Hey MMO Fans — Feel Like Answering Some Questions?

17 responses to “Hey MMO Fans — Feel Like Answering Some Questions?”

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   Bear of the boy

   February 21, 2012 at 9:39 am

   The good-participant role in which the participant attempts to discern the experimenter’s hypotheses and to confirm them.[3]
   The negative-participant role (also known as the screw-you effect[4]) in which the participant attempts to discern the experimenter’s hypotheses, but only in order to destroy the credibility of the study.
   The faithful-participant role in which the participant follows the instructions given by the experimenter to the letter.
   The apprehensive-participant role in which the participant is so concerned about how the experimenter might evaluate the responses that the participant behaves in a socially desirable way.

   Everyone be a faithful participant please. All others suck balls.

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   InformedGamer

   February 21, 2012 at 9:49 am

   What is your current relationship status?

   Single
   Separated
   Engaged
   Married
   Open Relationship
   Defacto (living with partner, unmarried)

   Really? There’s no “I have a partner who I don’t live with, but we are not in an open relationship”? They do mean “We have sex with whoever we please” open relationship right?!

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   1. 

      Seegrey

      February 21, 2012 at 9:54 am

      Mmo players don’t have girlfriends, remember?

      Already seeing major bias holes..

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   2. 

      ChunLi

      February 21, 2012 at 9:55 am

      ‘An open relationship is an interpersonal relationship in which the parties want to be together but agree to a form of a non-monogamous relationship.’ – There you go.

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      Sam

      February 21, 2012 at 10:07 am

      I thought this too…. Mind you I live with someone, but really… that’s a massive oversight, I was hoping they’d have an advice part at the end, I also wanted to add in ‘Why only current MMO players?’ As someone who used to play WoW for the max time choices on all those options I feel I could have contributed that way, instead I had to answer the reason I play Star Wars 1-4 hours a week, which is pretty much down to something to do with my mate sometimes.

      Either way, done and done, as a Psychology major I felt somewhat obligied because I know what a bitch research can be.

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         ChunLi

         February 21, 2012 at 10:17 am

         Perhaps they wanted to limit ambiguity by providing concrete choices. Plus, if they explained the finer details of the study no doubt there would be some that would read the explanation first and then skew the results. See Bear of the Boy’s post above.

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            Sam

            February 21, 2012 at 10:34 am

            Is this only in relation to my second issue?
            Because having a partner you don’t live with encompasses a pretty massive part of the population… eg. all my friends that aren’t single, I’m the only person I know that actually lives with a partner. It’s a pretty big oversight in a university level study, and if anything it shows experimenter bias rather than limiting participant bias.

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   4. 

      Leigh Klaver

      February 21, 2012 at 5:24 pm

      Informed Gamer – Thanks for spotting that, unfortunately it was an oversight and will be taken into account when dissecting the results. That said, to change anything in the survey would mean having to delete all responses and go through a further ethics process. In any case this particular question is demographic and isn’t a central factor to the research question, but you’re correct in your statements and it’s a shame that it wasn’t picked up during testing.

      Sam – Don’t worry, we definitely won’t be looking to paint MMO players or gamers in either a negative or positive light, but rather examine player types and enjoyment. Thanks for participating and your honesty, I shall add a text field at the end of future surveys so that participants can provide comments.

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3. 

   oldtimer

   February 21, 2012 at 9:50 am

   Hmmmmm, these things invariably end up getting used for evil…

   Besides, he isn’t even offering a free special companion pet or achievement!
   He REALLY does not get mmo players 😀

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   1. 

      Sam

      February 21, 2012 at 11:08 am

      Hahahha love it

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   2. 

      Glib

      February 21, 2012 at 12:02 pm

      It’s a little murloc following you around with a clipboard..

      You mean, you didn’t get one?

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         ChunLi

         February 21, 2012 at 12:30 pm

         Ok, now I seriously want a Murloc with a clipboard as a companion.

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4. 

   DG

   February 21, 2012 at 9:59 am

   Done and done, and i mean done 😉

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5. 

   Stephen

   February 21, 2012 at 10:09 am

   Write down three adjectives (descriptive words) that you feel best describe you?

   Chaotic

   Evil

   Renegade

   Be prepared for a news article in the future regarding the possible terrorist link with MMO Gamers

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6. 

   DogMan

   February 21, 2012 at 5:34 pm

   It felt like I was giivng a lot of misleading answers there. Yeah, I spend 30+ hours a week online, but I spend a lot of that time on the internet at work. I’ve literally never played for my average session time, because I’m either just playing around 0-30 minutes, I’m raiding 2-4 hours, or I’m AFK all day and periodically checking to see if anything is happening.
   The stuff about how I ‘feel’ before, during and after playing MMORPGs is just too complicated to answer. I log in to raid on a schedule not an impulse. If I have a terrible day I’ll log in feeling bad, then either drag it in with me or forget about it and relax depending on how the raid goes. I might log off feeling great after a terrible day or terrible after a great day.

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7. 

   RobbyM

   February 22, 2012 at 3:04 pm

   interesting – Consent forms says I will not be asked for personal information – yet I am asked to provide my email address during the survey.

   sounds a tad dogdy to me.

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      Leigh Klaver

      February 22, 2012 at 4:05 pm

      RobbyM – It only asks you for your email address if you wish to save your responses and come back to them at a later date. Incidentally if you choose to provide this email information (which you most certainly don’t have to do) rest assured it is not stored/retained and thus is not able to be seen/accessed by anyone.

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