Bungie Beta Test question feedback

by Avateur @, Tuesday, February 19, 2013, 18:55 (4076 days ago)

Just trying to be helpful, because I'm having a hard time wedging myself into certain categories or answers.

First (and this one is a very personal gripe of mine, something that bothers me in general on surveys and studies and research questions that for some reason seem to confuse what "gender" really means), the question on what my gender is. Does the social construction for what defines me based on norms and what society may dictate really relate to what Bungie is really asking for, aka my sex? Nope. It'd be nifty if this were to be corrected in the future.

Second, the question, "Have you ever been a member or leader of a clan, guild, or other online gaming group?" leads to three answers:

Yes, as a member
Yes, as a leader
No"

More than one answer may be true.

Third, the question "In a game, I typically play more:

Campaign/Story
Multiplayer - Cooperative
Multiplayer - Competitive"

I get that they're trying to narrow it down, but it significantly depends on the game. I have friends who play the hell out of ME3's multiplayer, but I hardly touch it and have instead played plenty of campaign. The same goes for Assassin's Creed. But then I have games like Halo, where depending on which Halo game it is, I've easily played more campaign than multiplayer, more competitive multiplayer than other forms, or more cooperative multiplayer than anything else. Games now adays do a great job of appealing to multiple forms of entertainment, and it's not exactly easy to decipher where I fit in with what Bungie may be looking for. I really want to go 50/50 campaign/competitive multiplayer.

These may be a bit nitpicky overall, but I figure any bit of feedback helps. Frankly, I'm just happy to have the opportunity to potentially help test out anything or provide feedback about preferences (and my thoughts on how said preferences are asked). Thanks Bungie!

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by kanbo @, Seattle, WA, Tuesday, February 19, 2013, 19:46 (4076 days ago) @ Avateur

Based on your answers here, I don't think you'd be a good candidate.

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by Avateur @, Tuesday, February 19, 2013, 20:00 (4076 days ago) @ kanbo

It's not my fault that I really enjoy campaigns but also enjoy the cooperative experience with friends and strangers while at the same time thoroughly enjoying competitively beating up on both friends and randoms if I'm not battling and exploring my way through the campaigns and stories that I have landed in all lone wolf style. Hater.

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by kapowaz, Wednesday, February 20, 2013, 05:10 (4075 days ago) @ Avateur

First (and this one is a very personal gripe of mine, something that bothers me in general on surveys and studies and research questions that for some reason seem to confuse what "gender" really means), the question on what my gender is. Does the social construction for what defines me based on norms and what society may dictate really relate to what Bungie is really asking for, aka my sex? Nope. It'd be nifty if this were to be corrected in the future.

Completely agree here. Gender isn't as simple as male / female nowadays, and there's a strong argument for not asking this question (or at least, not in a checkbox fashion).

Second, the question, "Have you ever been a member or leader of a clan, guild, or other online gaming group?" leads to three answers:

Yes, as a member
Yes, as a leader
No"

More than one answer may be true.

Isn't it implicit that you were a member if you were also a leader?

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by General Vagueness @, The Vault of Sass, Friday, February 22, 2013, 15:32 (4073 days ago) @ Avateur

First (and this one is a very personal gripe of mine, something that bothers me in general on surveys and studies and research questions that for some reason seem to confuse what "gender" really means), the question on what my gender is. Does the social construction for what defines me based on norms and what society may dictate really relate to what Bungie is really asking for, aka my sex? Nope. It'd be nifty if this were to be corrected in the future.

I get what you're saying, and kapowaz has a good point too about some people being in-between. I've filled out a lot of forms and taken a lot of surveys and (although almost half of them had an "I prefer not to say" option) maybe two of them have had some kind of "in-between" or "none of the above" or "other" option.

Second, the question, "Have you ever been a member or leader of a clan, guild, or other online gaming group?" leads to three answers:

Yes, as a member
Yes, as a leader
No"

More than one answer may be true.

I think they mean for it to cascade-- "leader" supersedes "member".

Third, the question "In a game, I typically play more:

Campaign/Story
Multiplayer - Cooperative
Multiplayer - Competitive"

I get that they're trying to narrow it down, but it significantly depends on the game. I have friends who play the hell out of ME3's multiplayer, but I hardly touch it and have instead played plenty of campaign. The same goes for Assassin's Creed. But then I have games like Halo, where depending on which Halo game it is, I've easily played more campaign than multiplayer, more competitive multiplayer than other forms, or more cooperative multiplayer than anything else. Games now adays do a great job of appealing to multiple forms of entertainment, and it's not exactly easy to decipher where I fit in with what Bungie may be looking for. I really want to go 50/50 campaign/competitive multiplayer.

This kind of thing used to just stump me, it was one of my big downfalls.
There are three things you can do here.

  • figure out your number of hours spent in each category divided by the number of games you've played that have each category, respectively, and pick the one with the biggest number
  • go with whatever one feels right
  • pick randomly

You could also just not answer but then you can't finish the survey, which was the end goal, so I left that out.

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