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Motivation for playing esport and online games

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Jarusik29
Profile Joined February 2020
3 Posts
February 11 2020 22:34 GMT
#1
Dear esport and online gamers,

I am a psychology student at the University of Prešov in Slovak Republic. I would like to ask you about voluntary participation on my research on the motivation for playing esport and online games. It´ll help me with my bachelor thesis. The questionnaire doesn´t take much time.

Instructions -> - you can participate, if you are more than 15 years old,

you can participate, if you actively playing online or eSport games, at least 1 year and if you speak English very well,

If you play professional esport choose professional esport player,

If you play esport but not professional, more just like your hobby choose professionalized player,

If you play online games and you don´t play esport choose casual/recreational player

Thank you for your time

Link ->

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1PK6MNMqdFqtlDgkgxQSdG6bmHCF3_AgE49YTyDA5FBs
Nakajin
Profile Blog Joined September 2014
Canada8989 Posts
Last Edited: 2020-02-11 23:20:06
February 11 2020 23:19 GMT
#2
Hey, if you ever come back here, I started to do the survey but stopped because I hit a problem. You should have put some question about watching esport not only playing the games! As such someone like me who almost never play games nowadays, yet watch Starcraft almost everyday can't really answer in anyway that wouldn't screw the results. For example, it would lead me to say that I play games less than an hour a week, yet think very frequently about my gaming "sessions" which isn't really the right way to describe my engagement with esport.

It's especially important because the common knowledge (be it true or not IDK) is that a lot of people interested in esport put a lot more time into watching the game than playing it, especially in the Starcraft scene.

Also, you should put more time in the phrasing of your questions. I imagine english is not your first language but there's quite a lot of conjugation errors and the phrasing not always clear. Also don't be shy about putting more info than less in your questions.

Oh and finally, be on the right side of history don't capitalize "esport", it's a generic noun not a trademark. (although that one is an ongoing battle)


Making good survey is hard, anyway good luck with that.
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NewModel
Profile Joined November 2010
Germany124 Posts
Last Edited: 2020-02-12 09:01:21
February 12 2020 09:00 GMT
#3
@Nakajin If you want to measure something about participating in Esports as an Player, pro or Casual, you don´t want Data of Spectators. Thats a differenft Object and would lower the quality of your Data. If you want to measure something about effects of beeing an active player in anything, they are the one you have to ask. But i´m also having a Problem. I play Starcraft hardcore from Time to Time, but with Month or Years between. But maybe thats also not measurable.
Nakajin
Profile Blog Joined September 2014
Canada8989 Posts
February 12 2020 12:27 GMT
#4
On February 12 2020 18:00 NewModel wrote:
@Nakajin If you want to measure something about participating in Esports as an Player, pro or Casual, you don´t want Data of Spectators. Thats a differenft Object and would lower the quality of your Data. If you want to measure something about effects of beeing an active player in anything, they are the one you have to ask. But i´m also having a Problem. I play Starcraft hardcore from Time to Time, but with Month or Years between. But maybe thats also not measurable.


They are hard to separate tho, my exemple maybe isn't the best because it is heavily balance on one side, but for exemple if someone plays 15 hours a week and watch 15 hours a week, then it become hard to tell what is influencing what. If the weekend before your big exams you decide not to play any games, but instead stay up all night watching The Internationnal, then you can turn back and say you never sacrify your professional life for esport, but you kind of did anyway. Same about lying about play time, if that person say to his parent after the exam that he didn't play any games before, very intentionaly keeping out that he watched esport all weekend long, it still feel to me like it's on the same spectrum.

IDK, I'm just saying I had a hard time trying to answer the question truthfully, maybe a simple "how many hours do you watch esports each week?" would have solve the problems, just as a way to indicate the potential overlap of the two.
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Shuffleblade
Profile Joined February 2012
Sweden1903 Posts
February 12 2020 12:44 GMT
#5
Well it says in the text you can participate if you are actively playing online or esport games. If you don't actively play, if you played actively before or similar then you cant answer the questions since they are about your current status of being an active player. Also he or she is interested only in the aspect of actively playing the game, not about spectators.

It really makes sense, if someone was doing a scientific study about how soccer players are effected mentally by playing the game it would be very clear that playing soccer and watching soccer are two different things that have different psychological effects. Mixing them is actually really bad in this context, scientifially.
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Nakajin
Profile Blog Joined September 2014
Canada8989 Posts
Last Edited: 2020-02-12 16:21:11
February 12 2020 16:12 GMT
#6
On February 12 2020 21:44 Shuffleblade wrote:
Well it says in the text you can participate if you are actively playing online or esport games. If you don't actively play, if you played actively before or similar then you cant answer the questions since they are about your current status of being an active player. Also he or she is interested only in the aspect of actively playing the game, not about spectators.

It really makes sense, if someone was doing a scientific study about how soccer players are effected mentally by playing the game it would be very clear that playing soccer and watching soccer are two different things that have different psychological effects. Mixing them is actually really bad in this context, scientifially.


Hum, interesting. I certainly didn't want to say that the two should not be separated, but I feel like they are much deaply intertwined as a phenomenom than the soccer analogy.And as such it would be interesting to have at least a trace of it in the data.
It's pretty clear that doing sports and watching sports are pretty different, for esport IDK, they are both mostly never-ending solitary video-game based activity. When I used to play a lot more SC2 it wasn't particularly separate, they were both solitary activity and I had quite a similar bargening and lying attitude toward them. (Such as, I didn't watch X tournament, so I can serve myself to a few ladder games today)

Of course the actual activity of playing game/watching them are quite different.. Maybe I didn't think enough about this before beeing condesending lol.
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Last Edited: 2020-02-12 16:27:12
February 12 2020 16:27 GMT
#7
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