PC Gaming Survey - Help Needed

Elcs

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Apr 27, 2002
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Reported for spam. Awaiting my free ipad.

Wait.. done. Happy to help!!!
 

Gibsons

Lifer
Aug 14, 2001
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Took the survey. Some grammatical suggestions follow.

Fix the English:
How much money do you spend on Gaming System?

If you capitalize "System" the first time, capitalize it after that, and maybe change "do" to "did" or change "System" to "Systems" and remove the "the.":
Where do you buy the Gaming system?


Change "will" to "do," and add a question mark:
How will you rate the importance of following product features in the Gaming system

Change "will" to "do":
How will you rate the influence of following factors in your purchasing decision of Gaming System?

Remove question mark here:
Click on the Gaming System Design you would like most in your living room?
 

simonizor

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Done. The suggestions above will really help your survey feel more professional.
 

Gibsons

Lifer
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socalboarder: If it's possible and you can find the time, would you mind filling us in on the results?
 

Terzo

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Dec 13, 2005
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Done. Some of the questions were difficult because I would answer differently based on my "gaming system." I couldn't care less about storage on my ps3 and I didn't purchase it to use for movies and music. However, my PC is much more multipurpose so storage and media playback become much more important.

Finally, did anyone else find all of those cases unappealing? I wouldn't use any of them.
 

Fardringle

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Oct 23, 2000
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Finally, did anyone else find all of those cases unappealing? I wouldn't use any of them.
Agreed. I want a "none of the above" option for that question. I just narrowed it down to the ones that might not make me want to throw them away immediately.
 
Dec 28, 2001
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Done.

But if I may . . . when you say "how much do you spend on a gaming system", what are you referring to? How much $$$ am I spending on average per system, or on the hobby of gaming as a whole? And more importantly, in what time frame? Per month? In an annual basis?

Because if I have several systems (which I do) and say I spend ~$200 per system per year, it might skew your data because I don't quite know what you're asking (which I didn't).

Yeah, I wouldn't want any of the cases shown either, I think they're a little too EXXXXXXTREEEEEEEME for my tastes.
 

Texashiker

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In the question

Where do you buy the Gaming system?

Home built should be an option. I am willing to bet that the majority of gamers build their own systems.

While at wal-mart, best buy,,,,, I have yet to see a real gaming system for sale.
 

CVSiN

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Jul 19, 2004
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completely worthless for the most part..
does not address that most gamers do not buy "ready made" gaming or HTPC PCs

Most real gamers build there own as off the shelf PCs flat out suck component wise.

tried to fill it out but cannot give answers as the questions are biased towards grandma and grandpa that buy their systems off the shelf.
 

Cerb

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Aug 26, 2000
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"How much money do you spend on Gaming System?"
This question could really be clarified. All total systems used for gaming, as well (hey, nethack is a game, and my laptop can run it! :))? FI, here's my situation:
I made my main desktop without gaming in mind. Later, I added a nice video card.

Since the first ~$1300 was with no gaming in mind (and wasn't spent all at once), how does that play in to the cost? If I had bought it all new at the time I added a nice video card, the total cost would have been well under $1000, as well. PCs can make this simple question ambiguous.

Graphics quality and 3D capability are basically one in the same. All hail digital video ICs.

Click on the Gaming System Design you would like most in your living room?
None of the 3 options. 2-5 are duplicates, as far as I can tell, all of them clearly being black ATX tower cases, with lighting. Their differences are pretty much nil, and for all I know, case 1 might look like a couple of them, if a pic was taken in the dark.

Here are a plethora of examples of what one might put in a living room:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...me=Silverstone
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...1&name=Lian-Li
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16811129054

Finally, on the importance/ordering bit, wouldn't be valuable to game catalog size as an option to prioritize?
 

Gibsons

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