[aatc]

A waste of money - the UK gouvernment has just spent millions on a "Focus Group" to decide if Asians want to be known as "British-Asian, Asian or British-Black".. Can people not just use common sense? - Who cares what a focus group of 0.01% of the player community thinks.

If you cared about what players thought, we woulden't all be running around making big sparks every time we hit somebody, have big red things coming from our feet and have PvP that lasts for 10 mins with the damage mods.

You would also know that the next patch with the new crafting buffs will render most crafters who have spent months if not years mastering the art of their profession useless.

The CU has made the game 100% template based - Items don't mean anything anymore.

(THE REALER)

Apeik Torres

Pre-9 Dark Jedi Knight

(A Very old Jedi)
"It's put up or shut up time for both parties. The game is changing whether players like it or not as the big wheel is already turning quickly."

[wildcat84]

Personally, I don't believe in focus groups. And, as I said in another thread, all SOE needs to do to learn everything about what players in any demo/age/region like or dislike about the game is to do a database query.

Focus groups are more often used to push an agenda (by generating "scientific" stats proving the preconceived conclusion) than they are for legitimate purposes, though I am NOT saying that this is what SOE is doing here. I don't see how such a narrow sample from an area that is unlike 99% of the US (San Francisco) is going to produce meaningful data. As the original poster stated, the methodology is very unscientific.

The best way to do this would be to do the aforementioned database query, look for what they want more information on, sample those players, and ask permission to contact them for a survey.

It'd cost less money, and would produce useful data, and would be representative of the customer base as a whole. Plus, it could be done CONSTANTLY. This is an online, interactive game that allows SOE to collect such data in real time, thus, defeating ANY need for focus groups in the method that this one is to be conducted. Indeed, if SOE did this, they'd be able to collect such detailed and real time data that they literally could see from publish to publish what is and isn't liked. And, it would be unbiased, representative, and objective data!

Message Edited by wildcat84 on 08-31-2005 04:51 PM

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