I'm a University student writing my thesis on Minecraft and user engagement! You could help a lot by filling in a survey and answer a few questions regarding your engagement with Minecraft (16+)
I'm writing a thesis on how community servers influence a player's engagement and relationship with Minecraft as a whole. You don't have to play multiplayer to fill this in, as data from singleplayer players are also very useful
In this survey you're basically asked your opinion on community servers and how much you play on them (or if you play on them at all!), and then the survey tries to measure your engagement with Minecraft as a whole. The results will be used to see if there is a relationship between activity on community servers and someone's relationship with Minecraft. The overall goal of the study is to contribute to understanding the effect of decentralized community servers on the success of a videogame.
This survey is completely anonymous, UNLESS you want to participate in a Steam giftcard giveaway as a reward for filling it in because I'll need some way I can reach you (preferably just a link to your reddit profile!) and what region you're from or what currency you use so I can send the right card. I'll be giving out 3 steam giftcards and sending them around May 30th.
Though if you just want to help with my research and stay anonymous, then you can just answer with "no" when you get asked if you want to participate.
Participants under the age of 16 are not eligible to participate due to legal and ethical concerns.
You can go to the survey here:
https://q.surveys.utwente.nl/5ZMCyy2XZkaBehHY6pqJtw
If you want to help, please share it with other people! Thank you so much.
I should probably mention that this has literally no affiliation with Mojang or Microsoft