Hey everyone!

As part of my dissertation which investigates Steam users' engagement towards Steam, I'm conducting a primary research regarding the topic.
I would greatly appreciate if you could spare a few minutes to complete this survey. It takes approximately 10 minutes to complete. I will not use the seperate answers, only the answers as a whole.

To motivate participation, I added 4 giveaway links to the end of the survey (don't rush through the survey though).
The games are the following:

  1. Yesterday (key)
  2. Space Run (key)
  3. Rise of the Argonauts (key)
  4. Tomb Raider GOTY Edition (Steam gift)

Also, those who bump this thread will be put on my whitelist. I have also made a giveaway for those on my whitelist, the game is Fancy Skulls

All the giveaways will be live until 16th March.

Thanks for reading and (hopefully) completing the survey! :)

Update1: Wow, guys, I am surprised and also very flattered by the fact how many of you completed the survey and bumped the thread! :) Also, I forgot to mention a few things (I had to rush to attend one of my classes):

  1. I removed the persons from my whitelist before the survey was introduced, but do not worry, I will add them once the survey is over.
  2. Those who bumped the thread will stay on my whitelist after the survey is over.
  3. I am NOT a Valve employee. :)
  4. Sorry if some of the statements made you feel uncomfortable or was hard to understand. I adopted them from academic studies.

Update2 There has been more participants than I expected, there are more than 890 answers, a big THANK YOU to all of you! :) However, as always, there have been some trolls who completed the survey only for the giveaways but fortunately this will not affect the results as I will screen them out.
I don't want to sound insatiable but it would be nice to reach 1000 respondents (because it's a nice round number and for segmentation purposes it's better).

Update3 The survey link will be available until 1 March, after that you will not be able to complete it. The results are expected to be shared in late March (as I will have to translate it from Hungarian to English and I also have a lot of things and projects to do mid-semester :( ) I will post the link in this thread and also create a new thread, so if you do not want to bookmark this thread, you can still come across with it. Once again, I would like to thank all of you to complete my survey! :)

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I was half way through the survey and then the questions made me feel very very uncomfortable.

What's with all those weird questions?

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Are you referring to the entire page of statements that you have to rank 1-7? I wouldn't say they made me uncomfortable but they definitely became cumbersome. The multiple rephrasings of a similar idea got annoying and I eventually stopped taking the survey. I hope others can get past that since the subject matter is interesting.

8 years ago
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Yes that, and uncomfortable in a sense that it suggested gamers have a very disturbing form of attachment to Steam.

8 years ago
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Yeah, most of these statements were adopted from academical surveys and suited to Steam. It didn't mean to make anyone feel uncomfortable :D

8 years ago
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Good luck with your dissertation. I guess you have to get your own results but in case you don't know these pages: Statistics, Hard- & Software Survey.

8 years ago
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Yeah, thanks! :) I used them to form the last section of the survey and also will use them for testing whether the sample is representative.

8 years ago
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Bump

8 years ago
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Bump! Finally a survey that doesn't region restrict me!

8 years ago
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I wouldn't be surprised if you are secretly working for Steam and using the dissertation as a cover.:P

Either way, good luck, I gave honest answers for you.

8 years ago
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No, I'm not :D (But I guess, I would say the same if I was). Thanks :)

8 years ago
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Bumpity for completing the survey =) Also yes, I would like to peek at the results ;)

8 years ago
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Bump

8 years ago
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Already have the games but completed your survey anyhoo

8 years ago
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bump and completed

8 years ago
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goodluck for your study bro! if you dont mind, can you share the result of this survey with us ? :D

8 years ago
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Yeah, definitely ;)

8 years ago
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Best of luck with your thesis! Personally, I don't really feel all that strongly about Steam as a social platform. It's an easy way to buy, download, install, and play games. The amount of hatred in Steam forums kind of killed the social side for me, though.

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It's a gaming platform. Kids and people with undeveloped social skills are bound to be plentiful :P

8 years ago
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bump

8 years ago
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Finished, bumping!

8 years ago
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Bump nice

8 years ago
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bump!

8 years ago
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Bump for whitelist and good luck with the survey!

8 years ago
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Bump! Good luck with your thesis!

8 years ago
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bump

8 years ago
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Bumpty bump

8 years ago
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Heh, mind games...
My brain thought it's Rise of the Romb Raider giveaway here =D
And I already finished Tomb Raider GOTY I actually won on SG =d
Thanks for a test,it was pretty interesting =P

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bump :)

8 years ago
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Done and bump

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bump

8 years ago
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Your question about steam client login frequency is a bit ambiguous. I tend to only log in when the client wants to update itself but I'm guessing that's not the answer you're looking for.

Edit: Also, Exists in account, Exists in account, Exists in account, Exists in account. /cry :D

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You have a point here. I didn't think about it, thanks for the feedback ;)

That's the "problem" with having many games :D

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also note you were mainly focused on steam and the steam client; one question in particular stood out from the others since it referred to the content (ie: games)
pointing this out because with the how do you feel about using steam type questions some people may refer to their feelings about steam itself and some may refer to their feelings about the games they are playing

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bump for neutral feelings

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