Petition for GW Marriages

If he was referring to Second Life the game, then he actually said "Guild Wars is a game, not Second Life the game!", which I also agree with. Guild Wars is Guild Wars, and not Second Life or World of Warcraft or any other game for that matter!

*sigh*

If I indulge this for a minute, which is more than long enough to expose the wrong of it, I'll say the following...

He *might* mean that:
"Guild Wars, unlike Second Life, is not designed to emulate real life."

To which I will reply:
"Neither is Lineage 2 designed as a game that emulates real life, yet it includes marriage for the sole purpose of fun and RP because it is an Online RPG, just like Guild Wars."

Therefore:
It has obvious purpose being in a game like GW.
It can not be rightly said to be out of place in GW.

Now that I've pointed at the dangling nethers of sir.obvious, can we move on from the "has no place in GW" line of incorrect thought?

~Mitsuki~

I'm sorry but what on earth are you babbling on about? I simply said he might be refering to the game Second Life then commented on how I would rather have ArenaNet spend time on gameplay than features like this. If all your gonna do is rant and flame people without actually reading there posts then I suggust this thread be locked asap.

lock thread: /signed

Add something cool. like to be able to dye the undyable parts of your armor, theres an idea! marrige? hell no.

WTB one kitchen slave. PST for offer.

/sign

i think it will be a neato idea!

/notsigned

Not my idea of a good thing to be confronted with marriages in a game

/notsigned

im getting married in real life. this game is going to be where i go to GET AWAY from teh wifey. the last thing i want is to have 2 of them bitching at me...

here's an idea

lets keep real life stuff in real life

if people feel the need to get married in a game they should step away from the computer.

/signed

In our guild are many women and mans that want to marry =)

what already has been said, but i really need to restate it:
/notsigned

developers, use your time on a new trading system, and proper this time. Please!

Well, considering that Guild Wars is labeled an MMO, and not an MMORPG, I think that marriage within the game would be a bit more than just a stretch.

To explain my point:

Guild Wars is about two things: storyline, and PvP. The eventual goal of the storyline is to prep you for PvP - at least, this is the impression I have always recieved.

Now, there is a third point that is very obvious and doesn't need mentioning, but because I want all of my bases to be covered, it's: to have fun. The idea of marriage within a game is a fun one, granted, but I can just think of where it would head from the get-go.

Your idea of having some special content for married couples is nice, but ultimately unsatisfying; I would hazard a guess that after a very short period of time everyone would be married to someone else just to have access to the special items you recieve - it would be more incentive than just plain fun, and when you give the greedy (lots of those roaming around) incentive that can in any way be construed as monetary, you know the flocks will come a' running.

There is an easy solution to this problem, which is to customize items acquired by the married couple to the married couple alone upon acquisition, but eh, is it really that great? Is it really that special?

Marriage was fun in a game like, say, Morrowind. But, in a game like Guild Wars, World of Warcraft, etc. it just doesn't fit. Not as an official patch to the game. Getting married for role-playing purposes seems more suited to role-playing games, which Guild Wars is certainly not.

That said, it's always fun to get together in a guild hall and have a blast with friends. I would imagine that if you wanted to be married to another character within the game you could simply gather together a group of friends, lots of novelty items, some in-game alcohol for a reception afterwords, and all go nuts and dance once the she-bang was through.

But as far as official content goes, I think it'd be more of a waste than anything, as nice an idea as it may be.

/notsigned

This isn't an MMORPG, and if it were I wouldn't be playing it.

/notsigned

Absolutely hillarious. Pardon me but, 2008 is still more than a year away. Also, let's keep political correctiveness outside GW?

/not signed

- Vel

Would your plan also include an "island" for quickie divorces? I have an idea a GW divorce court lol that can be watched in OM.

Seriously tho, I'm already married and happy in real life. I play GW because it doesn't have all that icky, feminine, real-life stuff.

/not signed

Can't remember who said it but, "Two wives is one to many. So is one wife."

/notsign

waste Devs time some more? no thanks.

agreed......anyone who got married in game would have a big target on there back saying "FLAME ME".....

/notsigned /neversigned /whyevenask

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I'm married IRL. My wife plays as well. Pretty sure the only person she'd let me marry in game would be her character. No reason to marry her character, I'm already married to her.

If I were to marry someone else in game, well it would probably lead to real life domestic trouble - not worth it.

Unless I could marry Cynn, then go on a honeymoon and finally get to see that thong!

/notsigned

I think it is completely irrelevant to the whole game.
Make war, not love.
Hence the name Guild Wars, instead of Guild Love.

/notsigned

There is no use for this in gw

Correction: Since when was Diablo 2 ever coined CORPG? Did you decide all that for yourself just to prove something?
Correction: GW is MMORPG; consider CORPGs to be a subset of MMORPGs. ANet felt that GW didn't fit the broader aspects of MMORPG so they coined GW as CORPG to further define the genre.

Looks to me like you're confused.

Not gonna /sign or /notsign this but the idea seems like a harmless suggestion to me that may add amusement factor for some folks.