I want your opinions on video games. For science!

[Gav391]

Hey all,

I've made a survey that tells you what type of gamer personality you are. Are you an Immersion Engineer, or an Escape Artist? Do you battle with real people or seclude to the shadows in a world of your own making?

The reason why I made it is to gather research on people's gaming behaviours. This study for my masters thesis at The University of Sydney. Now as a gamer myself (WoW Heroic Tomb of Sargaras Raider), I feel like I have a good grasp of the gaming community, but as with all things, you need to do the research to confirm/disconfirm these assumptions.

The survey itself is looking to explore information about:
• Different aspects of your personality
• What video games you play
• How much you play by yourself and with other people
• The impacts of your video game use on your daily life

You can find a link to the survey and more information here (you might need to disable adblocker):
https://sydneypsy.qualtrics.com/jfe/for ... LKWzw4yvBz

So let me know what you think. Do you think I guessed right? What did I miss?

One more thing. A survey like this is limited, and doesn't give people a voice to add what they want to say. I really encourage open opinions about the video game community and maybe how the news and public have a negative view of video games. Whenever I present, I add the personal messages people have sent me to encourage other researchers to remember that we are people too, not just numbers. Tell me what you think and let me know if I can share your comments in my presentations.

Thank you,
Gavin

[redglasses]

Dude, I'm defiantly going to do this survey, just not right now LOL
Its 11pm right now, so tomorrow I will do this.
I would love to see your final presentation on this topic if you wouldn't mind sharing it with us. I love this, and I like the fact that your trying to change the media's perspective on the topic of video games, because as of right now its rather negative.
I have alot more to say about this, but cant share right now, because its 11pm LOL.

[Smith Modding]

I'm about to start the survey, for the name of science!
EDIT- did it. I gotta say, that's a cool survey, good luck with your studies

[Lisertan]

That moment when they ask you how many hours you've spend gaming the last two weeks and you calculate and end up with around 90 ..... then they ask you how many hours to play on average per week and you calculate again and it's about 50 .... and I'm not even taking the office hours into consideration...

... I need help....

.. nah I don't. I love it

[masterplan]

I almost clicked it, but then I noticed that this is Gav391 one and only post on this forum.

[Lisertan]

I don't mind. I guess he is looking for several gaming communities and posts it everywhere, so why not

[Smith Modding]

Trust me, if my parents didn't lock my gaming time as much has they do (about an hour or an hour and a half a day) I would play a loooot more

[FordFarmer97]

Oh boy! Heck I play 2-3 hours daily. After school if I have no homework.

[Smith Modding]

Yeah... i get home at about 3:30 ish and have to get off at between 5 and 5:30. And I have homework a lot so that gets cut into a lot

[FordFarmer97]

If I was on PC I'd never get off!

[Smith Modding]

Let's just say I have enough fear of my parents to do what they say but they do let me play on school breaks (like today and tomorrow) and on weekends

[Lisertan]

I usually come home at 7 pm and play till 1am ... on weekends it's usually at least one full day

Best pard? When I'm in the office I talk about games... every day....

[FordFarmer97]

^^ Oh cool! If it's dry outside, (as in dry enough to bushog) my dad'll make me get outside and bushog. It's pretty fun though

[Smith Modding]

My dad has a zero turn mower that he uses to mow the yard, and I'm learning to use it, it's really fun. But lately he's been in a rush to mow since we've been busy with stuff so I haven't gotten the chance to do it

[FordFarmer97]

We have one of those at the co-op. I use it whenever I'm there. We also have an old Kubota tractor they used to use