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<blockquote data-quote="Karak" data-source="post: 6025180" data-attributes="member: 6700170"><p>Admittedly I only found out in the last couple years while working on my KickStarter and trying to identify the "rift" as we began to call it. </p><p>For us it really started to all begin to make sense. Some people who bridged the gap don't pick up that mindset, but for many newcomers, it is all they know and their expectation of fun is whatever a screen, or person tells them.</p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong>For example these are some other numbers I got while having people make characters and play test AfterEarth.</strong></p><p></p><p>The number of people making a character that asked "What are the colors I can pick for my clothes or another very basic question such as what hairstyle can I have?" = 42</p><p>The number of them that identified video-gaming as their <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/usertag.php?do=list&action=hash&hash=1" target="_blank">#1</a> source of entertainment. = 39</p><p></p><p>The number of people play-testing that did not ask that question. = 197</p><p>The percentage of those players that referenced role-playing as their <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/usertag.php?do=list&action=hash&hash=1" target="_blank">#1</a> source of entertainment. = 100%</p><p></p><p></p><p>Obviously that is not a perfect sample. But when discussing why someone asked such a basic question we received response like.</p><p></p><p>"Oh I just thought it was primary colors for clothes." 43% of responders</p><p>"I thought I had to pick from a list of hair-types." 19% of responders</p><p>"Referenced a video-game choice menu directly." <strong>All other responses</strong>.</p><p></p><p>Sort of damning.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Karak, post: 6025180, member: 6700170"] Admittedly I only found out in the last couple years while working on my KickStarter and trying to identify the "rift" as we began to call it. For us it really started to all begin to make sense. Some people who bridged the gap don't pick up that mindset, but for many newcomers, it is all they know and their expectation of fun is whatever a screen, or person tells them. [B] For example these are some other numbers I got while having people make characters and play test AfterEarth.[/B] The number of people making a character that asked "What are the colors I can pick for my clothes or another very basic question such as what hairstyle can I have?" = 42 The number of them that identified video-gaming as their [URL="http://www.enworld.org/forum/usertag.php?do=list&action=hash&hash=1"]#1[/URL] source of entertainment. = 39 The number of people play-testing that did not ask that question. = 197 The percentage of those players that referenced role-playing as their [URL="http://www.enworld.org/forum/usertag.php?do=list&action=hash&hash=1"]#1[/URL] source of entertainment. = 100% Obviously that is not a perfect sample. But when discussing why someone asked such a basic question we received response like. "Oh I just thought it was primary colors for clothes." 43% of responders "I thought I had to pick from a list of hair-types." 19% of responders "Referenced a video-game choice menu directly." [B]All other responses[/B]. Sort of damning. [/QUOTE]
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