Survey about HayDay

I saw the survey but it froze and when I logged in again, it was gone. I do want to do it if I can.

I don’t do this for a living, but I’ll offer my perspective. I had an acquaintance at one point, who was a dev for another, smaller game studio and I remember him asking us at a get-together, things like what we liked to do in games, what made us want to spend more/less time playing, things like that, when he was trying to design a game. They wanted to make it so that the most people possible will want to play it as much as possible, so it would hopefully become successful. So that was part of his job, to figure that kind of thing out in putting together the game they were working on. There’s a whole psychology associated with games. I think most of us are aware of that, so I’m probably stating the obvious.


So to me it looks like Supercell has hired a company to analyze what people like/don’t like about the games they play in order to have some more direction for the HD team beyond what SC staff can gather from feedback on social media and forums. Putting it in game allows ALL players, on social media or not, to contribute and be heard if they choose. The feedback is all in one place, rather than trying to piece it together from four or five places. It’s probably a bigger project than SC can do internally without taking away time from working on the game as they already do.

From what I recall as I read through the survey intro, it seems like the sort of thing they gather data about and then share the trends with SC. They won’t get a detailed report that says “MommySnooks plays this and that”. It’d be more like 70% of HD players also play “x” type of game, 30% play “y” type of game, etc. As we get farther into the survey it, might give info that players like “a” and “b”, they don’t like “c” and “d”. Then in designing new features the HD team can try to incorporate more “a and b” and use less “c and d”.

It’s less of a privacy thing in terms of us personally and more of a tool to help them understand their players as a whole, better than they currently do when doing whatever analytics they usually do.

People who have more experience in this and or Ice/Chris might be able to add more of an explanation.

I just need to know if there’s a link to where I can get into it again, and I wonder if there’s a way to save progress if I get interrupted in the 10-15 minutes it takes to do the survey. My wifi has been fussy the last few days for some reason.

I would take the survey but don't see it anywhere.

donkeyfan I would never be mad at you or anyone for choosing to do, or not do a survey, whether that choice is the same as mine or not. 💕

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That's the point I meant before. Even the first question had nothing to do with a game experience related to HayDay. I didn't continued since I expected similar questions which I didn't want to answer. Of course is this a very personal decision. However, as the survey is present - mostly - I'm curious about your opinion. Those might differ, because I remember the thread about the movie tickets. It was emotional and blunt, especially concerning the handling with personal data sharing to 3rd parties.  

Thx for your contribution so far. 😘

kanta

Also thanks to you for your input. Yes, you're right, maybe I'm a little bit too anxious, I don't know. It's only a feeling, I can't explain it.

And a very valid feeling! Always go with your gut.  

- go with your gut
I don't think anyone is overreacting.
Also Hay Day may be looking to lowering anxiety.
I sure hope so.
But no one is comfortable being analyzed.
It was hard for me to do.
Regrets? Maybe a little...

I do hate it when survey creators prearrange certain choices, none of which apply, and then you get stuck (and they miss out on other possibly useful data).  Sometimes I’ll just enter something random, to get on to the next points, but then that skews the answers/accuracy of the data they’re trying to get.  

I will not be doing the survey if it is there when I log in.  I think you are right to be hesitant DonkeyFan.  I don’t give any more information than I have to.

Really, I tried the survey. First, it loaded very slowly, then the first question about the games had me go back some decades to complete (who needs other games than hay day?), then I answered questions about my character and then the page content wouldn’t load.
So I pressed the forward button in the end and suddenly the questions came very fast.
Again, slow loading... this survey needs as much patience as progressing in hay day.
What I learned: press the forward button.
The longest 10 minutes of my life!

Same here. I do still have the link on a tab in my browser so I’ll keep trying.

I had it on my iPad, but it disappeared before I could click it.

I wonder whether they can tweak and re-release it to those of us who had trouble, since so many people couldn’t get it to load. My screen kept freezing, too. I thought it was just my device, but from the comments here, apparently not.

I am among those for whom the survey didn’t function. I clicked on the link and tried to enter a game other than Hay Day as an answer to the first question. The survey froze, though I tried several iterations of the name. Oh well. From my perspective, poor backend survey design. I was curious about the actual content of the survey, so was interested in what you all had to say about it as you actually got to see it. 😂