Petition for GW Marriages

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reasons:

1. Its a bad idea. to much drama, you would have retards fighting over who gets to keep the moa in town or some other useless reason for drama we dont need.
2. If you are so hard up that you need to "marry" someone in a video game please get help now. Talk to a counsler now before you place the gun in your mouth (or dont)
3. As a parent, I do not want my children getting married to some perv. Its hard enough to moniter what they do and say online dont give the pedo bastards something else to use to harm children.

"Oh hey baby, hows my little wife" fat bastard
"LoL I M good. Do u love me?" kid
blah blah blah we should meet IRL
here goes the engine))
RED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GO that! There is now way in hell I would even let my kids play if this were an option. I think guild wars is fairly safe as it is. One because it is not a RP game. Like another poster said marriage is not a game it is work. It has meaning. Be it man/woman man/man what ever I dont care true marriage should have meaning do not degrade it anymore then it already has been with the usual tv shit and movie puke that is thrown on it.

GET A LIFE. Go find a real person, date them for a while, then marry them. Quit looking for reasons to masterbate to a cartoon character that shakes her tits when she dances.

~the Married for 13 years Rat~

in game marriages are always a bad idea. Guild wars should just get a real dating service like match.com as a sponsor. Whenever someone types /marriage, gw will just spawn a website to match.com for those looking for love.

P.S. not everyone who you meet online are what they say they are

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Creepy.

As a concept, I think its a fun idea, and the key word there, is fun. I believe that the OP in no way considers marriage in game to be reflective of real life, whereas too many ppl here clearly cant understand that.

It wont actually be YOU the real life person getting married, just your char, and if your char is fictional, why cant your char have a fictional marriage?

Anyways, if ppl are worried about too much drama, they dont actually have to do it!

Sounds cheesy and fun, something good friends or guildies might do!
why not,
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That basically covers it IMO. If you want to get married in a game world, it's definitely time to get up from the computer and walk away.

It seems like a good idea, but it really isn't. Its (as the above poster said) creepy. And besides, since when is Guild Wars a grind?

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you contradict yourself. You say that it would be fun, but people would not be able to tell the difference between this and reality. That is the whole reason people have been arguing against this? to many people taking it seriously. Some fat ugly female who is lonely and thinking the male she is talking to is hot as hell and the dream man. Guess what? hes not. You are handing a tool to child molesters to make it easier to attack children. Would it be cheesy fun? no realy whats the point? It is an adventure based game. not a RPG. You dont go get a normal job have kids and settle down on the farm. You go kill charr, shiro and abbodon. These places are not where you would want to start a familly.

again Get Help! Get Therapy.


~the Rat~

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this is retarded and pointless you dont need marriages

i think that someone also said "gay marriages would of course be included" when you add something like that then your getting into religion and politics......2 things that should never be discussed when your trying to relax

double post XD sry.

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You're either stoned or joking.

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For me, GW can a place to escape the drama and day-to-day routine of reality. I don't really want to have all the drama of "married" guildmates taking over the Guild chat.

Also, the point about giving child molestors easier access is a valid one, in my opinion. What would happen to GW if it faced the onslaught of criticism that Myspace has? Would parents forbid their children from playing GW if they thought their child(ren) could be in danger? Is it a far stretch? Perhaps. However, a year ago, who would have thought Myspace would have come under the scrutiny it received?


And quoting from Wikipedia's home page, "Welcome to Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia that anyone* can edit." Which basically means that I could edit Wikipedia to say that a CORPG is not a sub-category of an MMORPG if it fit my arguement.


*emphasis added

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dude, this isn't a dating game where you can find your true love. This is Guild Wars, a game that was meant for people to be friends, and do quests, and satisfy your need to play in the medivle era. Another bad reason is that when people get married, they will then think that this is an okay person, when in reality, you could be marrying osama bin ladden! And also, you may give out personal info to your "spouse", or hook up to meet sometime, and that just isn't good internet safety. This is the worst idea that I have ever seen and it is not needed in guild wars. It's as bad as cybering. Am I right people????

You don't need to use every feature they put in a game. Also, I would assume that a "married" couple would keep their bikering to whispers, team chat, and all chat. Personally, if I keep seeing the same two people using guild chat for fights, then they get a boot.

Wait, how would being "married" in a game make you venerable to molestation? You think that a child is going to say to their parents, "I'm going out to meet my Guild Wars wife at the shopping mall" and the parents are just going to let the child go? Well if they do, then they're crappy parents. Frankly, I don't think that there would be any added danger, since at the moment in game, you can still have some "perv" running around trying to get children's adresses.

So I take it you don't like Wikipedia? Well, luckily, I happen to have a link you may like to see. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiality#Wikiality Yes, anyone can change Wikipedia, but that doesn't mean that everything on the site is wrong.
Think about it, a CORPG is a game that also has a large number of people playing it. It also has a large environment in which you can play. Now by that would mean that the game is Massive and Multiplayer. So therefore, it is a MMORPG. See what happens when you stop trying to sound smart, and actually think?

Now, yet again, I must state that I have not offered support for the idea, nor am I against it. I am simply trying to clean up the people who insist on using excuses that have no grounds as their reason against the idea (seeing how most of the people who support the idea get bashed eough by everyone else as it is).

^ I think legion_rat has pretty much said everything I myself think, although in a more... subtle way . I've seen this thread floating around here for a while now so I thought I'd have my say anyway. This is a bad idea, marriages are for real life and they are supposed to be meaningful with a strong purpose in a couple's relationship. I wouldn't want to "marry" some girl (allegedly a girl...) over the internet because I thought I "loved" her, it simply isn't justifiable.

TESTIFY BROTHER!

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its a video game

To the OP and anyone else who is for an in-game marriage feature, I think you all are missing the point about the appropriateness of what you are requesting. Regardless of the virtual or fictional environment, many people do and should take marriage seriously. Marriages are special ceremonies limited to adults in real life, and that’s primarily where they should remain.

There are a lot of things out there in the world which people may consider fun, but they aren’t necessarily appropriate everywhere, let alone in this game. For example, I imagine some people may include gerbils in a “fun” activity, but gerbils aren’t appropriate outside a few situations. Gerbils certainly aren’t appropriate at work, nor at the grocery store, not at Thanksgiving dinner, and especially not in front of children. I don’t think it’s appropriate to pander to the gerbil fanclub people and incorporate a gerbil merchant in-game, just because some people think gerbils are “fun”.

Also, having worked in an environment where there is a very high divorce rate amongst peers (read: servicemen), I tend to take a different perspective than those who may not have been exposed to such an environment. Having seen many close friends and colleagues (scores, I’m not kidding) go through terrible divorces, I can assure you that “fun” was not something they were having. Lives were ruined because they weren’t taking their marriages seriously. I could tell you some stories that’d curl your hair about some f’d up situations I’ve seen buddies go through, so be aware that divorce is on the flip side of that marriage coin you are promoting, and divorce is most certainly “not cool”. There’s no such thing as a npc in real life which you can click on to get a divorce, it is a hell of a lot more complex than that.

As many people have already stated, a marriage feature in this game is not appropriate. I’d suggest picking up some red iris flowers or maybe some of the gifts for Althea and exchanging them, have Mhenlo or your guild lord provide your blessings, and invite your friends to your own private ceremony. Incorporating it into the game as a feature is not a good idea.

Finally a post that doesn't just bash the OP or use some bad excuse. I was thinking about making a request for a post like this.

my post pushed way too many buttons... and I'd hate to be banned from the forums.