Survey: Guild Advancement

[Cordovan]

We're looking to get some information from you about your guild advancement experience up to this point. Click here to take our brief survey! Answer the questions to the best of your ability, so it's okay if you can't remember the exact month or number of members; give us an approximate figure if you can.

[Dragon.Star]

Wow.

I'm impressed, instead of pulling the data your asking for from you own systems, your asking your paying customers to provide the Data you already have. Ingenious!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and a new low imo.

[FranOhmsford]

I've answered for my own guild on Cannith - Scions of Stormreach - as there's no question about being in more than one guild or on other servers.

Formed - Mid 2010 {I've said June}
#of Accounts - Currently 8
Guild Lvl - 59

[stoopid_cowboy]

We're looking to get some information from you about your guild advancement experience up to this point. Click here to take our brief survey! Answer the questions to the best of your ability, so it's okay if you can't remember the exact month or number of members; give us an approximate figure if you can.

What kind of useless garbage survey is that????
What information does "when was your guild formed" give you? Just checking to see if there are any old guilds left?

A more relevant question would be "How long did it take your guild to attain it's current level". I know my guild was stalemated at level 72 for over a year!!!! Not because we weren't active, but because decay was so severe we could not advance.

Survey closed, not worth submitting.

p.s. Sorry for the blunt annoyed answer.

[EllisDee37]

It does seem in poor taste to ask for surveys of probably-misremembered datapoints when you could (should) instead query the database to get the actual, accurate data.

[dunklezhan]

I can't imagine what value those four questions are you to Turbine, but I've completed them anyway.

[sephiroth1084]

What a pointless survey.

How about queries like:

• How long did it take your guild to reach its current level?
• What level did your guild peak at prior to the removal of renown decay?
• Has your guild turned away, or kicked out, players over concerns about their impact on the guild's leveling (ie, inactive players dismissed)?
• What goals have motivated your guild to advance (amenity access, new airship for hookpoints, new airship for aesthetic reasons, bragging rights)?
• How many guilds are you in?
• Have you started a guild, or guilds?
• What is the longest you have remained in any one guild?
• What drew you to join the guild you are currently a member of?

[oradafu]

What a pointless survey.

How about queries like:

• How long did it take your guild to reach its current level?
• What level did your guild peak at prior to the removal of renown decay?
• Has your guild turned away, or kicked out, players over concerns about their impact on the guild's leveling (ie, inactive players dismissed)?
• What goals have motivated your guild to advance (amenity access, new airship for hookpoints, new airship for aesthetic reasons, bragging rights)?
• How many guilds are you in?
• Have you started a guild, or guilds?
• What is the longest you have remained in any one guild?
• What drew you to join the guild you are currently a member of?

^ A much better survey than the official one, since the Devs should be able to pull the answers of their survey without player input.

[skaught78]

Yeah that was pretty much pointless... Why not devote some resources to... Say bug fixes? Lag fix? Loot Gen? Cannith Crafting?

Please? With sugar on top?

[khamastus]

You guys sound exactly like my wife. Seriously.

[Qhualor]

i think surveys are a great way to get player feedback and think we need more of them, but this survey was the basic of the basics. 2 questions i just randomly guessed because i have no clue when Gypsys was founded. i joined them about 2 1/2 - 3 years ago. i think its best to make these surveys less generalized and more specific to get better feedback. of course, this information on guilds is something you guys can find out for yourselves with your own private data and curious as to why ask us?

[Mercureal]

Possibly they're looking to collect some faulty human-originated data and compare it against their databases - get a sense of the reliability of information from the self-selected userbase, maybe?

[merentha]

You guys sound exactly like my wife. Seriously.

If my wife caught me laughing at this post I'd be dead (looks over shoulder furtively).

That said. I found the survey odd, but answered as heck it didn't kill me and my looking it up myself was enlightening.

NoM founded October '09 and if I'm off by much then if not October we managed to create ourselves as fr00bs in late September

Whopping Guild Level 68ish (yeah I'd have to log in and look as we're (the 2 that still play semi-regularly) really ignoring anything until 70 and then 78 and we don't level so fast lately).

[ToastyFred]

Lots of whinging going on in here.

[Livmo]

I just want to point out surveys can be good for a variety of reasons.

Data mining is OK, but surveys are better at measuring peoples' perception. The data can show one angle/view, but peoples' perception of how things work/are, or what they feel their exp. to be can say something entirely different. Guess what? Aggregated perception is going to trump hard data at times. The data won't matter if a majority feels a certain way about an issue at times. People are people.

I don't know what the intent is, but I took the survey anyway. Why? Because Cordovan asked, "We're looking to get some information from you about your guild advancement experience up to this point".

At the very least it made me feel good that Turbine is interested in how the game feels to me. I'm human just like everyone else, I don't care what the data says, all I care about is how I feel about my exp. regarding guild advancement

I'm sure Turbine knows what the data reflects. Perhaps they want measure how we feel about our guild advancement experiences in relationship to upcoming changes to the game they plan to make? Of course it would make me feel good, right, wrong, or otherwise, to know that Turbine took a look at both the data and people's perception about guild advancement prior to making live changes. Even if change is not needed, and things are WAI, I don't see anything wrong with Turbine trying to give me what I want, even if I don't need it based on data.

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For random fun:

1. fanboy http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=fanboy

A passionate fan of various elements of geek culture (e.g. sci-fi, comics, Star Wars, video games, anime, hobbits, Magic: the Gathering, etc.), but who lets his passion override social graces.

1. fanboi http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=fanboi
Someone who is hopelessly devoted to something and will like anything associated with thier particular thing.

Excluding gender and such (but including trolls) could all DDO forumites fall into one of these definitions on any given day or post?

It pleases me to be called a fan at times, because I spend allot time playing and I've been smitten by this game.

[dontmater]

im shocked they didnt ask what time of the day the guild was started

[poltt48]

Yeah was weird but also did not apply to my guild. C.L.A.W. (Councel of Law and War) has been around since 1995. Is on 8 MMO and started on ddo when game first came out like have on 6 other games. So asking when was formed could not really say since we were around way before this game. Or asking number of members when have almost 1k guildys over 8 MMOs. Did not really know what to put for answers.

[sephiroth1084]

You guys sound exactly like my wife. Seriously.

She must be a no-nonsense, intelligent, and discerning woman.

[PermaBanned]

I just have to wonder what the eploi... "feature maximizers" who founded/joined guilds and blitzed them from start to 100 in no time put for answers:

Guild: (name here) level 100
Founded: January 2014
# of members: 4
How long to reach current level: A day.

Would be amusing anyway.


But yeah, really lost on the point of this one...

[cdbd3rd]

You guys sound exactly like my wife. Seriously.

She must be a no-nonsense, intelligent, and discerning woman.

...and hawt.

**************

Survey completed.

Should kink their metric a bit to have an '07 guild that's only made it to level 23.