Wizards - online survey problems

[Blue_Kryptonite]

I'm pretty sure I'm out of it, since as a three-decade gamer I'd probably skew the results. But, notice the prizes involve minatures. My comment:

Dungeons & Dragons is my primary hobby. I play with my wife and sons (ages 18 and 14). We've played together for 20 years, with the boys being allowed to join as they respectively turned 8 years old. With the exception of emphasis on miniatures/counters/etc., which we have never used, each edition has been a vast improvement on the last.

 

[Scribble]

I took it. As far as polls is concerned, I thought it was just about worthless. I take polls all the time. I'm on a mailing list to do polls. I see all kinds of polls. I've even done market research in RL and gotten paid for it. So, I like to think I know what a good poll looks like. It's important to capture useful data.

I don't think it's really fair to say this though, without all of the information. I mean how can you say it's a bad way to ask the question when you don't know the reason they asked the question?

Since it's an "advisory panel" they're trying to fill, maybe instead of just a random selection of people from the various age groups they wanted a set number of each age within each age group.. IE 10 27 year olds, 10 13 year olds.. and so on.

For that matter if you're not selected for the group, it might just be not because you're not what they're looking for, but that they've already got enough people who fit your category...

 

[banks!]

D&D survey

I'm taking market research in university at the moment and I have to say I can't see what valid information they will get from this survey other than age and country of people who play D&D.

Some one spoke of a review board coming from this survey? What is that about?

 

[Scribble]

I'm taking market research in university at the moment and I have to say I can't see what valid information they will get from this survey other than age and country of people who play D&D.

See that's just it, I don't think they're trying to aquire any information on this one. They've already got plenty of demographics stuff. What they seem to be trying to do is categorize people in order to determine if they need anymore of that class on their panel.

The "panel" is basically a bunch of people who will be sent more surveys about upcoming products.

 

[Yeoman]

I got a pretty detailed survey, so I'm assuming that I fell into their "need more information from" demographic. Nifty survey though.

 

[mythusmage]

I suspect who got to answer the more detailed survey was determined randomly. I should hope they didn't decide to discriminate against old bogarts like me.

 

[MerricB]

Charles Ryan has been very helpful in clearing up the survey mysteries...

Was it the intention of the survey to only be open to citizens of the US?

In a word, yes.

We'd love to gather feedback from players all over the world--we're certainly aware that lots of people outside the U.S. play D&D! Unfortunately, different countries place different restrictions on the gathering of data over the internet, and it's virtually impossible for us to comply with all of them. The only practical solution is for us to gather data from U.S. residents only.

The sweepstakes is also only open to U.S. residents. We've had the errors in that section of the survey fixed so that it isn't offered to non-U.S. residents.

I apologize to those of you outside the U.S. who would like to participate in the survey and/or the sweepstakes. Unfortunately, there's just no way we can open it up outside of the U.S.

Cheers!

 

[Saeviomagy]

He might want to know that the sweepstakes are still being offered to australians as of five minutes ago. And frankly I'll be annoyed if I'm disqualified on the basis of being non-us, when nothing in the survey or sweepstakes offering suggested that was a problem.

Hell - us aussies are allowed to use off-shore internet casinos (but not australian ones... bizarre), so I fail to see how a sweepstakes could be a problem.

Oh, IANAL

 

[ivocaliban]

I took the poll. My comments pertained mostly to the fact that I generally find each incarnation of D&D better than the last. I also mentioned the ups and downs in the editing department and the fact that Greyhawk deserves an expanded hardcover considering it exists in a watered down fashion in every D&D book outside of Forgotten Realms and Eberron. Living Greyhawk doesn't do much to tie those together, though it's a decent primer on it's own. I just think it's a bit odd that books like Complete Divine are in many ways sourcebooks for a campaign setting that doesn't exist in any comprehensive form.

In other words, I wasted about ten minutes of my life.

 

[buzz]

Anyone having problems submitting the survey? Every time I submitted an answer, my browser would hang until I stopped and refreshed.

Anyway, I was asked a whole bunch o' questions, so I guess I'm special.