Do You Care WHO You Marry on MS?

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1. Must be a "girl" playing a guy character or a "guy" playing a girl character, or must never mention gender. I don't want to know.
2. Must hate or dislike something about me, preferably everything. There will be no Maple Story relationship or anything similarly insulting to myself.
3. Must never use spouse chat. There are enough chats.

Looks like... you don't care then? "Must never use spouse chat...?"
So therefore, marriage to you is not really a friendship, it's merely a joint between two people who want to utilize the system to farm apples. You want to stay strangers w/ your spouse...?

Must NOT talk to me in anyway.
Must NOT use Spouse Chat
JUST watch me get rich farming apples.

I should start counting the number of people who post this way. It's just sad that Maple's a game merely for profit and not for recreation.

For my mains, I have a male DK married to my gf's DK. My rule for that is that it MUST be gf's main character, no other exceptions. (Paid for the entire wedding)

For my Night Lord, since it is a female, I don't really care, but I'd like to marry a male Hermit/NL (that is not DEXless) that I've known for a really long time, OR a girl that is playing a male Night Lord. As long as it is a friend that I've known that plays a NL, I guess. o_O; (Paid for half of the wedding)

Btw, both my characters are married. Some dude married my Cleric (mule) too, lmfaaaao. Which, may I add, I did not pay for the wedding.

So you do care but you ended up marrying someone's mule? x.X

i wanna marry my lovely g/f susie <3

Props to you. The majority of the posts I read on SW and here are money oriented.

I don't care because i don't marry other people, i marry my mules.
I don't want some 40 year old dude from Detroit spamming spouse chat for mesos.

And who would? You're simply prejudiced because most 40 year old people do NOT play MS.

This seems the most logical unless someones splitting the bill for marriage with you, this way you can level the mule and then get 2 APQs and your money goes twice as far as if you were to marry someone else.

So you'd marry yourself in order to get 2x the apples?
I'm going to say this, if there's a price on friendship, you've just traded a friendship opportunity for virtual money.

I married my RL gf (who started me on MS)
SO its pretty safe. I hope.
But if I were to marry again I'd probably do a mule of mine for the sheer
simplicity of it.

Simplicity? How? What's the point?

Point number 2 is important (Who wants to waste 10k NX over a person being stupid?)
Point number 3 is kinda beside the point (I assume you're talking about marrying for APQ)
Point number 1 is... same as 3 (Even if you were homophobic, who cares?)

It's kinda strange being married to a person your same gender, don't you think? I'm not homophobic, but I'm certainly not a homo either. What's wrong with point number three? I'd like to have someone to chat with when I'm on since apparently my guild chat fails me and my buddy chat is rarely active.

I think that if you're marrying for APQ, it's best to just either marry a good friend who you can trust isn't going to cause drama of any kinda further down the line. Either that or you should just make an APQ mule of the opposite gender to marry. If you married a friend, they should pay half to make it fair.

So therefore, again it loops back to money and security? An APQ security issue causes everyone to ditch someone they can talk to.

Those that smega are weird. Though I don't think they are the people in it for APQ...

What else would they do it for?

So yeah, I'd say I do care.

I guess the problem with my poll is that I worded it wrong. I should have made a poll saying what you would marry:
1) Homo relations?
2) Mules?
3) Random people?
4) Close Friends?
5) Older?
6) Younger?
And allow multiple choice.

Weren't you there when I was discussing this on BL? Or did I remember wrong?

Since when was it buying friendships? And if the person you marry isn't an idiot, then well... I don't think that drama from money is ever going to happen anyway

At first when I read this, I thought people meant they were marrying randoms for both the APQ and another person they can talk to. That would be "buying friendship" because you'd only be friends because you play together for a PQ.

I became friends with a girl, and when the refer-a-friend event came around, we agreed to abuse it to get married for apq benefits. I made 2 mules and she made 2.

That was the only reason I got married. I wouldn't want to marry a rl gf who also plays maple because if the relationship goes down the drain, then so would the ring...D:

And couldn't the same happen online? People behind the computer won't be angry at you at all? Keep in mind these are REAL people you're dealing with, not just another character. I guess the difference between many people and I is that I actually treat other characters like they are people while many people treat other people like they're CPUs.

I'll marry whoever; I'm only in it for the apples (Though a hopeless online crush has persuaded me into marrying them before). I wouldn't, however, just marry some random person I met through a Smega. That's just weird, and is also an easy way to get yourself jipped out of $25.

Even if the smega'er offered to pay half? Two-thirds? Three-Fourths? What is the line between paying and not paying for a random then?

Interact... with people... on maple? BLASPHEMY!

LoL. How come online friends are treated like... a joke these days?

Not for everyone.

I got Maple-married to my IRL fiance the day weddings were released. We even stayed up the extra couple hours during the emergency server check just because we were so excited to get married. We are both poor college students, and our real wedding is nowhere in sight. Having a small "ceremony" in MS was really, really sweet, and it meant a great deal to me at the time that at least our virtual characters could be married when we didn't have the money to be married in real life. Having the little glowing star hovering over our heads, as small (and irritating to other people) as it was, to me was a way to say, "he's mine" to the rest of the Maple world.

I should probably say that I have four characters who are married in MS. Three of them are married to my fiance's characters; the other is a mule who is married to a very close and trusted friend in the game. He wanted to marry someone who he could trust enough not to break the ring under any circumstances, and had no qualms about paying for the entire wedding.

I really don't have a problem with people marrying just for APQ. It's a mutual agreement with mutual benefits so let them do what they want with their money. In the long run I'd say it's a much better investment than $25 worth of gach anyway.

tl;dr: Yes, it matters to me who I marry in MS. If I'm paying for the wedding, I'll only marry my fiance's characters. If the other person is paying, he/she has to be a trusted friend. No strangers plz.

LoL. Another person who cares about the friendship aspect of marriage. I'm looking hard for these types of people but apparently nobody treats a game with seriousness.

I find online GAME relationships to be the stupidest thing to ever be thought up. ~_~ The only reasonable relationship I can see on a game is if they are a couple in real life. For gods sake.. if you're trying to find a mate on a kids game.. you've got a problem. Go to match.com or eharmony.com for gods sake..

Perhaps I didn't state clearly but I did not say anywhere that I was getting married.

And yes I can understand if you are really good friends with someone of the opposite sex in the game and you marry them... but if you try to make something out of it and start with the "omg i love you hun" or "goodnight babe" type of phrases, you've gone too far.

LoL. What's wrong with a "good night"? Maybe the "I love you" is too far but "good night" is just common courtesy.

In MSEA marraiges are taken kinda seriously... No one marries off his/her character off to a mule or something. Though MSEA players are sick... Most smegas say "F> horny, sexy, cashy and active gf" or "MMS session at cc20 rm20" MMS stands for matchmaking session. Lol. I've known my Maple wife for about 6 months now. And i keep in contact in real life thru text messages. So, yes, i guess i DO care.

LOL. I see some sick sick smega's on GMS as well...

Though we both quit and hardly ever APQ, my girlfriend and I are married, and I don't think either of us regret it. If I didn't have someone that I consider my actual girlfriend, I would have married two of my own characters to prevent stupid divorce drama. I personally think Maple marriage is a very solid investment of real money to gradually make a lot of mesos; it's one of the best deals in cash shop. So, marrying someone not completely reliable is not really a good idea.

So again, marriage is only an investment, like buying a piece of farmland for planting apples? Where's the farmer's neighbors?

I married a friend that I knew in real life. I wouldn't marry someone I couldn't trust to not break the marriage. And for me, maple marriage was the best investment of mesos used to get NX through the MTS. Zero real life money spent.

Yea. If I have a MS marriage, it'd be made through MTS as well cuz I refuse to spend NX. However, that doesn't really answer the original topic.