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I took the survey. Good luck to your wife getting this all compiled, it will be an interesting study.

I also found the money question a bit disheartening. Actually calculating how much money I've spent over the past 15 years was quite a shock!

Well constructed survey.

I was a bit thrown by the monetary question as well. Though mostly because I wasn't sure if I should include only non-electronic gaming, or things like computer upgrades, consoles, TVs, etc.

If the survey and the research are about non-electronic gaming, I guess that the question about money was referred to the money we've spent only in non-electronic gaming stuff.

I've spent how money on toy soldiers?!

You have no idea how long I've been avoiding that question for...Still i knew the SoB's would be expensive. Thrice-damned Space-nuns mutter, mutter...

Done. Noticed on her e-mail that she's going to Middle Tennessee; small world since I too spent some time there. I concentrated on their flight program but unfortunately ran out of money and changed my major; great campus though.

Erasoketa wrote:If the survey and the research are about non-electronic gaming, I guess that the question about money was referred to the money we've spent only in non-electronic gaming stuff.

It was preceded by a question about electronic gaming, which was the source of my confusion.

Done. Fascinating survey. It's rather weird to actually have to look at my hobby in such an analytical manner.

Travis

Done.

Let us see the results when it's over.

I didnt like some of the q's like how often do you visit your store to attend tournes/play etc. well I only go there to buy stuff so i visit it monthly but I never play there.

anyways I took and was honest.

I submitted mine.

Nice survey but it did make me think a little too hard about life in general.
Perhaps time to re evaluate!

Not any options for 'serious' boardgames or even chess/backgammon/poker etc which I would definately class as gaming.

Submitted mine.

combatmedic wrote:Finished. I had a good hard look at the amount of money Iv spent on my gaming over the years... died a little inside.

QF the melon-fething T

Done!

The last questions may seem like I'm taking the mick, but they are all the truth.

Definitely publish the results!

Also submitted. It wouldn't except "5,000 years +" on the age though so it might not be as accurate as it could be....

Done as well

LOL, blocked by my work. Will have to wait til I get home.

It's looking like there are quite a few of us 20+ years of gaming posting in this. We might be throwing the curve a bit off.

I've got about 7 years in tabletop-and when I went to tot it up, I've probably spent about 3,000 dollars of my own money on 40K between the ages of 11 and 18.

Although I couldn't place any results (I'm under 18) I found the "How many friends do you have a little hard to calculate exactly changing it to an approximation may be better (However I know nothing about psychology so don't listen to me)

Well, I'm not old enough yet, but it'll be interesting to hear the results, if you're allowed to tell us.

Done, glad to help.

Centurion.

Shinigami wrote:Well, I'm not old enough yet, but it'll be interesting to hear the results, if you're allowed to tell us.

What he said
It will be amusing to see the average money spent

Answered the survey

As a sociology student myself Im rather interested in the results! Please let us know when it is finished

Interesting stuff.

I guessed at $1,000 a year spent on gaming over the 25+ years I've been gaming, though I suspect that that is a low estimate. I regret very little of that $25,000, certainly compared to money I've wasted on stuff like clothes, or beer.

No option for polyamory in the "marital status" section? It'd be good to have "current number of girlfriends" box to fill in, just to demonstrate once & for all that gamers do have pretty damn good social lives.

Done.

It's scary how much money I've spent on wargaming alone, nevermind TCGs and so on >_>

Wow! Thanks for the awesome amount of feedback guys! Over 400 surveys from dakkites!

As you can imagine most of the survey's filled out thus far have been submitted mostly by wargamers.

Do any of you have any suggestions as to where else we could post this survey to get some different perspectives (CCG players, Roleplayers, larpers, etc?)

And thanks again to all those who contributed already.

Dark reign 40k

Mostly Dark heresy and Rogue Trader players over there.
Hope it helps

took it

though the exact number of friends was a bit strange. Easier if we could have had a zone 10-20, 30-40 ect


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Ian Sturrock wrote:Interesting stuff.

I guessed at $1,000 a year spent on gaming over the 25+ years I've been gaming, though I suspect that that is a low estimate. I regret very little of that $25,000, certainly compared to money I've wasted on stuff like clothes, or beer.

No option for polyamory in the "marital status" section? It'd be good to have "current number of girlfriends" box to fill in, just to demonstrate once & for all that gamers do have pretty damn good social lives.

I dont even want to think about how much money I have spent on beer at 41 lol

Took the survey. I'm planning a paper on gaming as a community-forming activity, so I've sent your wife an email.

Other places to submit it to:

www.boardgamegeek.com for boardgamers

www.rpg.net for tabletop RPGers (and a lot of LARP/LRPers read the relevant section too).