Your Gaming Habits (Survey)

[BlaisAmon]

Hello everyone!

I'm finishing school by researching gaming habits for my diploma and could really use your help.

Please fill out the survey linked below — should take less than 5 minutes.
Your answers will remain anonymous and will be used for study/research only.
https://www.1ka.si/gaming

Sorreh for teh spam and happy gaming!


Mods: I've looked for rules on posting links to surveys but couldn't find much. If this is against the rules here please delete my post, and accept my sincere apologies.

 

[Minato]

People have posted here in the past with surveys used for a school project. I'm okay with it.

Just took the survey, hope you get enough people to help out!

 

[BlaisAmon]

Thanks, appreciated!

 

[Synnett]

Very well done this Survey, I enjoyed it.

Congratz man!

 

[FalKoopa]

That was a surprisingly deep survey. Nice.

I'll spread it around a bit.

 

[TK8305]

Epic survey! Needs to be more of these! xD

 

[Ryu_Ken]

I really enjoyed doing this survey. Felt like it took no time at all.

 

[RamOne]

This survey wasn't anything like I expected at all. Good job.

 

[Fox who?]

I like it! Made me think about my life, and how I spend way too much time gaming

 

[Opossum]

Took the survey! Hope you get a lot of good responses.

 

[~Skelly~]

Pretty good survey. Hope my input helped.

 

[IntriguedGamer]

Really liked the survey although I was confused about a couple questions. All in all though it was a very detailed survey!!!

 

[Spak]

Cool survey! Could you share the results with us when you're done collecting data?

 

[KingofPhantoms]

Just went through it myself. It goes a lot more in-depth than I expected it too, delving into how gaming can affect one's daily life among other things. Nice work!

Cool survey! Could you share the results with us when you're done collecting data?

I second this.

 

[BlaisAmon]

Could you share the results with us when you're done collecting data?

Absolutely, I'll be back with a couple of stats once the survey closes.

Many thanks to everyone who participated so far!

 

[BlaisAmon]

Good news everyone, I got some numbers for you, just as promised.

I'm doing this in 2 steps: revealing some demographic stats today (which shouldn't influence any following participats) and leave the survey open for another day or two, in case I can get a couple of more participats out of it. The rest of the numbers will follow after.

About 20 english-speaking forums were included, mainly gaming oriented.
N is currently at nearly 400. (I expected to get more participants tbh, but yeah, surveys aren't the most popular thing ever, let's not kid ourselves here.)
The M to F ratio is 9 to 1.
So, Joe Average has been playing games for at least 16 years and gets his games on for about 3.5 hours per day. Dude most likely lives in suburbia, maybe in the city, somewhere in America or Europe. Joe likes playing PC games the most, with some console & mobile gaming on the side. Whether Joe likes long walks on the beach wasn't included in the survey. ; )

Cheers to everyone who participated and/or helped out, some of you really made this spamming journey less sucky

 

[BlaisAmon]

The survey is now closed. Here's a couple of numbers I promised for all you geeks The numerus did not increase much.

Interest shown (average) (1-5)
Adventure 3.6
Casual 2.5
Fighting 2.4
Platformer 2.6
Puzzle 2.6
Racing 2.2
RPG 4.0
Shooter 3.1
Simulation 3.0
Sports 1.9
Strategy 3.9

Newer or older games played
Mostly newer 13%
Equal 68%
Mostly older 19%

Top 3 importance of multiplayer mechanisms (average) (1-6):
3. Competitive 3.1
2. Co-op 3.2
1. Free mode 3.6 (interesting)

I'm nowhere with the statements yet, because those need to be treated still, as they are indicators (attributes) rather than variables.
Playing games can cheer me up on a bad day - applies to the most
I feel nervous if I am not able to play any digital games - applies to the least

Feel free to discuss/interpret, I'll stay in touch if possible.

I still got so much to do, keep your fingers crossed

 

[LeifEriksson]

The survey is now closed. Here's a couple of numbers I promised for all you geeks The numerus did not increase much.

Interest shown (average) (1-5)
Adventure 3.6
Casual 2.5
Fighting 2.4
Platformer 2.6
Puzzle 2.6
Racing 2.2
RPG 4.0
Shooter 3.1
Simulation 3.0
Sports 1.9
Strategy 3.9

Newer or older games played
Mostly newer 13%
Equal 68%
Mostly older 19%

Top 3 importance of multiplayer mechanisms (average) (1-6):
3. Competitive 3.1
2. Co-op 3.2
1. Free mode 3.6 (interesting)

I'm nowhere with the statements yet, because those need to be treated still, as they are indicators (attributes) rather than variables.
Playing games can cheer me up on a bad day - applies to the most
I feel nervous if I am not able to play any digital games - applies to the least

Feel free to discuss/interpret, I'll stay in touch if possible.

I still got so much to do, keep your fingers crossed

Really interesting results, I had no idea that RPGs were the most popular with people.

 

[Fox who?]

I'm a little surprised that RPG and Strategy are the top two in the list, though seeing all the FE here, I shouldn't be too surprised. Still, seeing everything else so much lower is definitely unexpected to me.

I appreciate the survey, and the results are fascinating. Thanks for doing this!

 

[Spak]

I'm a little surprised that RPG and Strategy are the top two in the list, though seeing all the FE here, I shouldn't be too surprised. Still, seeing everything else so much lower is definitely unexpected to me.

I appreciate the survey, and the results are fascinating. Thanks for doing this!

20 different forums were included, so the sample would be fairly diverse.