Reading this, I guess now I understand why the survey is so long: to discourage people from completing it multiple times to manipulate the result 
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This
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Yes WE should ask OURSELVES those questions. Absolutely! But a survey purporting to be a customer satisfaction survey about a specific game should NOT be asking those questions. Heck, they shouldnāt even be asking us about games on platforms this game isnāt even on. That survey was about a LOT more than just Conan Exiles and Iām pretty sure we all know it.
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Twenty years ago I would have disagreed with you. Women were still rare in gaming even ten years ago and how we approached games was traditionally markedly different than how men did. And, of course, Trans and other non-stereotypical folk were not considered at all.
However, times have most certainly changed and there is, in my experience (which is considerable when considering how long Iāve been gaming which goes back to original D&D when I was all of eight years old so by now Iāve seen a LOT! LOL), a much smaller divide between players and their goals based on any sort of gender considerations when we are talking about them all playing the SAME GAME. At least this was the ONE question that had an opt out and maybe every single one of us should use it. I wish I had as I admit I just automatically copped to being a chick! LOL And then we might have taken the time to take them to task about that question AND all the other personal questions a GAME SURVEY really has no business asking, respondents being anonymous or not.
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I just want to thank ignasius for clarifying that the survey is not āforced or enforcedā in the last thread that was closed.
Because i was really wondering about that.
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Of course it is not āforcedā, but a majority of us who declined to finish it would love to give our feedback to the game and gaming in general.
We are just not willing to give all of our personal information and bare our physiological/emotional souls to a third party survey.
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i guess what i mean is , what would a forced or enforced survey beā¦? and what ever that is , why does it need to be clarified that its not that?
Seems to me there were some other issues that could use some clarification, just imo
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The main issue I have with it stems from the clearly non-CE monetization based stuff. Personally, Iām rather nonplussed with roadblocks a game will throw in the userās path if one decides to go a fully free-to-play route as I donāt measure my progress in a game against that of others. If it takes me three times as long as someone else to achieve something without paying for convenience then Iāll take that time provided the game itself is fun enough to play. Itās just kind of worrying when these questions start getting so openly asked while there was really no history of it from the company prior; especially when it comes after a buyout.
I love Funcom to bits. My own personal views are really that as far as content goes the stuff they come up with is second-to-none with the only real rival being how Turbine crafted LotROās world. The attention to detail with Howardās work shows just how knowledgeable and how much love there is for it from folks like Joel and the investigation missions in TSW are still some of the most clever and devious things Iāve had to solve. The execution of said content and ideas though tends to come out in varying degrees of trainwreck, whether that means the caboose has jumped the tracks a teeny bit or stuff is on fire and strewn out in a field. Regardless of that, I love them.
Itās just that sometimes you get orders from on-high and thereās nothinā for it. When new management comes in and starts putting out feelers, one can tend to worry about what those orders may end up being.
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Yeah I was really worried that if I didnt fill out a quetionary about if Iām happy or not, I wouldent be able to play Conan. All credit to ignasius for clearing that part out. I just clicked the first answer in all of the ones that had nothing to do with the game, and my age is aparently 111
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Iām just back from the survey and i see your point. Long, boring, inadequate, iām pretty sure there isnāt anymore newbies in this game so all the questionning like āādo you feel you have enough informations about your journeyās objectivesāā are so pointless. āāName recipes/totems that are hard to findāā we all have all the recipes, but itās not worthed spending time to find the ingredients for what it givesā¦almost frustrating to answer.
But Conan is dead. Servers are empty since a longtime. On PS right now about 50 % american servers have 0 players, only a very few have decent amournt of players. So they may be looking for a new platform on pay to win style. Itās the new eldorado. I spent 2500 $ on rise of empire before i put an end on it. So easy and the surprise comes with the Visa bill. I wonāt do it again.
That game had great potential but they decided to listen hardcore players instead of all the players who left.
Conan is not dead, and neither is āConan is deadā trope:
If ā and thatās just an āifā ā Funcom is considering more aggressive monetization, itās definitely not because Conan Exiles is dead or dying. Itās either because someone there wants more money flowing in, or because they want to add stuff for which they canāt pay otherwise (e.g. server moderation).
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Maybe Funcom could introduce a different sort of monetization program: collect, say, 10 cents (because of Tencent ownership, of course) from each person saying āConan Exiles is deadā. Theyād be rolling in cash before they know it, and have enough funding for whichever project they want to make next.
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Thatās the best solution ive heard so far. Beat the data collectors at their own game , still give feedback = everybody wins
Good luck. The questions are structured in a way that allows them to detect answers that are internally inconsistent. Too many of those in one survey response record, and the whole record will get filtered out of the final results.
Data collection is neither a new, nor a low-profit business.
There is more than one way , as per his suggestion it corrupts their data not pertaining to the game.
That fine, then fucom can use their forum to collect feedback.
your speak for your time , i will speak for my own. itās not a waste imo
no your telling me im wasting my time doing something i deem worthwhile
ok sorry for the misunderstanding
Happy to see Iām wrong, i didnāt know there was so many players on PC. If I add up worldwide players on PS last evening I could swear it was under a thousand. Video games are changing, we used to pay for a final product with free patchs to fix the bugs. Since a few years they offer packs. And now itās free to play/ buy by the piece and theyāre making huge money with that. Pretty sure they want a piece of that. On ROE chief of my clan spent over 20k $, i spent 1500 $ on my first game and i was above average but like top 50 on 500 players in our map. And just a couple of years ago i thought a 70 $ game was expansive ! I donāt know how much money cost maintenance and development of Conanās game but they need to take the money from existant players or bring new players.
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