Survey - A World of Warcraft study of Network Services and User Attitude

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Hi everyone,

I am a postgraduate student in England and for my final piece of academic work for my degree, I have decided to write about my greatest passion - online gaming - and more specifically WoW. As part of my research, I have constructed a survey which aims to ultimately assess the value (social and financial) of the enormous network market which has been created and developed in parallel to the game over the last 7 years. By network market, I mean the tens of hundreds of websites out there which have been created by individuals and/or companies from and all over the world which serve various purposes (one of which is the awesome MMO-Champion). Some of these websites aim to serve the needs of many (and so provide generic information/services) whereas other websites focus on specific areas or aspects of the game (and so provide more specialised information/services). The game's complex and multi functional nature is the reason WHY this network of complementary services and websites is so large and has been so successful.

I need your help to make this study as accurate as possible and so I kindly request you take a moment to participate in the following survey.
When participating, please keep in mind that this survey is ENTIRELY ANONYMOUS and is a SERIOUS piece of academic work and so I urge you to be sincere in your contribution.

The survey is made up of 15 multiple choice question and should not take more than 5 minutes.

You can find the survey here:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/...WDUwR3ZHYmc6MA

If you have any questions, please feel free to comment below or send me a PM and I will do my best to get back to you as soon as possible.


I THANK YOU ALL FOR TAKING THE TIME TO READ THIS AND GREATLY APPRECIATE YOUR COOPERATION

[gunchix]

Done, Good luck with the research.

[Lothaeryn]

I no longer play WoW atm, but I answered your survey to my best ability with what I remember doing while playing (used WoWhead/WoWwiki alot, thats for sure).

Definitely would like to see your research when its done.

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@gunchix @Lothaeryn - Thank you.

I'll try and post the research data once compiled.

[zyx]

And done! Best of luck with it and I'm looking forward to seeing the end data.

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I no longer play WoW atm, but I answered your survey to my best ability with what I remember doing while playing (used WoWhead/WoWwiki alot, thats for sure).

Definitely would like to see your research when its done.

Same here. Hope it's ok. Also, it was much shorter then 10 min OP.

[Raldazzar]

Done to the best of my ability!

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@zyx @Arnorei @Raldazzar - Thank you guys.

@Arnorei - I think you're right about the time required to complete the survey, though considering not everyone is a fluent English speaker and the description is slightly long, thought being generous was the way to go. Hopefully, people will read your post and feel even more compelled to participate =]

[Deleted]

Done. Good luck with results

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@memphix - Thanks

[jk5834]

Done. Good luck to you my friend.

[Faenskap]

Done, good luck

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@jk5834 @Faenskap - Thank you.

38 Participants already. Absolutely delighted. Thank you ALL.

[tielknight]

Also done, hope it helps and Will we be able to see the results when you are finished?

[kleinlax21]

Done & good luck on your work

[BeastmasterGuardian]

Finished. I was glad to see this taken into a more discrete location. Good luck.

[Flatspriest]

Done, but you might want to not list different sites in the survey that violate the rules for advertising especially for illegal services and the such.

[xilla]

Done mate, hope it helped

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@tielknight @kleinlax21 @BeastmasterGuardian @Flatspriest @xilla - Thank you so much.

@BeastmasterGuardian - Glad to see you're on-board this time

@tielknight - I don't see why not.

@Flatspriest - Noted. thanks

[Extinguished]

Done.

And for those interested it takes much less than 10 minutes. So go ahead and do it.