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It’s simple. We’ve put together a portfolio of questions that get right to the user’s core. You answer the questions honestly (don’t worry, your information will be kept private and only passed on to the highest bidder) and the Gonzo Tech lab bunnies will collate the results and deliver a profile of the typical Special Reserve poster.
Without further ado…
PERSONAL
1. Male or Female?
2. Age?
3. Where do you live?
a) North East England
b) North West England
c) The Midlands
d) South West England
e) South East England
f) Scotland
g) Wales
h) N. Ireland
i) Eire
j) Other
4. And do you live…
a) with parents
b) in Uni digs
c) in wour own place
d) where you lay your head, that’s your home
5. Occupation – what best describes your 9-5?
a) Full-time job
b) School, A-Levels
c) School, GCSE or “lower”
d) College, GNVQ, HND or the like
e) Uni – big, smart, grown up degree.
FORUM LIFE
1. How long have you been here?
2. And how many posts have you made?
3. On average, how long would you spend on the forums in a day?
4. How many other forums do you regularly post on?
GAMING LIFE
1. Out of the current “Big Three”, which of the consoles do you own?
2. And how many games do you own for these three?
3. How many hours do you play games on average each week?
4. On average, how often would you BUY a game? (GAD doesn’t count)
5. How best describes you views on games pricing?
a) Too expensive.
b) About right.
c) I’m thick, I want to pay more.
6. Everyone has a favourite, declare your fanboy-ism:
a) PS2
b) Gamecube
c) XBox
d) PC
7. What’s your favourite console game from this generation?
a) Mario Sunshine
b) Metroid
c) Super Monkey Ball ½
d) MGS 2
e) FFX
f) GTA3
g) Halo
h) Splinter Cell
i) Other
8. What’s your favourite game of all time?
9. What was your first gaming machine?
ONLINE GAMING
1. Simply, have you ever played on-line? (yes/no)
2. Are you excited about console on-line gaming? (yes/no)
3. What do you think would be a fair price for a monthly subscription to play an MMORPG on-line?
a) Free – I’m well cheap and don’t understand how these things work.
b) about £5
c) about £10
d) about £15
4. What do you think would be a fair price for a monthly subscription to other types of on-line games?
a) Free
b) about £5
c) about £10
d) about £15
5. Have you already bought, or intend to buy in the near future, a console gaming internet starter kit? (yes/no)
6. What do you currently use to access the internet?
a) 33k or slower modem
b) 56k modem
c) ISDN
d) ADSL
e) Cable
7. Is their a broadband service in your area (or announced for the near future)? (yes/no)
GENERAL
1. Coffee or tea?
2. War on Iraq – yes or no?
3. Hair – long or short?
4. Girls – blond, brunette, redhead or are you just grateful for anything?
5. Music – burn or buy?
6. Do you play a musical instrument?
7. How many books have you read this year?
8. How often would you go to the cinema?
a) More than once a week
b) Once a week
c) Two or three times a month
d) Once a month
e) Less
9. Pub, club or gig?
10. If you were to write a questionnaire, what question would you put here?
Get as many people to answer as possible and results will be posted sometime on Monday. Keep your answers brief, to the point and try and answer everything. I’m hoping there’ll be quite a few to get through, so want to keep the task as straight forward as possible!
1. Male or Female? Male
2. Age? 16
3. Where do you live?
k) Yorkshire
4. And do you live…
a) with parents
5. Occupation – what best describes your 9-5?
c) School, GCSE's
FORUM LIFE
1. How long have you been here? 162 days (I think)
2. And how many posts have you made? About 4,500
3. On average, how long would you spend on the forums in a day? weekdays about an hour a night up to about 4 hours if theres nothing on telly and I am bored. Weekends it varies.
4. How many other forums do you regularly post on? None
GAMING LIFE
1. Out of the current “Big Three”, which of the consoles do you own? Cube
2. And how many games do you own for these three? 10 and 3 pre-ordered.
3. How many hours do you play games on average each week? About 5-10
4. On average, how often would you BUY a game? (GAD doesn’t count) Not very often, I don't have very much money.
5. How best describes you views on games pricing? Too expensive
6. Everyone has a favourite, declare your fanboy-ism:
PC and Cube - Love them both.
7. What’s your favourite console game from this generation?
i) Other
8. What’s your favourite game of all time? Either 'Thief: The Dark Project' on PC or one of the Resi games.
9. What was your first gaming machine? Commadore 64
ONLINE GAMING
1. Simply, have you ever played on-line? yes
2. Are you excited about console on-line gaming? no
3. What do you think would be a fair price for a monthly subscription to play an MMORPG on-line?
What is MMORPG?
4. What do you think would be a fair price for a monthly subscription to other types of on-line games?
a) Free
5. Have you already bought, or intend to buy in the near future, a console gaming internet starter kit?
no
6. What do you currently use to access the internet?
b) 56k modem
7. Is their a broadband service in your area (or announced for the near future)? yes
GENERAL
1. Coffee or tea? tea
2. War on Iraq – yes or no? yes
3. Hair – long or short? Short
4. Girls – blond, brunette, redhead or are you just grateful for anything? Brunette
5. Music – burn or buy? Both
6. Do you play a musical instrument? Bass, I can DJ too!
7. How many books have you read this year? 2, To kill a mocking bird and something else, urgh.
8. How often would you go to the cinema?
c) Two or three times a month
9. Pub, club or gig?
Club
10. If you were to write a questionnaire, what question would you put here?
I'd put, "The first 20 replies get £20 HMV vouchers"
1. Male or Female?
Male
2. Age?
16
3. Where do you live?
e) South East England
4. And do you live…
a) with parents
5. Occupation – what best describes your 9-5?
c) School, GCSE or “lower”
FORUM LIFE
1. How long have you been here?
As long as it says + my time here as Ine-San before I got banned
2. And how many posts have you made?
Several
3. On average, how long would you spend on the forums in a day?
1-2hrs
4. How many other forums do you regularly post on?
1
GAMING LIFE
1. Out of the current “Big Three”, which of the consoles do you own?
Gamecube
2. And how many games do you own for these three?
2
3. How many hours do you play games on average each week?
7
4. On average, how often would you BUY a game? (GAD doesn’t count)
1 a month?
5. How best describes you views on games pricing?
Rip-off (although Dixons are cheap now
6. Everyone has a favourite, declare your fanboy-ism:
b) Gamecube
7. What’s your favourite console game from this generation?
i) Other
8. What’s your favourite game of all time?
Shenmue or Mario 3 (NES) or Zelda
9. What was your first gaming machine?
NES
ONLINE GAMING
1. Simply, have you ever played on-line?
Yes
2. Are you excited about console on-line gaming?
No
3. What do you think would be a fair price for a monthly subscription to play an MMORPG on-line?
Free
4. What do you think would be a fair price for a monthly subscription to other types of on-line games?
a) Free
5. Have you already bought, or intend to buy in the near future, a console gaming internet starter kit?
No
6. What do you currently use to access the internet?
a) 33k or slower modem
7. Is their a broadband service in your area (or announced for the near future)?
Yes
GENERAL
1. Tea
2. War on Iraq – No
3. Hair – inbetween
4. Girls – Just grateful for anything
5. Music – Buy
6. Do you play a musical instrument?
Yes, Guitar (poorly)
7. How many books have you read this year?
Several
8. How often would you go to the cinema?
c) Two or three times a month (If I ever had the time it would be more)
9. Gig
10. If you were to write a questionnaire, what question would you put here?
pythagorus' theory is?
>
> Yes Robin, you bloody pleb.
>
Your a bloody pleb...
> I think Small Blue was talking about the 'How many hours do you spend
> on the forum per day' question
Yes Robin, you bloody pleb.
And DW, don't your parents ever tell you to come off? :D
> 1. Male or Female?
Male.
> 2. Age?
18.
> 3. Where do you live?
g) Wales
> 4. And do you live…
a) with parents
> 5. Occupation – what best describes your 9-5?
a) Full-time job
> FORUM LIFE
> 1. How long have you been here?
528 days.
> 2. And how many posts have you made?
2868 posts including this one.
> 3. On average, how long would you spend on the forums in a day?
Nowadays, an hour at the most.
> 4. How many other forums do you regularly post on?
1.
GAMING LIFE
> 1. Out of the current “Big Three”, which of the consoles do you own?
2.
> 2. And how many games do you own for these three?
26 (spanning both)
> 3. How many hours do you play games on average each week?
21.
> 4. On average, how often would you BUY a game? (GAD doesn’t count)
Every 2 weeks.
> 5. How best describes you views on games pricing?
b) About right.
> 6. Everyone has a favourite, declare your fanboy-ism:
c) XBox
> 7. What’s your favourite console game from this generation?
g) Halo
> 8. What’s your favourite game of all time?
Sonic 3 & Knuckles lock-on.
> 9. What was your first gaming machine?
SEGA Master System.
ONLINE GAMING
> 1. Simply, have you ever played on-line? (yes/no)
Yeah.
> 2. Are you excited about console on-line gaming? (yes/no)
No.
> 3. What do you think would be a fair price for a monthly subscription
> to play an MMORPG on-line?
c) about £10
> 4. What do you think would be a fair price for a monthly subscription
> to other types of on-line games?
b) about £5
> 5. Have you already bought, or intend to buy in the near future, a
> console gaming internet starter kit? (yes/no)
Yes.
> 6. What do you currently use to access the internet?
b) 56k modem
> 7. Is their a broadband service in your area (or announced for the
> near future)? (yes/no)
Yes.
GENERAL
> 1. Coffee or tea?
Neither... but for argument's sake, tea.
> 2. War on Iraq – yes or no?
No.
> 3. Hair – long or short?
Short.
> 4. Girls – blond, brunette, redhead or are you just grateful for
> anything?
Greatful for anything.
> 5. Music – burn or buy?
Buy.
> 6. Do you play a musical instrument?
Fingers on desk... well, no.
> 7. How many books have you read this year?
1... nearly 2.
> 8. How often would you go to the cinema?
e) Less
> 9. Pub, club or gig?
Pub.
> 10. If you were to write a questionnaire, what question would you put
> here?
How much of your valuable time did filling out this questionnaire waste?
1. Male
2. Age 17
3. Where do you live?
g) Wales
4. And do you live…
a) with parents
5. Occupation – what best describes your 9-5?
f) none of the above - I start work at 5pm
FORUM LIFE
1. How long have you been here?
Practiacally since the forums were set up...when there was only 1 message in the Pokémon Yellow forum (roughly 3 years)
2. And how many posts have you made?
If I knew...I'd say.
3. On average, how long would you spend on the forums in a day?
Again, if I knew...I'd say...it depends on what I'm playing lately
4. How many other forums do you regularly post on?
1
GAMING LIFE
1. Out of the current “Big Three”, which of the consoles do you own?
GameCube
Xbox
Game Boy Advance (you meant PS2 not GBA? ok, stick that in)
2. And how many games do you own for these three?
close to around 75 if you add them all together. Currently 32 on the Cube.
3. How many hours do you play games on average each week?
I don't have the foggiest.
4. On average, how often would you BUY a game? (GAD doesn’t count)
Around once every 2 weeks - though I'm cutting down.
5. How best describes you views on games pricing?
b) About right.
6. Everyone has a favourite, declare your fanboy-ism:
b) Gamecube
7. What’s your favourite console game from this generation?
c) Super Monkey Ball ½ (don't you mean 1/2?)
i) Other <-my answer
8. What’s your favourite game of all time? The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (SNES)
9. What was your first gaming machine?
ZX Spectrum 48k+
ONLINE GAMING
1. Simply, have you ever played on-line? yes
2. Are you excited about console on-line gaming? no
3. What do you think would be a fair price for a monthly subscription to play an MMORPG on-line?
a) Free – I’m well cheap and don’t understand how these things work.
Why should I pay to play a game I've paid for?
4. What do you think would be a fair price for a monthly subscription to other types of on-line games?
a) Free
5. Have you already bought, or intend to buy in the near future, a console gaming internet starter kit? no
6. What do you currently use to access the internet?
b) 56k modem
7. Is their a broadband service in your area (or announced for the near future)? yes
GENERAL
1. Coffee or tea? Neither, I hate them both. Hot Chocolate
2. War on Iraq – yes
3. Hair – short?
4. Girls – redhead AND are you just grateful for anything :D
5. Music – buy
6. Do you play a musical instrument? Yes
7. How many books have you read this year? 1
8. How often would you go to the cinema?
b) Once a week
9. Pub
10. If you were to write a questionnaire, what question would you put here?
If the square of the hypotenuse is three times the distance from A to B, does that make me gay?
> Jeez DW - do you have nothing better to do for 10 hours a day!?
:cD
Sometimes it's agonisingly boring!
> Jeez DW - do you have nothing better to do for 10 hours a day!?
You put 20 hours down...