2D Game Marketing Survey Results Released, 200 completed surveys Options

[Rob_Riv]

The zip file shows how poor this survey was.

There are statements like "Male or Female, not really anything special. Now since most of the surveys were posted on
game developer websites, this question may be too biased." - What does this mean? How can it be biased? You're asking the survey to people on game development websites.

What it actually means is that the results cannot necessarily be generalised to women. In order to find out, you'd have to take the very few women's statistics and correlate them with the men's responses. Although the number of responses from women really is too low, it would give you some kind of indication of how similar the results are.

Some of the percentages shown are incorrect, as you can select more than one option. In those situations a percentage of participants (rather than responses) is obviously appropriate. For example...

"The glorious Mac vs Pc question appeared here. Windows Users came in 1st place with 75%
of the vote(190 votes), followed by Linux(17%), and then Mac."

Next, asking between "big commerical", "medium independent" and "small independent" game companies. It's just a horribly written question.

I mean, you point out the problems with what people want and don't want in games, but those points were obvious from the outset.

Overall, I don't understand the purpose in the survey, and I don't understand what knowledge we have gained from its results.

[theweirdn8]

I understand, many of the questions were flawed, this was my first survey. For the future I hope to make better surveys. Maybe you can proofread the questions for me next time.

I did learn a few things. Also, I think Question 18 may be valuable.

[Rob_Riv]

Maybe you can proofread the questions for me next time.

There's going to be a next time? I have no interest in helping out.

I did learn a few things. Also, I think Question 18 may be valuable.

You didn't analyse the data though, so it's not useful.

This post has been edited by Rob_Riv: Jun 18 2012, 05:59 AM

[theweirdn8]

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