Originally Posted by Flaropri
I've posted quite a bit on this topic in the past, so I'll just put in a few thoughts that came up as a result of the survey.
1. Is this linked into the official forums? In any event, I as a general rule dislike these types of surveys. While more in-depth than polls posted on say, CNN's website, it still has the problems of being specific to the people on the website, who are interested enough to take it, etc.
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It's been posted on reddit, by now the responses hold more non-PS1 than PS1 players, so the sample pool is pretty diverse. It's linked in those forums somewhere, but not explicitly in a separate thread... it'd prolly get canned then.
It's also something that people could theoretically do multiple times if they wanted to weight it.
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IP locked it. It's possible to bypass of course, but really, it's just a poll.
Essentially, there's no way to say if the results are actually representative of the full demographic.
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That's never the case though, it's unfortunate but you can't control these populations. ^_^ *cough*zerg*cough*
That said, it is put together well enough, and for a general feel it would be interesting to see the results after a good few hundred votes (at a minimum) and I did it myself to contribute. The poll is slightly slanted, but not appreciably so, it's mostly well put together, except perhaps the first question which has such a short list.
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Ta. I tried to cover as much of the arguments as possible. To be fair, the pro-solo side simply has less arguments, though they do make the most claims about what populations want (typically I've found they claim it's what they want themselves though...). I've seen no evidence in the polls sofar that suggest people today are as anti-social, individual gamers in a MMO as some make them out to be.
I put the survey together in about 2,5 hours.
Should have tested, expanded it and refined a bit more if it would have been truly scientific. Alas, I have a real life graduation study as well, so I just went with the most obvious. xD
Interestingly though, there's hardly any that claim to come from CoD. I'd expected that fraction to be larger. Chances are people play CoD anyway, but consider that a very casual game compared to whatever they dubbed their "main" game. Do note the high degree of RTS and RPG players.
Anyway, interesting poll, as I said, I'd be very interested in seeing the results with an appreciable amount of entries.
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Currently have around 140 respondents. Going to wait for around 200 till I check the results again. Then we can see how big the differences are with a small and big pool too.