Any polls/questionnaires I’ve seen for the DE era have been huge surveys that take me an hour or two to complete because I’m thorough and there are a lot of questions and room to give a lot of custom answers (which I appreciate). It’s great they ask for so much info, but they can be pretty overwhelming and a huge time commitment for adults… especially when there is no ‘save and continue later’ button and you think carefully about each and every answer you’re giving
- I’m thankful for them because they’re so detailed, but I did have at least one time where I spent like an hour on it and lost all my work somehow because there was no ‘save progress’ capability and the web form crashed or something. Not a great feeling
And sometimes it’s nice to just have short surveys.
I think they’d probably benefit by making some short, 5, 10, or 15 minute polls – to survey players about various things devs are curious about at the moment, or to hear suggestions/issues from people who don’t post on the forum. (And please don’t make this a survey where if you answer Question #3 with a “yes”, it all the sudden lengthens the survey by 10 minutes by adding 20 more questions… and then if you answer “yes” on one of those, it is lengthened by another 20 minutes with 50 more questions.)
Having the polls/surveys inside the game would be great, in order to reach a nicely varied audience (ranked players, campaign players, skirmish players, AoE Insiders, non-Insiders, forumgoers, non-forumgoers, etc.). Subnautica lets you press F8 and submit feedback or bugs at any time you want while playing the game! Incredibly convenient! I love that tool. I don’t know if they do anything with it, but I always thought that was an awesome way to do it. I’ve submitted several bugs, issues, and suggestions that way there. (I don’t like that they limit the report to only like 150 characters or something very short, though. I think it should allow for at least double the size of what they have)