It honestly makes me a little sad that some people won't take the survey seriously.

Things like this are valuable tools for a company to use. And sifting through BS surveys is one of the most frustrating things in the world.

O I agree with you the first survey was better then this one. I got the vibe that they are putting a premium subscription. What do you think about that

When it asked me what games I was currently playing, I listed EVE Online because it was playing in the background on my work computer, but not Dust since I can't play it at work. Apparently that ended the survey.

It makes me sad that less than 1/4 of the player base even got this survey.

CCP did not send this survey out to everyone.

Pffff waist of time.

You know, you could stop whining and just ask someone to post a link to the survey.

So, if you happen to be one of the people who got the survey - please post a link to it.

Up until the point they unceremoniously ended the survey (unless that was supposed to be the last question), they just asked questions about how much money I spend on games, consoles I play, and general marketing BS. They didn't ask a damn thing about the issues with Dust, so it's just a big "how do we squeeze more money out of you" circlejerk market research survey as far as I'm concerned.

Rather than thank them, I'd like to tell them to go copulate with themselves for the waste of time that had no bearing on my experiences, only on their profits.

I answered it correctly. I wasn't currently playing Dust. I'm getting the impression everyone else was lying about whether or not they were currently playing the game, unless they were afk in Merc quarters.

It's not my fault if they can't word a question right.

Knowing your main demographics is pretty important for marketing, it can even help with development - such as allowing you to prioritize features based on what demographics you want to appeal to the most (as well as finding out what the community wants most, this survey can also tell you what certain demographics want most - which can be quite valuable if you're trying to expand [or even just define] your target audience).

You're missing the larger picture.

How many people have become frustrated with this game and quit playing? It could be over core mechanics, lack of content, speed of updates, or whatever. The AA/hit-detection changes in 1.4 definitely caused some serious attrition. It made people that have played since before launch quit. That's not the only reason people have stopped playing either.

This represents a huge chunk of people with intimate familiarity with Dust and more hours logged with comparative experience of the various iterations than most. These people may have quit a month ago, they may have quit a couple of weeks ago. Do you thinks days worth of real-time experience on 1.5/1.4 is irrelevant now?

What message do you think someone that decided to stop playing Dust a week ago (but still cared enough to open a survey) would indicate when asked if he/she "currently played Dust"? If they're even remotely honest, they'd say "no" - because a survey is your chance to indicate WHY you stopped playing and the issues you have. Instead, they'd be ejected after perfunctory market research questions - insult to injury basically.

So, we have a survey that was generated and sent to players designed to only be completable by people masochistic enough to continue to play the game in its current state. This is what we'd call a skewed sample.

They've done us no favors, and their data will be crap just as their sampling methods, question wording, and so on was. YOU have the gall to thank them for perpetrating this farce. Masochists indeed.