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    master thesis - survey about playing visual novels TRY 2 - Please Retake

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    9 hours ago, EcchiOujisama said:

    A little more information on my answers (if you care...)

    I read every single Feedback I get and am very thankful! Even though I can't change anything anymore. Every change would mean that I have to start anew and I already did that once, it (and I as a person) would be ridiculous!

     

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    I am FAR more apt to spend money on huge limited edition packages of games than I am a standard release or a download.  I'd much rather pay $200 for a soundtrack CD (or something of higher quality aimed at audiophiles), poster, autographs, 2WT dakimakura cover of a character I like, etc. than I am to pay $20-40 for a game alone.  I like having Japanese limited editions on the shelf in my library, and am quite comfortable with paying 200 USD/25,000 JPY or more if I feel I am getting value for my money.

    I thought about including a question for this but in the end I felt that this too specific (especially for my topic).

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    I selected your interest in Japan option a few times, but I would say it less that I am interested in Japan as much as many things that interest me happen to originate in Japan.  While I like New Japan Pro Wrestling, watch anime, play galge, practice kendo and would love to fight in Rizin FF now that there is a real spiritual successor to PRIDE FC, it is the existence of these things that draws me to Japan and learning Japanese, not the other way around as the answer choice seems to indicate.

    This is a very interesting point of view, I will keep that in mind!

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    I'd also describe my interest in VNs as a natural extension of my interest in anime, and there really wasn't a choice for that.  Tokimemo was the stuff of legend for us western otaku in the 90s.

    11. What motivated you to play visual novels? has the option "I enjoyed related or derivative works (e.g. anime, light novel, manga)" which comes  close I think.

    18 minutes ago, Okami said:

    in Question 14. What visual attribute is the most important for you? there should be Characters as option, or at least other.

    Yeah, I noticed. Shame on me (again) :(

     

    Thanks to everyone taking the survey (again) and providing feedback. Even though I can't change the survey anymore your thoughts allow me to present this stuff in a more sophisticated  way in my thesis!

       

    master thesis - survey about playing visual novels TRY 2 - Please Retake

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    Hi,

    it's me again. I received a lot of feedback from you and others and decided to revise my survey. This means I changed some questions and added new ones (stolen from a reddit survey...). I would be very happy if you could retake it! Sorry and thanks! In case anyone is wondering, I got admin approval to open a new thread. :)

    Here we go: https://www.soscisurvey.de/visualnovels

    Some information:

    1) hours played has now more realistic options

    2) Some questions now have more options

    3) Some questions still are single choice (therefore "mainly/mostly" etc.)

    Here is the main reason: For most questions I need a "Yes" and a "No" answer. Sometimes "Yes" has multiple options. The problem is that the survey only allows single choice or every(!) answer to be multiple choice. This means you could both tick one or more "Yes" answer(s) AND the "No" answer. This would invalidate the question or maybe the whole survey if it happens frequently. I'm also posting the survey to reddit/4chan etc. and to be honest I'm afraid that this would get abused. The only other option is to make two questions out of one which would inflate the survey and make it boring. I only did this for "how do you procure visual novels".  I thought about doing the same for the question how you consume it (japanese, englisch patch etc.) but oh well...

    4) I have  a question about the rating of visual novel translations. Most people said this is hard to answer because "it depends". So I added a new question to give you a chance to rate JAST, MangaGamer, sekai project, fan translation groups etc. In the end I realised that I would get a rating for the companies but fan translation groups is again a "it depends" (maybe use 9 = I don't know). As I can't delete the question anymore I will either only use the data from the companies or exclude the question alltogether from the evaluation.

     

    I hope you enjoy the new survey a little bit more than the old one and sorry that I couldn't fix all your concerns!

    Thanks!

    master thesis - survey about playing visual novels

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    Buh, so many questions to answer.

    Yes, the thesis is about cultural transfer but the cultural thing will be mostly covered with analysis of the games + interviews with translation groups etc. In the end visual novels is for much of the western world a really new topic so most questions in the survey are to get some general player data. But you are totally right, the questions about the amount played is badly designed. I wanted to clearly get a view of the new/casual players and set the bar very low, forgetting that 151h+ is set really low. But I will note your feedback here to mention that in my thesis. 

    To give you an idea about the thesis:

What might surprise you is the fact that it's written for the history
department. In the end you only need a professor that is cool with it.
Game studies (kinda a broad topic as many fields like history, cultural
studies, psychology, computer science, sociology etc. are applicable) are
becoming more and more common so it's fine. My focus is more or less pure
(historical) cultural transfer though as I can't do "game studies" on
visual novels without knowing japanese and being able to play them in the
original way. In the end you only need a usable focus and the right
keywords and you can write about any topic in any class.

So what am I researching?
1) The japanese culture has been "disrupted" from the west two times, 1853
and 1945, you see these bits in the japanese culture today too and in
these games.

2) Visual novels originate from western adventure games (~1980s), how did
they become typical japanese?

3) In light of 2) why are visual novels a japanese culture product? What
does this include? (e.g. japanese games for japanese people, japanese
development tools, special gaming culture (eroge) - also comiket etc.)

4) When parts of a countries culture appear in another country you can
talk about a culture transfer. How does this happen (mainly fan
translations, now also companies like JAST -> translation = culture
transfer)?

    master thesis - survey about playing visual novels

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    Don't worry, I'm happy for the feedback.

    In the end my professor and myself had the feeling that 26 questions are enough. Make it any longer and people won't answer it (laziness). It's also a question of focus. The drm question is an interesting topic but not important for my research (cultural transfer). Same with "why do you pirate". Also I'm playing VNs myself so I don't really expect some surprising answers (too expansive, too hard to get (japanese online store)).

    master thesis - survey about playing visual novels

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    11 minutes ago, Deep Blue said:

    done, although some questions were a bit tricky to answer, like the one that asks about how you get vns, you can only choose one answer... I do pirate vns and I also buy them from steam and from others sites too, why can't I make comments on that specific question? So yeah that answer is wrong no matter how I answer it, same thing goes for a few others....

     

    You are right, this is a tricky questions. I thought about enabling multiple answers but I think it distorts things as I can't weigh the answers. You answer with both but in reality it's more like 5 pirated, 1 bought on steam (just an example of course). So I changed it to how do you "mainly" get them. This cuts away information too but I'll make sure to mention that in my thesis. In any case thanks for answering!

    master thesis - survey about playing visual novels

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    Hi,

    my name is Stefan Ebner and I'm a student at the university of Vienna. Currently I am working on my master thesis (cultural transfer through computer games using the example of visual novels). For this reason I've created a short survey about playing visual novels (26 questions, should take 5-10 minutes) and I would be very happy if some of you could take it.

    https://www.soscisurvey.de/visualnovels

    Thanks a lot,

    Stefan Ebner

     

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