Changeover poll

[Treebore]

And I really prefer this option when posting my own polls. I like to know who is voting, and what. Transparent EN World Poster FTW.

In a few years, I will have detailed profiles on all EN World posters, and can sell them to WotC and Paizo... I'll get rich! *insert evil, manical laughter here*

This poll already has enough votes to be a "valid" poll. Just as valid as many of the polls, with their +/- 3% error you see on the news stations.

Polling ENWorlders/internet users is just as valid as polling "Registered Voters".

Arguments can definitely be made about the polls validity, but anyone who understand "statistics" knows that any such poll, or set of statistical data, can be argued. Not to mention manipulated.

Still, if this poll were able to be followed up on with a "real world" poll, I bet it would be within 10% of that poll. The only question I have, is in which direction would that 10% be? I would suspect it would favor WOTC, but I am not so sure as to be surprised if it favored older/other editions.

So I don't think I would give this poll +/- 3% accuracy, but I bet it has +/- 10% accuracy.

 

[Greg K]

Well, earlier in this thread, I mentioned that none of the dnd players I knew or their groups were playing 4e. That has changed.

One of my friends just moved to Buena Park to be close to her boyfriend. Currently, his group is trying 4e. She played it for the first time last week (the group had already been playing the system). Her statement was that she prefers 3e and would prefer to be playing 3e. However, she is glad to already have an rpg to play and her boyfriend is one of the best DMs she has had (admitting her bias).

As for her boyfriend, he is not sure they are going to stay with 4e. He has some issues with it. I didn't get to talk with him long enough to find out exactly what his issues were other than not being keen on how daily items work). His big thing about 4e is that fighters have interesting things to do, but after very brief chat, he will also be checking out the Book of Iron Might for 3e (he liked the idea of the BOIM mechanics and the ability to describe a maneuver and, with the cheat sheet, quickly build the maneuver or use sample maneuvers).

 

[RFisher]

Still, if this poll were able to be followed up on with a "real world" poll, I bet it would be within 10% of that poll. The only question I have, is in which direction would that 10% be? I would suspect it would favor WOTC, but I am not so sure as to be surprised if it favored older/other editions.

Probably depends upon how you find your sample. If you find it through some method connected with retail, then I’d bet it would be in favor of Wizards too.

If you found someway to actually find a representative sample of all RPG gamers, it might well go the other way.

But I only play at statistics.

 

[Edena_of_Neith]

The Changeover Poll is now closed.

With close to 1,000 votes, as of August 22nd, 2008, the final results are:

Changeover: 37%
Partial Changeover: 14%
No Changover: 49%

with 22% attempting 4E, and giving it up.

 

[DaveMage]

with 22% attempting 4E, and giving it up.

Which means, for those that responded to this poll, around 30% of those that tried 4e chose not to make it their game of choice.

So they are (at least somewhat) retaining 50-70% of those that try it, which isn't too shabby.

 

[Dragon Snack]

And who says WOTC did?

I don't know what's funnier, the fact that you quoted me when my sig had big bold letters in it saying I was at Gen Con (and therefor it was a good guess I wouldn't be back for at least 4-5 days to reply to it) or that 5 of your 159 posts are in this thread trying to discredit it...

 

[cangrejoide]

I don't know what's funnier, the fact that you quoted me when my sig had big bold letters in it saying I was at Gen Con (and therefor it was a good guess I wouldn't be back for at least 4-5 days to reply to it) or that 5 of your 159 posts are in this thread trying to discredit it...

I don't know what's funnier, the fact that you would think I care enough about you that I would try to post when you had no chance of replying or that you actually went and search all my posts to somehow give credit to your tinfoil conspiracy...

 

[ProfessorCirno]

Could you two stop? Not because it's disruptive or I dislike your arguments, but because my god no two people with the same avatar should fight against each other like that. It's confusing, to say the least.

 

[cangrejoide]

Could you two stop? Not because it's disruptive or I dislike your arguments, but because my god no two people with the same avatar should fight against each other like that. It's confusing, to say the least.

Well he started it!

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

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