D&D General WotC Asks What Makes YOU Play Dungeons and Dragons?

WotC has a new survey asking about what you want from D&D -- "Extra extra! The D&D team wants to know what makes YOU play Dungeons & Dragons! The open world? Character customization? Shared storytelling with friends? Iconic art? Take our survey and help shape the future of what we're working on at Wzards. Please share to help us spread the word and hear from more fans."

https://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/5231853/pas?sglocale=en

 

[RobJN]

I picked EN World before I noticed that WotC's own website was an option.

WotC's D&D website is crap for trying to find anything.

 

[Yaarel]

ENWorld is the best newssource for knowing the latest about D&D 5e. Way better than WotC!

Its been this way for years now. I remember vividly looking to ENWorld for the latest hints about the still unveiled 4e. Same for the playtesting for 5e. Now I look to ENWorld for the lastest about what indy publishers are doing for 5e.

ENWorld is reliable. And the forumers are knowledgeable too.

 

[Jay Verkuilen]

A lot of good questions in that survey. I suspect they’ll get some good feedback

It still has the problem of being heavily self-selected, as are internet surveys without some randomization.

 

[Jay Verkuilen]

WotC's D&D website is crap for trying to find anything.

Indeed, their web page is just buy-buy-buy and provides almost no reason to visit given how disorganized it is.

 

[Jay Verkuilen]

I had the same experience at age 34: I think the final block section accounted for 10%, and that was the last question.

I got 98%. Those percent completion indicators are dubious and I wouldn't take them too seriously (or indeed the whole survey).

 

[Mournblade94]

Yay! Someone else who put that in!

I listed Every one of them that I played. I think it was all of them. I even added the Dark Sun game but I can't remember its name only its approximate year

 

[Tony Vargas]

It still has the problem of being heavily self-selected, as are internet surveys without some randomization.

I suspect they'll get the kinds of results they're looking for, though.

 

[Hussar]

And, frankly, I doubt this is the sole source of market research they are doing.

Would be very, very cool to see the results of this though.

 

[Parmandur]

It still has the problem of being heavily self-selected, as are internet surveys without some randomization.

Well, they aren't necessarily trying to get accurate data to extrapolate on all 100% of D&D players here. The self-selection might be part of the point.

 

[Jay Verkuilen]

Well, they aren't necessarily trying to get accurate data to extrapolate on all 100% of D&D players here. The self-selection might be part of the point.

I find it hard to know what value uncontrolled self-selection would have, although it's fairly challenging to identify exactly what the population of D&D players is, given how rapidly it's been changing. Still, color me professionally skeptical of the value of a survey that doesn't have a clear sampling plan and relies on self-selection.

And, frankly, I doubt this is the sole source of market research they are doing.

Most likely not.

I suspect they'll get the kinds of results they're looking for, though.

Fishing for results to confirm one's preconceived notions is generally not a great idea, if that's what they're doing. I suppose this kind of survey might be used to generate ideas for more refined research and it's clearly being used for publicity.