Pantisocrat

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This survey will hopeully give us a bit more insight into where you're from, what the most popular age demographic our games are played by, where in the world some of you live and also if you like one game more than the other!
I can't think of a reason for asking about this stuff that doesn't involve advertising or sale of data to advertisers.
 
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I can't think of a reason for asking about this stuff that doesn't involve advertising or sale of data to advertisers.
It would tell the development team which direction they should go with in whatever game replaces Melody and DMD.
Neither game will last a whole lot longer, so they can use the responses to best decide which direction to go in, the age of the MC and locations for events, languages to include and whether it should be a game like Melody, or one like DMD.
 

armion82

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It would tell the development team which direction they should go with in whatever game replaces Melody and DMD.
Neither game will last a whole lot longer, so they can use the responses to best decide which direction to go in. One like Melody, or one like DMD.
Both game are not that different.Well if he change the MC with mother or daughter that's another story:)
 
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But the attitudes of the MC are very much different.
The MC in DMD is very unsure of himself in a lot of ways, whereas the MC in Melody has quite a bit of confidence.
There are lots of subtle differences.

Also, the fact that they do not gather your email address means that you will not be getting spam emails for answering the survey, so there really is no harm in answering it, and helping the dev team out.

If people are that worried about suspected marketing crap, clear your cookies after answering, and there will be nothing left of the survey in your system to influence advertising.
 

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Hey I enjoy both games and didnt even bother following the link for the extra renders.(Ok sort of guessed they would end up on here anyway). More than happy to help the devs., given me plenty of pleasure so why not?
 

Pantisocrat

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It would tell the development team which direction they should go with in whatever game replaces Melody and DMD.
Neither game will last a whole lot longer, so they can use the responses to best decide which direction to go in, the age of the MC and locations for events, languages to include and whether it should be a game like Melody, or one like DMD.
Not having done the survey, I don't know if that's how they phrased it, but questions like "What languages should we offer/What age should the MC be/What locations would you like to see?" all seem to get at that stuff more directly than "Where are you from and what age are you?"

It's not a big deal, but I remain skeptical that survey is purely for in-house purposes.
 

armion82

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Not having done the survey, I don't know if that's how they phrased it, but questions like "What languages should we offer/What age should the MC be/What locations would you like to see?" all seem to get at that stuff more directly than "Where are you from and what age are you?"

It's not a big deal, but I remain skeptical that survey is purely for in-house purposes.
There is no way to make 100% sure from the language you use,where you from.After all you can be in Japan but speaking french.
I hope we get more french love in the game soon:)
 
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Where they are from, tells them where the players live, and that also tells them the languages spoken.
Some people speak more than one language, so if you ask them to check a box for languages spoken, you would get that info, but have no idea what their native language is.

In the US, you have a mix of languages being spoken by different people, but the native language is English. The people living in the US have to learn English to get by on a daily basis. The same goes for other countries. So you get the most important question answered when you ask where they live because that tells you the language they can speak and in most cases, the person responding would be telling you their native language with that answer.

There could very well be some very minor marketing in that survey, but without your email, you will never notice any of it, because they can't send it to you.
 
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Where they are from, tells them where the players live, and that also tells them the languages spoken.
Some people speak more than one language, so if you ask them to check a box for languages spoken, you would get that info, but have no idea what their native language is.

In the US, you have a mix of languages being spoken by different people, but the native language is English. The people living in the US have to learn English to get by on a daily basis. The same goes for other countries. So you get the most important question answered when you ask where they live because that tells you the language they can speak and in most cases, the person responding would be telling you their native language with that answer.

There could very well be some very minor marketing in that survey, but without your email, you will never notice any of it, because they can't send it to you.
150% correct there...No asking for email and MalwareBytes accepted the site, so no funny business going on with it. If on;y wanting to see pics then they are already posted here. Though Melody discussion and pics should be done on it's own thread
 

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Maybe they're simply mapping their fan base before their next game, I dunno. Two games with older MC and very young girls/women, maybe they want to change things up.
 

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can someone post the bonus images from the survey monkey? i completed it (doesn’t take long) but i’m on an iphone and it won’t let me copy/paste the links.
i'm semi d-route and d gave f good time.


i thought melody was older but on that bonus pic she looked just a bit older than d in dmd.
 

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Maybe they're simply mapping their fan base before their next game, I dunno. Two games with older MC and very young girls/women, maybe they want to change things up.

Well, my answers certainly won't help to push things in a new direction, then . . . :whistle:
 

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I can't think of a reason for asking about this stuff that doesn't involve advertising or sale of data to advertisers.
In today's internet world, there are lots reasons to be skeptical, so I definitely get where you're coming from. But really? You can't think of a single reason that a game developer might want to know more about the demographics of his audience for reasons that don't involve nefarious marketing purposes...? Cynicism at that level must take devoted practice.

Not having done the survey.....
LOL. Okay. Nevermind.

It's not a big deal, but I remain skeptical that survey is purely for in-house purposes.
If you think checking a few boxes on a SurveyMonkey survey will result in some kind of negative repercussions for those that participate.... then I'm pretty sure that there's literally nothing I can say that will sway your opinion, so all I have to offer is discount prices on tinfoil :)
 

atlas114

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if i was MrDots i think it would be very interesting to know who’s playing and enjoying the work i put out there.

maybe they’ll use it to form their next game maybe not. i don’t think they’ll stray far from their winning formula though lest they want to piss off 4000+ patrons who want to see a young drop dead gorgeous girl date them (aka the MC)
 
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