Weddings and stuff

[Randa_The_Kitsune]

Re: Weddings and stuff

Well Jekk why don't you put this in the Ask SE fourm and see if they will answer it on why they did it that way. It will get more people to appily for weddings and others stop complaining taht mithra can't marry another mithra.

[Draco Dagon]

Re: Weddings and stuff

Warning:





The following things written have some talk about homosexual marriage and homosexuals in general. If your religous beliefs or own beliefs are against gays, please do not continue reading. Also, flames are not welcome, I put this warning here for a reason.
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My brother sometimes watches me play FFXI, and he saw me talking to my friend about a wedding in LS chat (I think she registered yesterday!^^). I asked him to look up wedding info on his laptop (of course I had to help him since he doesn't know anything about FFXI). He saw on a website, which I can provide if needed, that weddings can only be between "a person of another gender", it was said as if there's 4 differen't genders.

My brother didn't care, but it got us wondering, how many players in FFXI are homosexual? And how many are offended they can't marry someone? I think it might have a slight affect on "manthras".

And on a random side note so "My brother didn't care" quote, he's gay.


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Just so people know, this is also a thread to discuss why you think S-E avoided gay marriage on FFXI. In my opinion, it's because people who are strongly against homosexuality would complain, but then I question the amount of gay and lesbian players complain.

I think same-sex marriage should be allowed in FFXI. There's no requirement that you must choose your character's gender according to your own RL gender, so why have requirements on marriage? There's no way to prove that your Mithra bride-to-be isn't actually a Manthra, so why should the character's gender matter at all? My husband and I both play female characters, so that means we can't apply for marriage, which irritates me.

Final Fantasy XI is an RPG, period. RPGs are based on D&D-style gaming, which categorically based on JRR Tolkien's work (as I recall), which is based on the WESTERN dark ages (not EASTERN, please read that). Thus, it is only reasonable that unless SE wanted to make it oriented in some other fashion, they would not allow for homosexual marriage.

Besides all that, they'd have to then allow for beastiality and polygamy under the Equal rights act and all that. (Not that I wouldn't mind committing marriage with a few dragons here and there, mind you! )

[The_Hero]

Re: Weddings and stuff

Why not? well I guess its about the moral, ethical and social views about this type of stuff, I mean kids play this game too, and by being exposed to this stuff could screw with their little innocent minds, I think Square created this game in the interest of the side with the most power especially politicians, I mean if they heard homosexual marriages were allowed they'd shut this thing down b4 it touches the market.