Re:Could you work slower? (Score 3, Interesting)

It's several things: - This is an academic project with no commercial funding. - MMORPG players are becoming very cynical of surveys targeted at them. For example, see: http://everquest.allakhazam.com/forum.html?forum=1 &mid=1081006378898262613 - Recent MMORPGs have their own portals which draw most of the traffic and is much harder to publicize to those players. The other problem is that if it were publicized on the official site, then that would create suspicion of commercial motivation (which lowers response rates apart from damaging reputation). One might imagine doing online surveys at a targeted audience would be easier, but it turns out to be harder than it seems. The hardest thing is to build credibility as a researcher. After all, of all the survey links you have seen on the Net, how many have you completed? Nick