Heroes help me with my dissertation thesis!


Aett_Thorn

 

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Hello and thanks for initial interest!

My name is Filip and I am a postgraduate student
who needs your help with dissertation thesis!

I am working on research that aims to explore community's perception of microtransaction system (paragon market transactions)

Microtransactions are a low financial value transactions,
majority of items sold in Paragon Market ingame store qualify as such.

But how can you help?

If You ever bought any amount of Paragon Points (or not but want to take part regardless) go to my questionnaire URL and complete every answer.

(shouldn't take more than 3 minutes of your time really)

http://kwiksurveys.com?u=cityofheroes

If you can (and want) please share it with your friends. The more responses the better!

Thank You Community!


 

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By RP, do you mean Paragon Points or something else?


 

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Done.

You might want to fix the available responses to question 14.


 

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Yes I did! thanks for pointing that out!


 

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Originally Posted by Doughboy View Post
Done.

You might want to fix the available responses to question 14.
Thanks
Taking ready responses form TF2 survey was not the best idea :P


 

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Done and done. That was a quick survey. Then again, the URL said it would be. Hope it's useful to you.


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Done-er-roo


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Done! Good luck with your thesis!


 

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Question 14 now mentions CO lol.

Eco


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Yeah, i could swear I changed that, sorry for that, If You could please answer the questionnaire one more time, that would be awesome.

Guess I shouldnt do them all on one day next time :S


 

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Originally Posted by sXerra View Post
Yeah, i could swear I changed that, sorry for that, If You could please answer the questionnaire one more time, that would be awesome.

Guess I shouldnt do them all on one day next time :S
Done. Again.


 

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Can I buy additional answers for some of the questions?


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Originally Posted by Aett_Thorn View Post
Can I buy additional answers for some of the questions?
Well played!


 

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You seriously need to clean up your text for spelling, grammar and punctuation. A survey is a pretty public affair where presentation matters, and yours is rife with very blatant errors. If English is not your first language, have someone else proof-read it for you, even someone here on the forums.

Beyond that, the survey seems pretty comprehensive, but you have a BIG problem in that it doesn't account for the VIP stipend at all. For instance, I've already spent almost all of 1950 Paragon Points (~$24) on the Market, but not a single one of those points has been paid for by purchase. They are all from my VIP subscription stipend and the original Freedom Launch subsidy for months subscribed prior.

Also, it seems like it's a little early to be asking how often we make microtransactions and give options like "Once every few months" when microtransactions in City of Heroes haven't been out more than... What, three weeks? Also, your options jump from "a few times a week" to "once a month" and there is no in-between option like "a few times a month" or "once a week." You're leaving out a rather large data bracket, which will lead to many people being funnelled into the two brackets around it, and that may not be wholly representative.

Still, I finished the survey and it did take around 3 minutes. I hope you get some useful data out of this.


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Hey there, thanks for the feedback.

I am using mostly uniform questionnaire for many other games and not only CoH, hence the other answers.

Grammar is an issue, but It will undergo proofreading before the submission. I am sorry If I offended you by submitting this questionnaire.


 

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Originally Posted by sXerra View Post
I am sorry If I offended you by submitting this questionnaire.
You didn't offend me, but I thought you may be looking for feedback on the survey itself. I don't make it a point to nit-pick people's typing in casual conversation or forum posts, but when it's something you'll be publicising to a large number of people, you really want it to be as presentable as possible.

If you want, I can go through the survey again and point out everything I spot.


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Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.

 

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Done.

As a side note, I do paid surveys occasionally, and it was written about on par with actual surveys for real companies, so I'm not sure about the nit-picking from others. The grammar was a bit wonky in places, but it was readable and not confusing.


 

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Done.

I also counted 'micro-transactions' as previous purchase of Booster Packs, not just the new Paragon Market. I hope that hasn't skewed anything.

I will agree with Sam that a questionnaire like that could do with a bit more 'polish'. It felt like a Facebook quiz, which is okay for Facebook.

Does part of the rating of the thesis require submission of the questionnaire itself for evaluation?


 

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Originally Posted by Arctic_Princess View Post
I also counted 'micro-transactions' as previous purchase of Booster Packs, not just the new Paragon Market. I hope that hasn't skewed anything.
That's exactly what they were, in the grand scale of the game. The only thing that's changed about those packs is where you buy them.


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