Same Gender Marriages in MMOs - Page 4

MagesRequiem · 12-07-2007, 11:46 PM

What game was that? Anyways, i'm cool with same sex marriages but men playing women or vice versa, i'm completely against. The only reason people are against same sex marriages is because they're afraid of what they don't understand. So they come up with stupid shit that usually involves religion like "God hates fags and if they marry its spitting in Gods face!". You know? Stupid crud like that.

**O-mie** · 12-08-2007, 01:11 AM

I was talking about DOMO, actually XD

Jannekki · 12-08-2007, 01:33 AM

These days ppls plays male character even shes she irl and ppl plays female character even hes he.. theres no code actually them to make it public what so ever. :I Theres no need to code the game to make same sex marriage possible. If its actually done, i think its more of a problem than a good thing.. since theres not so many gays playing compared to heterosexuality.

MaxOff · 12-08-2007, 03:44 AM

from technical stand point, its harder to prevent same gender marriage, then allowing it, but not much.

Its also that people are forgetting what rpg(role playing game) means. It means we play a role that doesn't have to be ourself. So even if u are not gay at all, u could play a gay character of the opposite sex if u want, because its just a role and not u.

**Hraesvelg** · 12-08-2007, 05:37 AM

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a gene that favors same gender sex? Such genes will die out very fast

Statistically speaking, an individual has the same chances of sharing a particular gene with a sibling* (I'm using gene in the sense of "bit of DNA that is the fundamental unit of heredity") as they are of their own offspring, both at 50%. It might benefit an individual, therefore, to develop a non-reproductive strategy, in order to care for siblings.

Granted, I'm not including homo sapiens in this, as consciousness throws a bit of a spanner into pure genetic determination. Then we get to talking about memes in association with genes and it gets even more complicated. I've truly making these statements in very broad terms. Reading more about the subject of will help you see why the "common sense" approach isn't always the correct one. Richard Dawkins is a good place to start, "The Selfish Gene" in particular.

*A sibling from a monogamous parental mating.

**Enraya** · 12-08-2007, 07:50 AM

Ahhhh~ DOMO

I'm not against same-gender marriages. I don't even see what's so fascinating about it. If you want to go "ooh, ahh, ew, it's homosexuality!" to every same-sex marriage out there, then why don't you go "ooh, ahh, ew, it's heterosexuality!" to every different-gender marriage out there?
It's just another part of life.
NA, in general, isn't as accepting of this idea because they don't have the tradition of marrying family members and same gender members etc.

When a girl plays a guy, or a guy plays a girl in online games and marry though, I'm a little disgusted. Not that I'm against it - I know that some people want to be of the opposite gender - but it's just not what I'm used to. I think that goes for same-sex marriages for some people.

**Hraesvelg** · 12-08-2007, 08:24 AM

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NA, in general, isn't as accepting of this idea because they don't have the tradition of marrying family members and same gender members etc.

You're equating homosexuality with incest?

**Lilian** · 12-08-2007, 02:12 PM

*palmface*

Seems threads like these just shouldn't be made after all.

**Lady-Loki** · 12-08-2007, 04:23 PM

When you enter into these relationships, be it friendship / teacher-pupil / lovers, does this add any type of avatar or wording to the appearance of the characters involved? Or do the characters still look today the same as they did yesterday?

If they look the same then why do the game dev's care since no one would know this relationship was formed other than those involved in the relationship?

And, basically, if people are really pissed that these relationships are permitted or formed then I believe they have the right to not log in and just find another game. I would recommend Toontown for them.

**Spirit** · 12-08-2007, 04:51 PM

What are the benefits to being married in the game?
And I think that it is silly that it wont let the same gender character get married. If the bebefits are good enough, what if I wanted to marry someone just for the benfits. My best bet would be to marry Lady-Loki, since we are always on together and always play together. There is nothing between us, I mean, she is my mother. But, it would just make sense.
So again, what benefits are there to getting "married" in the game?