RP: Marriage.. Relationship.. Purpose?

[hiddindragon08]

Hey I'm wondering.. In UO we had lots of people get married and have houses together.. things like that..
In FFXI I roleplayed and it gave my character some more purpose.. And people enjoyed it.. Nothing like sending a private message to that mithra in iddy biddy armor with a giant 2handed sword.. "I just want you to know.. I will guard you with my life. I will die for you."

It started as a joke while playin with a few friends in the same room with me, we had a bit to drink and started roleplaying pretty heavily.. haha. Well this ended up being quite the trend for all of us, have a few drinks.. Give purpose to the person next to us..
After a while we had a lot of people who wanted to party with us 24/7 since we were a riot and fun but also had more of a personal touch in the party. Eventually one of my friends got "Married" to the hume white mage and it was quite the fun experience for us all.. I actually enjoyed seeing 35people attend a wedding and such in game.

So what's your thoughts..
Roleplaying is just as it implies, but what of the "Real" "Relationships" or friendships that people create through it?

-Nu

[Monsoon Rhayne]

I tend to like Marrage in games, cause it gives another avenue to RPing, you do have to be careful who you have a relationship with online though...just as in RL there can be mistakes made and someone could get hurt.

Have fun though :)

[Raya]

I tend to like Marrage in games, cause it gives another avenue to RPing, you do have to be careful who you have a relationship with online though...just as in RL there can be mistakes made and someone could get hurt.

Have fun though :)
This is more true than you think. I played A TALE IN THE DESERT for quite some time. In that game, marriages were taken very seriously by the game itself, and once you were married there was no getting out of it. Marriage itself gave the two involved a credit in the "quests" available in game (i.e. they weren't exactly quests but tasks that led to higher status, in this case in the Discipline of Spirit). In ATITD no one could die--with one exception. There was something (can't remember exactly what) that a person could eat that would give them more time for travel (kind of complicated). However, this thing to eat was poisonous and cumulative. If a person ate enough of it, they would, in fact die, and that would be the end of that character - no rez, no recouping of the hours and hours spent raising the character's status in all the disciplines.

Well, you guessed it - a married couple had a serious falling out. Now this wouldn't be too bad, but by Egypt's law (in game) the spouses had instant access to each other's account and this could not be blocked. The wife in this instance was so angry at her husband in game that she logged his character on...and in effect killed him. Controversy raged over this for a long time, but there was no reversing it.

Conditions aren't quite that bad in other games, but marriage does impact on your reputation and your very enjoyment of the game, either positively or negatively. It is not something to be rushed into. Like the saying goes, "Act impulsively and repent at leisure." However, if you do find the right person in game to marry, it can indeed be a blessing.

[Eclipse]

I played Asheron's Call with a girlfriend. We got married ingame..and although it was just a joke. It was fun. Made breaking up a few months later seem like a divorce though, rofl.
she really DID throw all my stuff out her house door.
:p

-Eclipse

[Integral]

Marriages in-game...

...I don't judge people who do marry, i concede it can be fun - however I just don't understand people who 'break-up' in-game and become broken hearted, disconsolate because an in-game relationship is over.

...I also don't even pretend to understand why some people make it their pass time in games to hit on everyone of the opposite sex they seem to meet. If you're looking for a relationship in-game, at least do it with some sense of style.

...I think it could be fun, provided the person keeps his/her head. I typically play guy characters in MMOs and I don't care if the person behind the girl character is a real girl IRL or not - who cares, not me. Is that dwarf really a dwarf in real life ? Nope. Should that girl really be a girl in real life ? Nope.

But a lot of other people have problems in this area.

Saying that, I've been playing MMOs for about 3 years now and I haven't yet had an in-game relationship. I've formed some great friendships though - and that's what rocks about MMOs as far as I am concerned.