I was talking about the survey since it was brought up earlier. In regards to the team's questions, I searched your Patreon just now and reloaded the survey but could not get past the first page. I would "retake" the survey to provide specific examples, but of course it would not change what I said. (It might be cookie or IP related that's preventing me from getting past that first page.) Regardless, you'd have access to the questions in front of you and knowing that you all are an intelligent lot (and I do mean that--I don't always agree with you guys but I think y'all are intelligent folks), I'm sure once you take a critical eye to the survey in consideration to what I said I'm positive you can discover at least several of those questions where they can be interpreted differently than what your team may have intended. Don't get me wrong though, I do not believe the results of the survey should be disregarded off-hand. Just be weary of what conclusions your team might draw from it is all; and be more concise on how you go about asking certain questions--especially those of the ever versus which choices do you typically choose or typically enjoy the most variety. For instance if I recall correctly (and bear in mind that I do not know exactly how these questions were asked as I do not have the survey in front of me), one or more of the questions had asked something along the lines of "have you ever seen/encountered/pursue such and such content?" (and at least one that included a list, I believe). How would I answer this question? I most likely answered these types of questions in the affirmative. And respectively speaking (and not to kink shame anyone), it doesn't mean I enjoy or even ever want to see certain content. Then there were questions like "what choice did you pick from among these in your playthrough?". What does that suppose mean? My first encounter for that, the choice I usually pick, what would I prefer, or what did I pick from the last time I ran across those choices in my last playthrough? I'm assuming your team was asking about the preference of what the player had chosen and enjoyed while also making the assumption that the player knows the results/consequences of that choice; however, I think I answered it in the way of the results from the last/current playthrough. For instance, the Orcaid stuff--it asked something along the lines of who did you back, if any? I answered without knowing how all of it would turn out (but also reflecting on choices that I would never even pick due to what I have heard of the content that I do not want to see from people around the web and not from the game itself). Rein above brought up an interesting result about which "Alexia narratives interest people [the] most". It "concluded" with Corrupting Alexia Yourself at 27.6% and Keeping Alexia Pure with 1.6%. Now, I do not recall how this one question or these series of questions were asked, but here might be case of drawing an erroneous conclusion from the result. I prefer keeping Rowan and Alexia faithful to one another and would likely take that path when and if the game is ever get to a more completed state. I like taking "pure" paths in games. However, I more than likely answered the in the former for the survey because one, it might be one of those ever questions, and if not, then because it had more content, or simply, I was curious to see it. It doesn't mean that's my preferred path in the game. Another was something like "did you kill your father-figure home village elder when Andras threatened to kill more people?". Perhaps somehow asking why the player did so or not would yield a better result. I certainly would have taken a different route to keep as many villagers alive which includes the elder had that option be available, y'know? Perhaps that last example wasn't fair, but the point is just be a little more thoughtful with the survey questions. I know I was probably rambling a bit, but I'm actually pressed for time (RL stuff so apologies for the block of text without formatting). I wanted to punch a post out since you guys asked and I didn't want to ignore it nor give you guys a copout answer of "I can't answer you since I can't load the survey" bullshit. Hopefully, this helps or satisfies to y'all's questions or provide insight to some of the sampling errors within the survey. Alright, stay awesome! +1 to everyone that read and made it through this post. Cheers!
Edit: Nothing is changed within the original post. Since I have a moment, I wanted to add don't let the perceived bias or perceptions cause to have the resulting statistics lie to you; if that makes sense. Just be cautious. Like how Rein commented, I'm sure in jest, about Helenya (sp?). Claiming her to save her shouldn't automatically mean that a noncorrupt Rowan did it to just to dick her. It's explained in game "okayish". I don't know; I should probably get back to RL stuff. Just throwing out some thoughts. No offense intended to anyone. People intrepret things differently and the team might be too close to the project to see certain aspects; thus, I'm glad you guys do polls.
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