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So I clicked the link for the survey, because they said that my opinion was important.

1st question, Male

2nd question, Your age in whole numbers: 39

Next screen said Thank you for your participation.

I guess this old-fart's opinion is not important, anyone else run into this?

39?  I'm surprised you are able to use the internet, let alone see the monitor.  Of course your opinion doesn't matter.  18-30 onry please kthnxbai.

I haven't run into it, but I'm not surprised, though the point of the survey may to try and find out how many people will take an online survey or what the mean age of THQ/GW's fanbase is (that will do online surveys).

I'm 36..ran into the same problem....dang nabbit! darn whipper-snappers!!

I'm 33 - it let me continue, until the screen after asking if anyone in my family is in advertising - i said yes, it shut me down next screen.

heh - that modifies your statistics a bit, to bottleneck them like that. What's that saying? There are three types of lies: Lies, D%#@ lies, and statistics

21. You guys got off easy. I originally assumed I was going to be entered into some sort of sweepstakes since survey crap is too much of a bother unless you get the potential promise of a prize. Anyway, I hopefully put in a few answers that throws off the curve. And seeing how they're not giving an incentive to even do the survey, my opinion counts. Whoo.

After the age discrimination I suffered  I feel morally obligated to login to the survey as a 14 year old and mess with it, too.

Uhh, where's the survey? I'm blind

Posted By Lormax on 06/22/2007 12:49 PM
Uhh, where's the survey? I'm blind

I'm referring to the one on the US GW site.

Hahaha, wow that's pretty bad as far as surveys go.

http://theminiaturespage.com/news/501521/

Wow. I'm not going to go into how frustrating that was. I tried a few times and never lasted for more than 5 minutes.

For laughs try checking 'Female'.

Instant Death!

Posted By bigchris1313 on 06/22/2007 3:48 PM
Wow. I'm not going to go into how frustrating that was. I tried a few times and never lasted for more than 5 minutes.

ROFL

Just think of how she feels, Chris.

Posted By BaconSlayer on 06/22/2007 4:07 PM
For laughs try checking 'Female'.

Instant Death!

Wow...

My job is to create surveys... and discriminators like those are terrible. They want to exclude half the population from the survey? Nothing like ignoring a potential slice of consumers. I hope someone wasn't actually paid to generate this.

Let's see... apparently 34 is the cutoff. Apparently they don't want to see how old people are who play their games, and thus cannot cater to them. Amazing.

Made some inquiries. This survey had next to nothing to do with GW, and was put together by THQ. I blame THQ for being agists

25 and male, actually had a boatload of questions to go through. Pretty interesting I think.

Um... Call me slow or something, but after I check "Female" it just shuts me out... Is there a reason for this?

Let me guess, I'm doing something wrong?

Posted By Voodoo Boyz on 06/24/2007 9:13 PM
25 and male, actually had a boatload of questions to go through. Pretty interesting I think.

I made sure to answer how awesome Necromunda was at every opportunity.

BYE

Yup. You're answering female. THQ doesn't like those.

I'd encourage everyone to answer saying how awesome Necromunda is. That way, one day, we'll have an X-Com/Jagged Alliance style Necromunda game, and the world will be at peace.

BYE

Posted By Janthkin on 06/25/2007 12:34 AM

Um... Call me slow or something, but after I check "Female" it just shuts me out... Is there a reason for this?

Let me guess, I'm doing something wrong?

Yup. You're answering female. THQ doesn't like those.

Really? ._. I sometimes really wonder why I'm in this hobby...

Posted By Naenia on 06/24/2007 11:37 PM
Um... Call me slow or something, but after I check "Female" it just shuts me out... Is there a reason for this?

Let me guess, I'm doing something wrong?

Well you could start by telling the truth!  Everybody knows girls don't play these games.

But seriously.  They're probably assuming the majority of people checking "Female" are just trying to screw up their results.  So basically the first question should be read as: "Are you just f**king with us?"

Wow.
...
I mean, wow.

C'mon people! Screw whether you're female or not - everyone just answer male, 25, and how much Necromunda totally rules.

Together we can make X-Necomunda Alliance a reality!!!

BYE

Is there a link for the lazy in between firedrills?

Posted By Geddonight on 06/22/2007 6:03 PM
[D]iscriminators like those are terrible. They want to exclude half the population from the survey? Nothing like ignoring a potential slice of consumers.

....

Let's see... apparently 34 is the cutoff. Apparently they don't want to see how old people are who play their games, and thus cannot cater to them. Amazing.

This pretty much describes GW's corporate attitude in general.

If they actually showed respect and catered towards the veteran gamers who introduce new players into the hobby and spend $10,000+ each, they might be doing a whole lot better.

Pown3d!  That "survey" HAS to be a joke.

Where's the candid camera? 

 

I really think gamer girls are the ones getting totally screwed by stuff like this. While gaming in general is male dominated, I know a lot of women who are into gaming. The silly thing is that almost no one caters to them. I was discussing miniatures with one of them recently and she was going on a tirade about how difficult it was to find a fantasy themed miniature of a woman in armor (and by armor, she meant real armor rather than the chain mail / plate bikini). And she?s right. Next time you are in a place that sells miniatures, look for one. If you find one, look for another. After 2 (if you can find 2 in the first place) it starts to get really hard.

Ignoring the female opinion can cut you out of a lot of business. While listening to it and possibly incorporating a few ideas can net you a whole new audience. Look at ?The Sims?. That game has/had the biggest female following of any game I?ve ever seen. It also had quite a large male following (although I think most of the guys I knew that played it lost interest faster than the women, but still). I think one of the main reasons there are not more women who are into gaming is simply the lack of selection for things that appeal to them. Most women I know who are not ?gamers? but who occasionally play video games, have one or two games that they like and they stick to those. Why do they stick to those rather than seek out the wealth that the gaming industry has to offer? I?m willing to bet its simply that most of the games out there are just don?t appeal to them and they know that effort put into finding a new game is, more likely than not, just going to be a waste.

So while there is a lot of money to be made from making games that guys are going to like, I think that toning them to be a bit more palatable to women will pay big dividends in the end. If you want those dividends, then you are going to need to know what the women want.

And the new rule in 40k: the negotiate stat...

Seriously, The Sims was nice and all, but I wasn't a game goddammit! I had it "played through" in no time. Me, my father and my brother were Superheroes, Manager and Super chef, our wives were all superhot, we lived forever and had super successfull kids, my House was a Castle and I didn't know what to do anymore.

But I agree with the steel bikini issue. I mean, seriously, how cool was Alyx in Half Life 2. Just an "ordinary" gal without atomic boobs and deadly flip kicks to boot. Go natural!

Greets
Schepp himself