 30 minutes.

Celestina.2894:

Only down side sadly is it can only be used every 30 minutes.

Still sounds wonderful! That 30 minutes would be enough, i dont need it more than that! I RP and one use a day would work for me!

Dante.1763:

Celestina.2894:

Only down side sadly is it can only be used every 30 minutes.

Still sounds wonderful! That 30 minutes would be enough, i dont need it more than that! I RP and one use a day would work for me!

Oh totally it’s super helpful. But yeah GW2 could totally do what final fantasy 14 does just without the mount.

The basis is the couple do some quests together that involve a lot of walking, then obtain the ring and wedding outfits. Then they schedule a time, give out invites to people they want to show up, then pick the ceremony details (music, color scheme of decorations, cut scenes that play etc etc). Then on that date it goes down, couple gets their mount and the guests get their own minion (basically a mini)

It’s something I think would make RPers and non-RPers alike happy.

If you’re a role-player you can do this anyway, don’t see why we need a system just for this :s

penelopehannibal.8947:

If you’re a role-player you can do this anyway, don’t see why we need a system just for this :s

No one needs it, but then no one needs trans stones either. It’s just that extra fluff to make some players happy while not really changing anything for other players and it can make Anet extra money depending on how they do it if they did.

Celestina.2894:

Dante.1763:

Celestina.2894:

Only down side sadly is it can only be used every 30 minutes.

Still sounds wonderful! That 30 minutes would be enough, i dont need it more than that! I RP and one use a day would work for me!

Oh totally it’s super helpful. But yeah GW2 could totally do what final fantasy 14 does just without the mount.

The basis is the couple do some quests together that involve a lot of walking, then obtain the ring and wedding outfits. Then they schedule a time, give out invites to people they want to show up, then pick the ceremony details (music, color scheme of decorations, cut scenes that play etc etc). Then on that date it goes down, couple gets their mount and the guests get their own minion (basically a mini)

It’s something I think would make RPers and non-RPers alike happy.

They would however have to do something different for certain races. The Charr in particular. They dont do weddings(they have mates) so far as i know, Same with the Asura..i could see the Sylvari doing it(Mainly because of how they interact with other cultures) And the Norn do have weddings.

Dante.1763:

Celestina.2894:

Dante.1763:

Celestina.2894:

Only down side sadly is it can only be used every 30 minutes.

Still sounds wonderful! That 30 minutes would be enough, i dont need it more than that! I RP and one use a day would work for me!

Oh totally it’s super helpful. But yeah GW2 could totally do what final fantasy 14 does just without the mount.

The basis is the couple do some quests together that involve a lot of walking, then obtain the ring and wedding outfits. Then they schedule a time, give out invites to people they want to show up, then pick the ceremony details (music, color scheme of decorations, cut scenes that play etc etc). Then on that date it goes down, couple gets their mount and the guests get their own minion (basically a mini)

It’s something I think would make RPers and non-RPers alike happy.

They would however have to do something different for certain races. The Charr in particular. They dont do weddings(they have mates) so far as i know, Same with the Asura..i could see the Sylvari doing it(Mainly because of how they interact with other cultures) And the Norn do have weddings.

They could maybe work it in as something entirely new, like some new tradition not linked to any one race. It require some good writing of course to make it gel, but it could work.

Celestina.2894:

They could maybe work it in as something entirely new, like some new tradition not linked to any one race. It require some good writing of course to make it gel, but it could work.

Yep that would work too actually! Idea is at least interesting!

When I saw it was going to be a chapel, weddings didn’t come to my mind at all. Even though I’ve been in many RP weddings in many games and helped to organize quite a few of them, my mind went to other religious needs for chapels in a war-devastated city. Maybe part of that is that I’ve RP’d the Deverol house as a hospital in the past — after the initial karka invasion, for instance, when my character was mangled by a rolling karka.

I guess we’ll see the architectural design. If it’s a small room with little statues in niches around the walls, that’s not great for wedding rites with more than a few participants. If it’s larger scale with areas devoted to all the racial variations of faith, and has a good amount of floor space, that could work better.

so i need to find a ingame gf now

Well, if weddings are to be included in the game now, I guess I get the officially marry my husband… well, my husband’s GW 2 avatar at any rate.

Weirwynn.2390:

Smooth Penguin.5294:

In-game Weddings confirmed? [speculation]

You have no idea what the word “confirmed” actually means, do you?

That was my first thought, too. The use of “confirmed? [speculation]” in the title made me laugh.

Ephemiel.5694:

Not necessarily for weddings and the people of LA will likely need a place to worship their Gods after such destruction plus Mordremoth’s awakening.

You mean humans of LA, because other races either practice differently (Norn), don’t worship gods at all (Sylvari, Asura) or even are violently opposed (charr)?

Aren’t they also building new bridges over water? Fishing confirmed [speculation].

Well firstly that introduces the usually nonsense around homosexual relationships (but I think ANet has already taken a strong pro stance here so probably not a problem), then there’s the question of… how and why? I mean what would be the benefit of a in-game marriage system as apposed to a couple of RPers getting together and doing their own marriage thing? And if they did implement it, well that’s a very RP kinda thing and GW2 hasn’t been to RP friendly as far as I know.

Or perhaps it was just a bit of dialogue meant to increase player immersion into the daily lives of the citizens of Lion’s Arch?

Especially in the trying times that these NPCs have to live through, I’m sure the many human residents would like a chapel where they can peacefully pray to Dwayna for good health, Melandru for a good harvest, Grenth for the souls of those they’ve lost, Balthazar for courage, Lyssa for the inspiration to rebuild, and Kormir for the ability to body-block your allies— I mean a peaceful future.

Hannelore.8153:

mcwurth.2081:

please no, if you want to marry other virtual characters it might be time to take a break from the game or go play a total different game. (e.g. second life or something)

Hundreds of players play with their IRL partners and would like this functionality. If you can’t handle others’ relationships, maybe don’t be in a social game.

I do not see what “not being able to handle others relationships” have to do with me not liking weddins in this game. RP it use a namechange scroll keep it for yourself and your guildies. no need to add a fairly useless “feature” into this game.
If it is about real life partners, they can make characters together, so not even needed to buy namechange contracts.

Smooth Penguin.5294:

Recently, I was running around LA to see the new happenings with this latest patch. When I came upon Deverol Island, I heard an NPC conversation that talked about a new Chapel coming soon.

Chapels are for weddings. This leads me to speculate that we’ll finally be able to have weddings in game! What a great boon for the RP community should this happen. Can you imagine you and your soulmate, surrounded by 100 of your guildies cheering you on as you tie the knot?

But if not player weddings, perhaps NPCs will have some romantic storylines in upcoming Living Story releases? Kas and Jory finally dedicating their lives to each other? How about Rox and Braham confessing their love? Heck, we could even have a Braham and Taimi storyline too, seeing how much they care for each other. The sky’s the limit!

What do you guys think? Does the upcoming Chapel sound like a great idea or what???

chap·el
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noun
1.
a small building for Christian worship, typically one attached to an institution or private house.

They are places of worship, NOT just for weddings or funerals. Just FYI.

When people hear the word “Chapel”, the first things a majority will think of is “Church” and “Wedding” because they are positive images. “Death” or “Funeral” is far low on the list, as that’s a more negative term. It’s like when you look at a cute quaggan. The first thing you think is “love” or “I want to hug it”.

As for wedding mechanics, why are some people so against it? I could understand the pushback if we were discussing solely homosexual weddings, as that’s a hot topic in and of itself. But weddings in general aren’t controversial. All religions have some type of union. I’m positive that each and every country that GW2 is played in has marriage.