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THE GREAT WARGAMING SURVEY 2022

It's time again for our yearly look at the wargaming hobby.
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https://gws2022.paperform.co/

Just filled it in. Really should copy and paste year on year as answers change not at all.

I admit my answers haven't changed much though my estimated 2022 spend may be down a bit on last year.

Edward

Never quite sure what this survey achieves.  Only being able to enter three periods you play is daft.  I play 7 on a regular basis.  Similarly you only get to state three periods you never play.  There are plenty more than that on the list.  I also have no idea how much I will spend this coming year - it will be what it is.  How such a skewed sample can be useful is unclear.

The limit to 3 things is pretty annoying, particularly when a lot of the options are so specific. Seems unnecessary as those who are just super focused on one or two periods will just select those anyway while perhaps disguising the fact that there are those with much broader interests. Or they should at least have the ability so select broader categories, like "All of history" since they have fairly generic sci fi and fantasy ones and that could cover a huge range of things even apart from the GW stuff.

Yes, in the final, "anything you want to add?" box I fessed up to the answers largely being fiction because of the stupid limitations.

It's tosh ... but interesting tosh so I do it every year.

"Lies, damned lies and statistics." - attributed to Benjamin Disraeli by Mark Twain

"I have the numbers, tell me what you want them to say" - me to several of my bosses!

 

QuoteThe limit to 3 things is pretty annoying, particularly when a lot of the options are so specific. Seems unnecessary as those who are just super focused on one or two periods will just select those anyway while perhaps disguising the fact that there are those with much broader interests. Or they should at least have the ability so select broader categories, like "All of history" since they have fairly generic sci fi and fantasy ones and that could cover a huge range of things even apart from the GW stuff.

Absolutely.  I left out WW2 which is at least as important a wargaming period as any of the others I play.  In fact I spent three years on a 1940 project to the exclusion of everything else more or less, but no way to reflect it, unless I drop out ACW or Napoleonic for example, which are just as important to me.

I'll leave it out this time round.

Never found it any good the last time.

Got more important things to think about.

I filled it in for the last time, I don't identify as a man I am one... FFS...

I've filled it in with 10mm and 1/72 historicals as the only way to go, this forum as my main source of inspiration, and as much vitriol against 28mm and the mainstream mags as I could squeeze into the answer constraints.    

Quote from: DecemDave on 04 August 2022, 01:15:45 PMI've filled it in with 10mm and 1/72 historicals as the only way to go, this forum as my main source of inspiration, and as much vitriol against 28mm and the mainstream mags as I could squeeze into the answer constraints.    

That's not far off what I said!

Complete & utter waste of time.

Just like all those employee satisfaction surveys we used to do.

Management: "How can we improve morale and product delivery?"
Workers: "Pay people a decent wage, hire enough people to do the required work, have clear and concise requirements to work to, and target deadlines that are achievable."
Management: "Yeah, we meant like yoga or something . . ."

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QuoteI filled it in for the last time, I don't identify as a man I am one... FFS...

I identify as a meat popsicle ... but sadly that wasn't an option

And they've lumped us in with the (*&^%(^%(&^% Ozzies

Quote from: paulr on 04 August 2022, 11:22:32 PMAnd they've lumped us in with the (*&^%(^%(&^% Ozzies

Could have been much worse, they could have lumped us in with the French