Survey about FF for Schoolessay

[Shusendo]

Hi^^
Maybe some people saw this Thread at the Allakhazam forum, but I didn't get as much replies as I hoped I would
So I'm posting this Survey on other FF-Forums as well
I'm a student from Germany and I'm writing an essay for school next year.
The Topic is "influences of FF (and other games) on your life and society". Therefore it would be nice if you could answer the following questions and post them here.
I know some questions can't be answered exactly but please try to nevertheless.
Thank you very much!

1) Country / State
2) Gender
3) Age
4) Occupation
5) Single/ Relationship/ Married etc
6) If you have a partner, does she/he play FF ( or other games) as well?
7) How old were you when you started playing games in general?
8) What Final Fantasy game did you first play?
9) When did you start playing FFXI?
10) What is your current Playtime? (I do NOT mean the time when you play, but the time you played FF altogether)
11) How many Characters do you have? And what's the highest level?
12) With how many do you "really" play? (not just use for Bazaar etc)
13) On how many days a week do you play?
14) Are there any days you're always playing? (like always playing on your day-off, weekends etc)
15) What's the average time you play? (time you leave character on for bazaar not included)
16) How often do you go online to check the Auction House or Plants (for example)? Or check ffxiah?
17) What was the longest time you ever played without a break? (Reason?)
18) What was the longest time you didn't play? (Reason?)
19) How often/long do you leave your Character on? (bazaar for example)
20) Were there any positive Incidents because of FFXI? (like making friends or got to know ppl in your city etc...)
21) Were there any negative Incidents because of FFXI? (like break-up/divorce, moved out etc...)
22) Do you have more reallife-friends or online-friends? With whom do you spend more time with?
23) How often do you go out with friends?
24) How many of your friends also play games?
25) And how many of them play FF?

[KoukiRyu]

Re: Survey about FF for Schoolessay

I'll volunteer to do this...this is kinda similar to that guy writing his "dissertation" or whatever, but at least you didn't ask for our names >_>

1) Country / State - U.S., Texas
2) Gender - Male
3) Age - 18
4) Occupation - School/Part time Job
5) Single/ Relationship/ Married etc - Single
6) If you have a partner, does she/he play FF ( or other games) as well? - N/A
7) How old were you when you started playing games in general? - 8, if I remember correctly
8) What Final Fantasy game did you first play? - FFX
9) When did you start playing FFXI? - Late January, 2006, lol I remember joining these forums just to read about FFXI XD
10) What is your current Playtime? (I do NOT mean the time when you play, but the time you played FF altogether) - I believe I hit about 54 days, I checked it a few days ago.
11) How many Characters do you have? And what's the highest level? - Three, two of them are mules though, and aren't leveled at all. My main is a 75MNK/37WAR, with various others leveled, currently working on WHM24, and SMN2, soon
12) With how many do you "really" play? (not just use for Bazaar etc) - Answered above, just one
13) On how many days a week do you play? - Everyday, but sometimes I'm only checking on my Chocobo/Gardening and logging right afterwards.
14) Are there any days you're always playing? (like always playing on your day-off, weekends etc) - Tuesdays and Fridays are my days off, so I'll be on from about 2pm(after school), usually late into the night.
15) What's the average time you play? (time you leave character on for bazaar not included) - I'd say about 5 hours is my average.
16) How often do you go online to check the Auction House or Plants (for example)? Or check ffxiah? - Never for AH, once a day for plants and Choco.
17) What was the longest time you ever played without a break? (Reason?)
18) What was the longest time you didn't play? (Reason?) - If I remember right, 14 hours, I was in a good party with people, and we each got about...5 or so levels, and everyone had stayed, so it was a good time for all of us(This was about at the 50 range, we had to move a couple times during our super long party @_@).
19) How often/long do you leave your Character on? (bazaar for example) - I avoid it if I can, cause I wanna check my play time far in the future and have it be accurate.
20) Were there any positive Incidents because of FFXI? (like making friends or got to know ppl in your city etc...) - Well, I haven't met any people I play with, but I have really good friends I've met on XI, and I talk to them on the phone fairly often.
21) Were there any negative Incidents because of FFXI? (like break-up/divorce, moved out etc...) - Other than my mom constantly telling me to "Get off that f***ing game." not really.
22) Do you have more reallife-friends or online-friends? With whom do you spend more time with? - More real-life friends, but lately I've been spending more time with my online friends than them, but there are kinda certain circumstances because of that. :x
23) How often do you go out with friends? - At least once or twice a week, when all of us can meet.
24) How many of your friends also play games? - All my friends play games.
25) And how many of them play FF? - All of them play Final Fantasy, but not XI, however hard I've tried to get them to play.

[Hantz]

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1) Texas, USA
2) Male
3) 24
4) Quality Management at a sewer pipe production plant (day) / musician (night)
5) married
6) she does not play FFXI, but will sometimes perform arbitrary tasks for me (check chocobo, check delivery box, etc.)
7) 4 or 5 years old (Colecovision, booyah)
8) FF1
9) Oct. 2004
10) approximately 22 days
11) 1 character, 0 mules. Highest level=30
12) Just the 1
13) 3-4
14) Friday night and Saturday night usually, but not always
15) 5-6 hours on weekends. maybe 15 minutes during the week, just to check on things and logoff
16) almost everyday, solely for that reason, just before bed
17) 9 months maybe, because I was having fun
18) 4-5 months in a row, busy with new baby, work, or just got bogged down
19) never
20) nothing apart from having RL friends join and play
21) got to work late after a long xp session the night before, nothing major
22) RL by far. Don't really have any online friends. I have, but they have all left at one point or another. And they were really more like acquaintances, talking only about game related things
23) play shows every couple of weeks, hang out maybe once every other week or so. I have kids though, so that makes more of a difference than shutting myself away playing games. Playing FFXI usually comes dead last after family, friends, and music (writing, practicing, playing shows)
24) I'd say 100% of my friends play video games of some sort, not necessarily MMOs though. Even my wife will melt the TV playing Dr. Mario.
25) 3 play FFXI with me, though only 2 regularly (static), 1 rather infrequently (WoW was his first love)

There you go.

[Shusendo]

Re: Survey about FF for Schoolessay

Whoa! that was a fast reply >.<
Thank you^^

[Murphie]

Re: Survey about FF for Schoolessay

You know, there are at least three or four other threads on this kind of subject asking almost the exact same questions around the forum. Save yourself the time of getting replies and just find the old ones! :D

[Mog]

Re: Survey about FF for Schoolessay

You know, there are at least three or four other threads on this kind of subject asking almost the exact same questions around the forum. Save yourself the time of getting replies and just find the old ones! :D

Indeed. Just do a search. Somebody did something very similar a couple of months ago.

[sevenpointflaw]

Re: Survey about FF for Schoolessay

1) Country / State
Houston, TX
2) Gender
Male
3) Age
26
4) Occupation
Self-Employed Web Designer
5) Single/ Relationship/ Married etc
Relationship, live with s/o
6) If you have a partner, does she/he play FF ( or other games) as well?
Yes she does.
7) How old were you when you started playing games in general?
6 yrs old.
8) What Final Fantasy game did you first play?
FF7
9) When did you start playing FFXI?
2004
10) What is your current Playtime? (I do NOT mean the time when you play, but the time you played FF altogether)
238days 23hours 53minutes
11) How many Characters do you have? And what's the highest level?
4, 75 White Mage
12) With how many do you "really" play? (not just use for Bazaar etc)
Play 1 of them.
13) On how many days a week do you play?
Usually every day.
14) Are there any days you're always playing? (like always playing on your day-off, weekends etc)
Wed./Sun. are the two days I am garunteed to be on.
15) What's the average time you play? (time you leave character on for bazaar not included)
4-6hrs/day
16) How often do you go online to check the Auction House or Plants (for example)? Or check ffxiah?
1-2 times a day
17) What was the longest time you ever played without a break? (Reason?)
8-10 hours. Nothing better to do.
18) What was the longest time you didn't play? (Reason?)
Month and a half. Just didn't feel like playing.
19) How often/long do you leave your Character on? (bazaar for example)
Almost always, even when working, afk, going out for dinner, etc.
20) Were there any positive Incidents because of FFXI? (like making friends or got to know ppl in your city etc...)
When I moved out of state for two years, I was able to keep in touch with the majority of my real-life friends, and still do stuff with them via the game.
21) Were there any negative Incidents because of FFXI? (like break-up/divorce, moved out etc...)
Not particularly.
22) Do you have more reallife-friends or online-friends? With whom do you spend more time with?
Definitly more real-life friends, though most also play FFXI. The get more of my time out of game, as well as most of my in-game time.
23) How often do you go out with friends?
Every 1-2 days.
24) How many of your friends also play games?
I don't think I have any friends that don't play games of some sort.
25) And how many of them play FF?
~15, most of which are on the same server, in the same linkshell, and live in the same apt. complex in real-life.

[bside]

Re: Survey about FF for Schoolessay

Whatever that essay is for, if you decide to take the data from old posts, make sure that you clearly state that fact. DO NOT say you did a survey to collect all those data, as there's a huge difference. (Of course, 3 posts above are indeed YOUR survey, so there's nothing wrong to say that for them, and whatever the answers you got at Allakhazam.)

To some extent, the reference section is the most important part of paper/essay, and must be correctly filled.

[Kyrial Arthian]

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1) USA, Florida
2) Female
3) 20
4) Currently Unemployed
5) Single
6) n/a
7) As long as I can remember... so I guess about 2 years old. XD
8) Final Fantasy VII.
9) October 29, 2003. (my 18th birthday!)
10) Last I did /playtime, about 292 days. That was a few days ago, but I haven't been able to get on lately.
11) 1 main character, 4 mules. Level 75 WHM.
12) 1
13) 7
14) Fairly often, yes.
15) Probably somewhere in the area of 8-10 hours a day; I never really keep track. XD
16) I check ffxiah.com occasionally, but I never go on FFXI just to check AH/plants/chocobo.
17) Probably something like 12-15 hours. Couldn't say for sure. As for reason... I dunno? I'm hardcore I guess. XD
18) About 2 months, because of connection issues.
19) Rarely.
20) Real-life incidents? Not really.
21) Well... my best friend and I have gotten into a few fights from time to time because she gets upset when I want to play instead of talk to her.
22) Online friends. And I spend more time with them.
23) Almost never.
24) Most, if not all.
25) FF games in general? Again, most, if not all. FFXI? Only 1.

[Macht]

Re: Survey about FF for Schoolessay

Ehh, sure what the hell.

1) Country / State - USA / Arizona
2) Gender - Male
3) Age - 25
4) Occupation - Marketing Systems Admin
5) Single/ Relationship/ Married etc - Single
6) If you have a partner, does she/he play FF ( or other games) as well? - NA
7) How old were you when you started playing games in general? - About 6yo
8) What Final Fantasy game did you first play? - FFIII (US Version, what's that V?)
9) When did you start playing FFXI? - October 29, 2003
10) What is your current Playtime? (I do NOT mean the time when you play, but the time you played FF altogether) - about 45 Days Total Playtime
11) How many Characters do you have? And what's the highest level? - 4 (Lv. 70)
12) With how many do you "really" play? (not just use for Bazaar etc) - 1
13) On how many days a week do you play? - Everyday
14) Are there any days you're always playing? (like always playing on your day-off, weekends etc) - Sometimes
15) What's the average time you play? (time you leave character on for bazaar not included) - 3 hrs
16) How often do you go online to check the Auction House or Plants (for example)? Or check ffxiah? - Everyday
17) What was the longest time you ever played without a break? (Reason?) - 8 hrs, I was entertained by the party I was with had no need to take a break.
18) What was the longest time you didn't play? (Reason?) - 1 month, Busy season of work to many projects with time deadlines.
19) How often/long do you leave your Character on? (bazaar for example) - not often, left it on 1 time overnight to bazaar that was about it.
20) Were there any positive Incidents because of FFXI? (like making friends or got to know ppl in your city etc...) - Got to know a few that were in my city.
21) Were there any negative Incidents because of FFXI? (like break-up/divorce, moved out etc...) - None that I can recall.
22) Do you have more reallife-friends or online-friends? With whom do you spend more time with? - More reallife-friends, spend about equal time with both.
23) How often do you go out with friends? - Pretty often, almost everyday.
24) How many of your friends also play games? - 5 of them
25) And how many of them play FF? - 2 of them

[Shusendo]

Re: Survey about FF for Schoolessay

uhm... either I'm stupid, which wouldn't surprise me, or the Surveys you talked about already being posted, don't have similarities with mine.....
I didn't ask if you use FF as an escape from reality(-.-) or ask hundreds questions about your races, nations, jobs likes and dislikes...
Or maybe you just referred to another post I didn't find ... Idk^^
But still I would aprreciate it, if you could take the time and answer the questions^^
Thanks

[Skoal]

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1) Country / State Mississippi
2) Gender Male
3) Age26
4) Occupation Sales Rep
5) Single/ Relationship/ Married etc Girlfriend
6) If you have a partner, does she/he play FF ( or other games) as well? NO
7) How old were you when you started playing games in general? 4 or 5
8) What Final Fantasy game did you first play? FF1
9) When did you start playing FFXI? Jan 04
10) What is your current Playtime? (I do NOT mean the time when you play, but the time you played FF altogether) 156~ Days
11) How many Characters do you have? And what's the highest level?1 main and 3 mules, 68 drg
12) With how many do you "really" play? (not just use for Bazaar etc) 1
13) On how many days a week do you play? 4
14) Are there any days you're always playing? (like always playing on your day-off, weekends etc) Not really
15) What's the average time you play? (time you leave character on for bazaar not included) 2-3 hours
16) How often do you go online to check the Auction House or Plants (for example)? Or check ffxiah? Just check things when I am already on
17) What was the longest time you ever played without a break? (Reason?) 8 hours, Guess I was bored
18) What was the longest time you didn't play? (Reason?) A month, Had to many RL things I had to tend to.
19) How often/long do you leave your Character on? (bazaar for example) I really do not bazaar.
20) Were there any positive Incidents because of FFXI? (like making friends or got to know ppl in your city etc...) Made a few friends, saved some money on not going out all the time.
21) Were there any negative Incidents because of FFXI? (like break-up/divorce, moved out etc...) no
22) Do you have more reallife-friends or online-friends? With whom do you spend more time with?RL x2
23) How often do you go out with friends?3 nights
24) How many of your friends also play games? About half
25) And how many of them play FF? 0

[Jugil]

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1) Country / State: USA / FL
2) Gender: Male
3) Age: 27
4) Occupation: Student/Research
5) Single/ Relationship/ Married: Relationship
6) If you have a partner, does she/he play FF ( or other games) as well? Yes
7) How old were you when you started playing games in general? Geez.. like 10
8) What Final Fantasy game did you first play? first American one
9) When did you start playing FFXI? Early 2004
10) What is your current Playtime? somewhere around 150 days
11) How many Characters do you have? 6 (including mules) And what's the highest level? 75
12) With how many do you "really" play? 1
13) On how many days a week do you play? Varies (maybe 3 average)
14) Are there any days you're always playing? No, too much else going on
15) What's the average time you play? 3-4 hrs
16) How often do you go online to check the Auction House or Plants? Daily (now with chocobo stuff)
17) What was the longest time you ever played without a break? 8 hours (good party)
18) What was the longest time you didn't play? a month (Ph.D. student so I get real busy sometimes)
19) How often/long do you leave your Character on? Mainly while I'm playing
20) Were there any positive Incidents because of FFXI? I have met a few friends
21) Were there any negative Incidents because of FFXI? Nope
22) Do you have more reallife-friends or online-friends? Real With whom do you spend more time with? depends
23) How often do you go out with friends? Once/twice every two-weeks
24) How many of your friends also play games? I'd say almost all
25) And how many of them play FF? 3 (including my brother)

There you go

[Jei]

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1) USA, California
2) Male
3) 26
4) Student
5) Single
6) No/No
7) 5-6
8) FF3 JP
9) 7-8
10) over 300 days
11) 8, 75
12) 2
13) 8
14) No
15) 2-4 hours
16) daily
17) 40+ hours. Hunt HNM, PT didn't end.
18) 6 months. Quit once
19) When trying to sell rare items, can leave bazaar on for over week.
20) Many
21) Couple
22) Equal
23) once or twice a week
24) 100+
25) 100+ (you mean "any" FF or 11?)

[DakAttack]

Re: Survey about FF for Schoolessay

Maybe PiNG should add an 'information for dissertation' collection script? Or maybe just a simple quiz script would do...