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Hey folks

First of all I have to put a little disclaimer in here: I know that some people
appreciate what I do and some people absolutely don't. If you are one of
the guys that don't appreciate it, I am sorry for insulting you with my
stuff and try not to annoy you again^^ I also saw, that newbies like me aren't allowed to post links so I needed to cheat a little bit... I hope that's ok...

I am a 25 yo researcher that has his research focus on eSports. ESports hasn't got
any great popularity in science yet but we (me and "my" research group)
are trying to change this.

For the current project we created a survey.

http: //unipark.de/uc/LfM/bf16/

It would be amazing if one or two of you would participate in this survey (do a good deed every day )

I know that this way to search for participants isn't the most popular one but no guts, no glory, so give it a try!

If you have any questions regarding the survey or if you are interested in the research project in general, feel free to ask

greetings,

Froop

[Azadina]

First question: What is there to research in esports, other than how many try to cheat?

[Revi]

First question: What is there to research in esports, other than how many try to cheat?

They need to start mandatory testing for caffeine levels to make sure they're not using that performance enhancing mountain dew.

On topic: Taking the test, almost done. I get that the amount of questions are important for a serious study, but it does feel very tedious to spend ages answering the same questions about Levi's over and over. Maybe if it was explained a bit why it was so relevant it would help.. Questions help make a solid data set, but so does volume of people answering it, and that number might suffer a lot with such a tedious questionnaire, unless people are really motivated to contribute. You know this a lot better than me ofc, just throwing it out there.

Done. Good luck

[TrumpIsPresident]

First question: What is there to research in esports, other than how many try to cheat?

There's a massive wealth of information to be gathered about the psychology of self and external validation as it pertains to PVP gaming.

Droves of gamers consider what they do in these video games to be a measure of their "personal skill" and nothing else.

The reality of most PVP gaming is that the balance (or imbalance) of its elements has more of an impact on victory than what any person can do (short of the obvious blatantly throwing a match, leaving, etc).

Yet rather than accept this simple fact of video gaming these people will insist, to the point of outright denial, that their "personal skill" alone was the relevant factor.

They essentially create a world of delusion (their denial of the realities of a programmed game) inside a world of fantasy (the game itself), this is the self validation side.

And in keeping with the general human condition of seeking the approval of others comes gaming's own take on the external validation model.

Where normal people seek validation from friends, family, peers, colleagues, etc, gamers seek validation from random internet strangers.

And even to warp the model further the validation they seek isn't positive but negative.

To one of these delusional people, having somebody point out the reality of imbalance to them is an invaluable opportunity to engaging in a nerd battle oh "qq u mad bro" caliber; ie the validation they seek.

The delusional person in question derives a thrill from this exchange and I bet if one of these people were hooked up to bio-monitors we would get the same brain-wave readings for their little nerd shit talk battles as we would for their fap sessions.

[Deleted]

Thx for participating

I know that the size of this survey is large but I had no other chance to shorten it (but that's a general problem with scientific surveys). Getting participants with such a huge survey is indeed very hard (I already gathered 15%... *yay*)


You wanna know about the research topic?

We try to check out so called "incongruent" ("non-fitting") commitment/engagement in eSports. Until today (almost) everyone that works, advertises, commits in eSports has a kind of natural fit to eSports (I don't wanna judge whether this is good or bad) but eSports events are becoming immense nowadays and so it 's only a matter of time until those events get commercialised more and more . If you take a look at other large sports events like Superbowl it seems that especially big companies don't care if their brand fits to the event as long as there are enough people watching. Whith some exceptions (e.g. Red Bull) this hasn't happen in eSports yet (again our research will not and can not answer the question whether this is a good progression or not).

We try to analyse the mechanics happening at incongruent commitments in eSports under the special aspect of "articulation" (if I have no fit to an event or the people can't see any fit, why not clearly tell them what the aim of my sponsorhip is?) and "construal level" (for construal level theory i suggest to shortly look up wikipedia ).

If you like more Information i can send you a pm

First question: What is there to research in esports, other than how many try to cheat?

There are a lot of scientific sections that benefit from eSports or gaming in general, e.g. Team-coordination, making decisions under pressure, some more medical stuff like eye-hand coordination etc... Also computer games and gamers actually helped scientists directly in their research process by solving complex biochemical molecular structure puzzles...

Khatib, F. / DiMaio, F. / Cooper, S. / Kazmierczyk, M. / Gilski, M. / Krzywda, S. / Zabranska, H. / Pichova, I. / Thompson, J. / Popović, Z. / Jaskolski, M. / Baker, D.(2011): „Crystal structure of a monomeric retroviral protease solved by protein fold-ing game players“ , in: Nature structural & molecular biology, vol. 18 (10), 1175-1177.

[THE Bigzoman]

They need to start mandatory testing for caffeine levels to make sure they're not using that performance enhancing mountain dew.

On topic: Taking the test, almost done. I get that the amount of questions are important for a serious study, but it does feel very tedious to spend ages answering the same questions about Levi's over and over. Maybe if it was explained a bit why it was so relevant it would help.. Questions help make a solid data set, but so does volume of people answering it, and that number might suffer a lot with such a tedious questionnaire, unless people are really motivated to contribute. You know this a lot better than me ofc, just throwing it out there.

Done. Good luck

It's bit bit deeper than that.

Take the FGC for example. Top tier players occasionally get accused of using Vivanz and/or adderral to up their game.

[Cairhiin]

You really should show how far you are into the survey. There are an insane amount of questions with no idea when it will ever be done. I am actually doing somewhat similar research at the moment regarding brand equity and sustainability. So I can understand the need to find respondents for long surveys!

[ItachiZaku]

On topic: Taking the test, almost done. I get that the amount of questions are important for a serious study, but it does feel very tedious to spend ages answering the same questions about Levi's over and over.

Are you saying that first multiple choice question will path me to ask additional questions for each of the items I select? If so, i'll just play ignorant and say i never heard of coke.

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Yeah, I forgott a %-strip on the bottom to show your progress. I need to look if I can change this retrospectively.

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Are you saying that first multiple choice question will path me to ask additional questions for each of the items I select? If so, i'll just play ignorant and say i never heard of coke.

Absolutely no! I just need to make sure that you know the brand I will use afterwards. If you never heard of (e.g.) coca cola you cant participate :/

[THE Bigzoman]

There's a massive wealth of information to be gathered about the psychology of self and external validation as it pertains to PVP gaming.

Droves of gamers consider what they do in these video games to be a measure of their "personal skill" and nothing else.

The reality of most PVP gaming is that the balance (or imbalance) of its elements has more of an impact on victory than what any person can do (short of the obvious blatantly throwing a match, leaving, etc).

Yet rather than accept this simple fact of video gaming these people will insist, to the point of outright denial, that their "personal skill" alone was the relevant factor.

They essentially create a world of delusion (their denial of the realities of a programmed game) inside a world of fantasy (the game itself), this is the self validation side.

And in keeping with the general human condition of seeking the approval of others comes gaming's own take on the external validation model.

Where normal people seek validation from friends, family, peers, colleagues, etc, gamers seek validation from random internet strangers.

And even to warp the model further the validation they seek isn't positive but negative.

To one of these delusional people, having somebody point out the reality of imbalance to them is an invaluable opportunity to engaging in a nerd battle oh "qq u mad bro" caliber; ie the validation they seek.

The delusional person in question derives a thrill from this exchange and I bet if one of these people were hooked up to bio-monitors we would get the same brain-wave readings for their little nerd shit talk battles as we would for their fap sessions.

Bitter about PVP in legion?

I used to feel the same, but then I started playing fighting games a lot more than I PVPed in WoW. SFV and MKX are a LOT
MORE skills based, although balanece between characters can be an issue at times.

Chun-Li/R.Mika in SFV and Jason Vorhees in MKX are so OP it's retarded, but it's adaptable and not impossible to win if you're on top of your game and have a sound strat.

[TrumpIsPresident]

Bitter about PVP in legion?

I used to feel the same, but then I started playing fighting games a lot more than I PVPed in WoW. SFV and MKX are a LOT
MORE skills based, although balanece between characters can be an issue at times.

Chun-Li/R.Mika in SFV and Jason Vorhees in MKX are so OP it's retarded, but it's adaptable and not impossible to win if you're on top of your game and have a sound strat.

Oh one can't be bitter about Wow PVP.

To do so would be akin to being bitter that the sun is hot.

[Allybeboba]

Many gamers need to take the Dunning-Kruger test.

[Deleted]

Unfortunately true...