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Maplestory Survey for my thesis
Hi guys,
I'm currently doing my thesis for graduation. I pick a topic relating to Maplestory attachment and now I need your help to answers some questions so I can have data to process the next step.
This is the link of the survey:
https://forms.gle/uwMrfm2P64uav1x6A
Thank you very much for your time
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Comments
One is "Do you currently play Maplestory?" (because people who quit might have a different feeling about the game from people who still play)
and the other is "How often do you play Maplestory?" (because people who play every day might have a different feeling about the game from people who only play during Christmas or Summer break from school)
1. When you say "purchase virtual product", you should clarify with either irl or ig currency (given, yes, I'm assuming you want people to assume irl, but I can confidential say I "purchase (and sell) virtual product (gear, spell traces, scrolls) because it brings me joy (since I like merching stuff)".
2. Not everyone's in a guild.
3. Should have put a "prefer not to answer" option or not required for the personal information part. (I'm all up for helping people do research, but I draw a line if it involves personal information, whether or not it's significant. Literally stop the survey part ways through because of that part. =l)
to this:
Some of the other replies in this thread made good points as well, so I won't repeat those.
The first question you mentioned is true, I will take note about that for the next survey. About the 2nd advice, I didnt make it clear that I'm aiming for the attachment of players to the game, so seasonal players will not be counted in my survey. It's also why in the "Year of playing Maplestory", I start from "less than 1 year". Thanks for your advice btw
1. It was confusing because I didn't clarify it. So in my thesis, I assume that the "purchase virtual product" is using real money to buy in-game items like booster, gacha and decorating stuffs.
2. I agree. Either results will give me the conclusion for that factors, so just be true to the player's experience is the best.
3. Good point. I will update the survey soon
Thank you so much!!!
This is my first time doing this so there are many points to improve. Thank you for your words and time. I will do better next time, if there is next time
Thank you for your advice. I will see if I can apply it, because changing the question may affect many things
If you can, please spread the survey to your friends also. I got banned from many discord channels for asking people to do the survey, but your comments really encourage me to keep faith on people being really helpful and nice in here. Thank you so much, guys.
How will you know they are seasonal, if you don't ask the question?
I don't know how it is with other games, but in Maplestory people will answer your "Year of playing Maplestory" with "10+" even if they only actively played 2008-2010 and since then have been taking breaks of months or even years and coming back occasionally to play in summer or with a friend, and then quitting again.
oh well nice from you maybe GMS will take notes from your survey
btw
allright questions but i think you should add chat box for more explain
for example
I have fun while playing Maplestory
The actual process of playing Maplestory is pleasant
why you picked 1-5
different server different feel
playing evry day for 2h+ and playing evry day for less then 30min its not same or 2-3h a week for weekly reset
in my case about GMS i lost haveing fun like last year , because of hackers,server stabitliy and GMS $ business practices
so i come weekly at prime time untill i find server i might jump on (that makes me avoid bunch of issues that are around and noone from stuff is around)