Guild Wars 2

Hello Guild Wars 2 fans,
 
I am a PhD student at the University of California, Irvine in the Informatics department.  Informatics, loosely, is studying aspects of living, working, and building in digital worlds.  I’m currently looking for Guild Wars 2 players to participate in a short (between 15 – 30 minutes) survey regarding their main Guild Wars 2 character.  The goal of the study is to understand character progression through the in-game personality feature.
 
If you have any questions, feel free to post them here. I will be checking in my down-time to answer any concerns/inquiries people might have. Otherwise…if you have the time, here’s the survey!
 
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/UCIINF261GW2
 
NOTE: You do NOT have to be level 80 to participate.

Thanks to anyone who can participate! Also, if you have friends who play, feel free to pass the link on to them as well.

~Gazelle

EDIT: FAQ

“This survey seems US centric. Are you only looking at players on NA servers?”

I had anticipated mostly US-based players, which is why the server list question only has the NA servers. I myself am US based, hence the census terms [this prevents any messy legal issues with referring to certain races as X, Y, or Z].
However, I don’t discourage input from anyone! If I do get more EU players, I can shift my analysis with that in mind. I just apologize that it’s not as EU friendly as NA friendly.

“How does Question 23’s ranking work?”

Question 23’s ranking is a simple 1-6 ranking system. 1 is best [i.e. what factored most into your character creation] and 6 is worst [i.e. what factored least].
The numbers in-between are just personal preference of what you considered when making your character.

I checked your survey and it seems it is rather US centric. Do you aim exclusively for US players?

Algreg.3629:

I checked your survey and it seems it is rather US centric. Do you aim exclusively for US players?

I had anticipated mostly US players, which is why the server list has the NA servers. I myself am US based, hence the census terms [this prevents any messy legal issues with referring to certain races as X, Y, or Z].

However, I don’t discourage input from anyone! If I do get more EU players, I can shift my analysis with that in mind. I just apologize that it’s not as EU friendly as NA friendly.

Yes it does seem that the survey it US centric.Im from EU.Soz

Gazelle.5027:

Algreg.3629:

I checked your survey and it seems it is rather US centric. Do you aim exclusively for US players?

I had anticipated mostly US players, which is why the server list has the NA servers. I myself am US based, hence the census terms [this prevents any messy legal issues with referring to certain races as X, Y, or Z].

However, I don’t discourage input from anyone! If I do get more EU players, I can shift my analysis with that in mind. I just apologize that it’s not as EU friendly as NA friendly.

no need to apologize, just didn´t want to corrupt your sample

Science is a myth, only god is real, and the spaghetti monster. And Zeus, Odin, Thor, Hades, Hermes, Ra, Osiris, Isis, Heliopolis, Baal, Ba Xian, Dagon, Eos, Maia, etc.

Joshmans.8937:

Science is a myth, only god is real, and the spaghetti monster. And Zeus, Odin, Thor, Hades, Hermes, Ra, Osiris, Isis, Heliopolis, Baal, Ba Xian, Dagon, Eos, Maia, etc.

Truth. Lmao

Edit: did your survey, but I think the first question I chose myself as female, thought that was referring to my character but got asked my characters gender later down the survey so meh.. I am male.

you might also want to clarify your scales, I have no idea how to use your numerical rankings.

Algreg.3629:

you might also want to clarify your scales, I have no idea how to use your numerical rankings.

Algreg, can you specify for which question you’re referring to?

So… you’re from the Durmand Priory eh? NERD!!!!

VIGIL 4 LIFE

:P

question 23 and possibly others, didn´t progress beyond that.

Algreg.3629:

question 23 and possibly others, didn´t progress beyond that.

Question 23’s ranking is a simple 1-6 ranking system. 1 is best [i.e. what factored most into your character creation] and 6 is worst [i.e. what factored least].

the numbers in-between are just personal preference of what you considered when making your character.

does this help?

it does help and I suspected a “school gradish” system (though was a bit confused as I rather expected an american style alphabetical grading), but wasn´t sure.

Bruno Sardine.2907:

So… you’re from the Durmand Priory eh? NERD!!!!

VIGIL 4 LIFE

:P

b-but…the research!

i filled out the survey

Done! I love these things.

Good luck w/ the project. Remember to bring cookies to your stats professor. I believe he really likes ’em.

That ranking question threw me off too, wasn’t sure if 6 was most or least on the 1-6 scale.

mulch.2586:

Good luck w/ the project. Remember to bring cookies to your stats professor. I believe he really likes ’em.

That ranking question threw me off too, wasn’t sure if 6 was most or least on the 1-6 scale.

Thanks for the input! I’ve specified in the question itself how the ranking should be done to prevent any further confusion.

Took the surveeeeeyyyyyyyyy

Oh yeah, I filled this out. Slipped my mind due to finally getting a run for AC, but I did this. =]

Filled out for you – I felt inclined to do it for a fellow Southern Californian! I’m about 40 miles north of Los Angeles in Ventura County and went to college at UCLA. Good luck with your project!

Filled this out a moment ago, good luck on your research.

Gawna.6519:

Filled out for you – I felt inclined to do it for a fellow Southern Californian! I’m about 40 miles north of Los Angeles in Ventura County and went to college at UCLA. Good luck with your project!

Odd seeing another (805) person here, it’s actually 55 miles north of LA but close enough. lol

You may want to offer some sort of compensation or prize to be raffled off between all participants. You’ll probably get more respondents if you offer an incentive for folks to spend their time other than just your thanks. Just a suggestion of course.

Humpink.2306:

You may want to offer some sort of compensation or prize to be raffled off between all participants. You’ll probably get more respondents if you offer an incentive for folks to spend their time other than just your thanks. Just a suggestion of course.

It was a consideration. However, incentives are usually for longer-lasting projects [e.g. >1 hour]. So far it seems the survey I have provided is not taking most users longer than 15 minutes for a meaty response, though times get longer as they provide more text-based information. In my experience as a student researcher [especially looking at an area like gaming], many participants are just happy to have their voice heard and be able to support gaming research.

I would also like to thank the 957 players who have completed the survey so far. You guys rock!

Linkage.3640:

Odd seeing another (805) person here, it’s actually 55 miles north of LA but close enough. lol

I’m in Thousand Oaks, so a little closer than, say, Ventura. I work in Camarillo which is a little further. According to Google, TO is 42.95 miles from LA.

Agreed that it’s always strange to find locals in an MMO. It’s easy to forget there’s real people behind these screen names!

I saw you had a data mishap, just thought I would bump this for you so the community can help you recover.

Pallidus