Into the Wild UA Survey is up

[MechaTarrasque]

The survey can be found at: http://dnd.wizards.com/articles/unearthed-arcana/survey-wild

Last time, Unearthed Arcana wandered into the wilderness, with new ways to approach outdoor exploration. Now that you’ve had a chance to read and ponder these options from last time, we’re ready for you to give us your feedback about them in the following survey. This survey will remain open for about three weeks.
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The material in Unearthed Arcana is presented for playtesting and to spark your imagination. These game mechanics are in draft form, usable in your campaign but not refined by final game development and editing. They are not officially part of the game. For these reasons, material in this column is not legal in D&D Adventurers League events.

 

[BookBarbarian]

Thanks for posting this. I see so much back and forth on these forums about UA, I wonder how many of us are actually providing feedback in the surveys.

 

[Li Shenron]

Thanks for posting this. I see so much back and forth on these forums about UA, I wonder how many of us are actually providing feedback in the surveys.

I always do. What I usually wonder, is how much it's worth. If the feedback is small, it's not representative. If the feedback is huge, it's unlikely they'll have the capacity to process the open answers, so it might end they are just collecting non-descript votes averages and missing all the constructive opinions.

 

[MonkeezOnFire]

I always do. What I usually wonder, is how much it's worth. If the feedback is small, it's not representative. If the feedback is huge, it's unlikely they'll have the capacity to process the open answers, so it might end they are just collecting non-descript votes averages and missing all the constructive opinions.

I'm not sure how WotC handles their surveys, but I do know that large surveys with free form text will often perform analysis by looking at the frequency of certain words or phrases. They can also have the responses to the multiple choice questions so they can see how many people mentioned X that reported that they were unsatisfied with X. I'm sure they read some sample at least, but you are correct that once the number of responses reaches a certain point it becomes unfeasible to read them all.

 

[5ekyu]

I always do. What I usually wonder, is how much it's worth. If the feedback is small, it's not representative. If the feedback is huge, it's unlikely they'll have the capacity to process the open answers, so it might end they are just collecting non-descript votes averages and missing all the constructive opinions.

Well, one thing is that if the feedback is small or large, they get an idea as to how much the material matters to folks.

They likely know by now how the "representative" vs "selective" sampling goes and can use this in comparison with other surveys.