Gaming Experience - Audience Perspective Survey

This is an academic survey designed to analyse audience perception of gaming experience and how that changed in the past few decades. The survey is anonymous and the results will be only used as a reference upon writing a scholarly paper, and will be destroyed upon completion of said paper. If you decide to continue, you consent to your results to be taken into account in this study. Do you consent to the data given in this survey to be used as a reference for a paper?

1. When did you first start playing videogames?

2. What is your favourite genre?

3. On what platform do you usually play?

4. Do you ever replay a game? If yes, what are the factors that make you want to replay a game? If no, why do you not want to?

5. If yes, does that experience change your views of the game? Why?

6. Do you prefer enclosed games (games where the story starts and finishes within the same instalment), or series of games (games where the story/lore is spread throughout different games and DLCs)?

7. How much attention do you pay to the diegetic elements of the game (soundtrack, voice acting, graphic) when playing?

8. What is your favourite thing about gaming?

9. Think about a game you played when you were young: what factors would you say defined your experience of the game?

10. Think about a game you played recently: what factors would you say defined your experience of the game?

11. Did you ever play a game after having seen a number of GIFs, cutscenes, and commentaries of the game?

12. If yes, how did that influence your experience of the game?

13. Did you ever play a game after having heard the soundtrack of the game?

14. If yes, how did that influence your experience of the game?

15. Do you create or consume GIFs, soundtracks, music videos, cutscenes, and memes after having played the game? Do you follow youtube channels or discord servers discussing the game during/after playing the game itself?

16. If yes, how does that influence your view of the game upon replay?

17. Have you ever attended a concert based on a game (say, Final Fantasy, or Skyrim)? Would you go to one, if given the chance? Why?

18. Looking back at the first few games you liked, what do you think changed the most in your experience as a gamer?

19. What would you bring back if you could?

20. What do you think improved overall?

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