Survey results are in!

[theolaf 24]

Good morning/afternoon/evening everyone! I recently posted a very short survey to gather peoples feelings on the entire "can incident" and how people feel the community developers are doing. I let the survey run for 24 hours- thank you everyone who contributed! Below you will see the results!

793 respondents

363 from reddit

290 from dayzmod

105 from opendayz

35 from other (4chan, outside referrals)

Overall, how did you feel about the naming convention of new feed items in DayZ?

I liked them. 15.26% total: 121

Didn't bother me at all. 23.58% total: 187

Okay, but could have named some of them better. 19.04% total: 151

I disliked them. 23.33% total: 185

I absolutely hated them. 18.79% total: 149

Did you see any gameplay issues being brought on by these names? (multiple choice)

I thought the names were unprofessional and/or looked bad for DayZs reputation. 42.12% total: 334

They broke immersion for me. 32.66% total: 259

They didn't break immersion for me, but I see how it could bother others. 23.08% total: 183

I wanted items named after me. 1.13% total: 9

I see nothing wrong with the item names. 31.65% total: 251

Other 9.21% total: 73

Other comments were evenly mixed good and bad.

Do you think the developers have "lost touch" with the community?

Yes, they seem to almost ignore the entire community. 3.66% total: 29

Yes, they are out of touch with large parts of the community. 27.11% total: 215

Yes, they lost touch with a minority. 17.15% total: 136

No, they are doing just the same. 35.44% total: 281

No they are doing better. 16.65% total: 132

What have I personally learned? Well- it seems that both good and bad comments are pretty equally distributed across ALL the communities. It would appear that Reddit is not just "hating", nor are the official forums full of "fanboys". In fact a slightly higher percentage of official forum participants disliked the cans in game- HOWEVER- a slightly higher percentage of official forum participants were happy with the developers ability to communicate. Surprisingly, I also learned that the 4chan participants tended to put far more insightful information in their comments- with half of their comments maxing out the character limits. It would seem that overall- people were rather unhappy with the addition of the named cans in game; whether it was distasteful or it genuinely affected their gameplay. It would also appear that the community overall is split almost down the middle as far as satisfaction with the Developers. I will let you all take this information in- and of course it should only be taken at face value. But nearly 800 participants I believe gives a decent representation of everyone's minds. Please let me know if you have any questions, comments, or concerns!

Original survey post here: http://dayzmod.com/f...ke-this-survey/

EDIT: I have opened the survey up again for long term collection! Go ahead and get your voice in! I will post long term results Saturday night!

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/MHB79BM

Edited February 27, 2013 by theolaf

[Uncle Zed 272]

Wait.. what's this about?

[theolaf 24]

Wait.. what's this about?

I posted a survey yesterday to try to squash some of the hate being flung around about the removal of the food from the latest update. Essentially it turns out that most people didn't like the food, it wasn't just a reddit thing- just reddit complains more loudly than the dayzmod forum people.

[noso2142 0]

OH NO THE WORLDS SCREWED

[taco241 393]

Did you see any gameplay issues being brought on by these names? (multiple choice)

I thought the names were unprofessional and/or looked bad for DayZs reputation. 42.12% total: 334

They broke immersion for me. 32.66% total: 259

They didn't break immersion for me, but I see how it could bother others. 23.08% total: 183

I wanted items named after me. 1.13% total: 9

I see nothing wrong with the item names. 31.65% total: 251

Other 9.21% total: 73

The percentages areway off on this one. Add them up.

[herbster 34]

Nope, it was a multiple choice.

[Play (DayZ) 123]

No disrespect to your survey but your questions have not been though through properly. There a lots of flaws:

1- Some questions have personal views imposed on (leading questions)

2- Sampling strategy not clear (who were invited to this survey)

3- Scale is very biased (more negative options than positive)

I'm no PHD student but I have done lots of reseach questions for my Masters.

[_Anubis_ (DayZ) 139]

20/20 useless hindsight ... Why didn't you do the survey yourself and/or commented before?

Thanks and beans to theolaf for his effort.

_Anubis_

[Play (DayZ) 123]

20/20 useless hindsight ... Why didn't you do the survey yourself and/or commented before?

Thanks and beans to theolaf for his effort.

_Anubis_

One word - Biased

[Gooober 34]

Amazing how people complain about the little things and miss the real problems.... Durrrr

[guidez 180]

Quite amazing that someone tries to think about everyone and then everyone teams up on him.

[theolaf 24]

No disrespect to your survey but your questions have not been though through properly. There a lots of flaws:

1- Some questions have personal views imposed on (leading questions)

2- Sampling strategy not clear (who were invited to this survey)

3- Scale is very biased (more negative options than positive)

I'm no PHD student but I have done lots of reseach questions for my Masters.

Check my post, I actually posted this survey on the forums here TWICE, both times inviting EVERYONE to participate. I also posted the survey on 4chan, reddit, and opendayz. If you didn't participate, it is on your own accord. This is in no way biased. The questions MAY be a little leading, but not really, all people had to do was answer truthfully- and I left an "other" comment box for comments that didnt fit in any of the answers. I read ALL of them, all of which were a mixed bad of yes/no (with a couple inappropriate "bronyf**/whinyB****" comments. As I said, all survey results should be taken for face value, but this is as unbiased as a survey can get. IF anything, it is biased towards "I like the food" due to the fact that everyone who didn't have anything negative got lumped into one number. Especially the second question was to see to what factor (if any) people did not like the food. The fact that almost half the people alone said they were unprofessional or looked bad says something. I am not siding with either group, and I am keeping my decision on the matter confidential as with everyone elses answers on the survey. But please dont turn this thread into another "circle jerk" because that is where this conversation is going.

To everyone else- I greatly appreciate the thanks, and I thank everyone for participating- and SPECIAL thanks go out to moderator Inception. for his professionalism in clearing an issue up!

Edited February 27, 2013 by theolaf

[Uncle Zed 272]

I posted a survey yesterday to try to squash some of the hate being flung around about the removal of the food from the latest update. Essentially it turns out that most people didn't like the food, it wasn't just a reddit thing- just reddit complains more loudly than the dayzmod forum people.

I guess I missed something.. what removal of food?

[timboski 618]

And that's the story of Jesus.

[zscope 282]

I didn't know this survey went live and after reading those questions you can see it's set up to favour people against the update giving far more options for people to vote against it. Should have been 2 sides. Those for or those against. Thus 2 answers. Simply do you like the update yes or no?

[theolaf 24]

I guess I missed something.. what removal of food?

There was food added to the game 2 days ago that the majority thought was named inappropriately. Essentially I believe the most thought the name didn't fit in dayZ. They were named after prominent community members and forum moderators- this was done with good intention, but perhaps is just the wrong way to give a nice nod to those who dedicate their time to dayzmod.

[mzltv 2281]

Nope, it was a multiple choice.

Well surely that makes the whole thing null and void, seeing as they were very objective answers?

IE. If I hated DayZ enough and wanted to cause more shit, I'd answer the questions with every possible negetive answer.

:emptycan:

[herbster 34]

Well surely that makes the whole thing null and void, seeing as they were very objective answers?

IE. If I hated DayZ enough and wanted to cause more shit, I'd answer the questions with every possible negetive answer.

:emptycan:

If you read the actual questions, you'll see that THAT particular question was multiple choice, not ALL the questions. If you also bother to look at the answer statistics, you'd see that there is large variation between the figures for each negative answer.

[theolaf 24]

Well surely that makes the whole thing null and void, seeing as they were very objective answers?

IE. If I hated DayZ enough and wanted to cause more shit, I'd answer the questions with every possible negetive answer.

:emptycan:

That is the problem with EVERY survey. This is why I say take it for face value. Typically, surveys allow for a 3% margin of error, to assuming 24 trolls only posted negative things- that will not skew the results any significant amount. Yes the second question is "subjective", but I wanted to see what peoples issues were (if any). You can still see that only 31.65% of people actually thought there was nothing wrong with the food. That 31.65% most likely isnt going to check any other boxes- meaning that leaves ~68.35% of people who are distributed among the REST of the answers based on %/(.3). Math is too much for me right now, but essentially* almost 70% of the people at least thought it wasn't perhaps the best of ideas.

Edited February 27, 2013 by theolaf

[novogeek 253]

Seriously ... again ... what will become of us ... we are doomed ... doomed I tell you.

I didn't actually know about the poll ... weird. Oh well ... I wasn't counted in our last census either ... maybe I am being picked on. *shrug*

[theolaf 24]

Seriously ... again ... what will become of us ... we are doomed ... doomed I tell you.

I didn't actually know about the poll ... weird. Oh well ... I wasn't counted in our last census either ... maybe I am being picked on. *shrug*

We all just don't like you!

My first thread was posted in suggestions, it was lock and moved to general. Later in the day, i posted another thread in General that stayed as the very top post for a couple hours, Actually, that post is still on the first page. I tried to get the word out as much as possible, and as I said 290 people took the survey from the dayzmod forum link- so I think I at least had partial success. I'm sorry you didnt get to voice your word. Cest la vie, I suppose.

[novogeek 253]

We all just don't like you!

My first thread was posted in suggestions, it was lock and moved to general. Later in the day, i posted another thread in General that stayed as the very top post for a couple hours, Actually, that post is still on the first page. I tried to get the word out as much as possible, and as I said 290 people took the survey from the dayzmod forum link- so I think I at least had partial success. I'm sorry you didnt get to voice your word. Cest la vie, I suppose.

Hehehehe ... neah it is cool. :)

[theolaf 24]

Attention! I opened the survey back up just to see what a "long term" poll will look like. go ahead and vote now if you like, I will post the results of the long term poll Saturday night!

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/MHB79BM

[DazTroyer 227]

I still can't get my head around all the fuss over a few names. The models were professionally created, with brilliant aging and looked similar to their real world counterparts. It's been made clear we can't have coca cola etc as they haven't agreed to let Rocket and Co use them. Can't say I blame them either, Beans means "bandits roaming a zombie infected wasteland murdering innocent survivors" heinz, for some reason I can't see that commercial running before the watershed. How's this breaks my immersion is beyond me but different strokes and all that.

Oh and I was one of the nine who wanted the beans named after me, lol. :)

[theolaf 24]

I still can't get my head around all the fuss over a few names. The models were professionally created, with brilliant aging and looked similar to their real world counterparts. It's been made clear we can't have coca cola etc as they haven't agreed to let Rocket and Co use them. Can't say I blame them either, Beans means "bandits roaming a zombie infected wasteland murdering innocent survivors" heinz, for some reason I can't see that commercial running before the watershed. How's this breaks my immersion is beyond me but different strokes and all that.

Oh and I was one of the nine who wanted the beans named after me, lol. :)

An honest man!

Lol, some people had big issues with it. Much of it stemming from the fact that it just doesnt fit in the game. I know that I, personally look at every item I pick up, and I could imagine quite a few others do to. Lots of people play th game to get as involved as possible, not just to pew pew zombies and people. To each their own... eh?