Survey: online game relationships and love

[Aurelia1234]

IT's ALL ABOUT LOVE...

Hi, we are looking for motivated ONLINE ROLE-PLAYING GAMERS who want to participate in this survey about online & offline love. It will not be used for commercial purposes. There are no wrong answers, only personal opinions. Completing this survey will take only 10 minutes. There are 7 pages and on each page you can see where you are in the survey. Please fill in all of the questions, because only then the results are useful.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dEh6ZDR3bUpRMUc0c0FoaWhMWnJkdGc6MQ

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Thank you so much for your time.

Kind regards,
Ghent University (Belgium)

[Usdrothek]

I see a lot of questions referring to one's 'guild'. I'm guessing this is aimed more at WoW style computer gamers rather than real roleplayers.

[CroakerDogBoy]

I get the feeling someone here is phishing. I didn't click on the link to see what they are expecting, but it does smell bad to me.

[Aurelia1234]

No, I am just a student at the university of Ghent (Belgium) who is desperate looking for gamers who want to fill in my survey.
If I don't find enough participants, I will fail for my thesis..

So please don't hesitate to fill this in

Thanks a lot!

[Usdrothek]

I get the feeling someone here is phishing. I didn't click on the link to see what they are expecting, but it does smell bad to me.

Maybe foolishly, I did. Appears to be an online form.

Still aimed at computer gamers, rather than gamers on computers.

[CroakerDogBoy]

Did it ask for an email address?

[Usdrothek]

No, but I didn't go all the way to the end, just the first two pages.

I wouldn't have proceeded if it asked for any details.

[CroakerDogBoy]

Ok. Though I'm not fond of people joining and popping in to make one post that asks us for something, even if it's harmless.

[Usdrothek]

We agree on that.

[Dame Eldgeth]

I did the survey and I think it is harmless. 
OK, going for one girl's opinion.  Does anyone remember the execrable thesis that moron did in the 1980's at the University of Minnesota (my alma mater and I hang my head in shame) about how gamers have no real life, they are dirt bags living in their parents basement, they only find love through gaming and it's all based on fantasy, gamers can't tell the difference between real life and make believe...very nasty stuff.
Has anyone else heard of this thesis?
Well I lived and gamed in Minneapolis at the time, and knew a lot of the people who had been "interviewed" for that thesis. The guy was welcomed into several gaming groups and he deceived them as to what he was doing.    When his thesis was released, my friends were appalled how their comments had been taken out of context and generally screwed with so that twit could prove a point he had arrived at in advance. To sum up, his thesis was crap and he was reviled by the Minneapolis gaming community, and is to this day.
So anyway, I did the entire survey.  Some of the questions were a bit confusing (I think it's a  language gap) but I was happy to put my experience out in the wide world that no, I am not a moron girl, lost in la-la land, and yes I can tell the difference between real life an fantasy, thank you very much.

[Usdrothek]

Thats insulting to the intelligence isn't it?

Can't tell the difference between real life and fantasy? What rot.

[Dame Eldgeth]

Yes, it was insulting, but remember the times, at least here in the USA.  Satanic cults were all the rage.  Many police departments around our country has specialist units looking for ritual murder black magic cults, which were supposedly everywhere.  It was literally a witch hunt.  And that lead to the "playing Dungeons and Dragons causes serial killings" stories in the newspapers.
So that lead to this moron's thesis where he set out to prove that people who roleplay are lost in fantasy and can't cope with reality.

[Usdrothek]

We had the "playing Dungeons and Dragons causes serial killings" hype here too.