I am interested to know you better

I am currently in my 3rd year distance learning MBA at the Warwick University (UK), and i have chosen for my project 'Entrepreneurship in MMORPG'. For my project, I will need to have a representation of the population playing MMORPG before interviewing some entrepreneurs. It would be very helpful if you could complete the survey, even if you are not an entrepreneur, thank you very much.
There are no mandatory questions.

http://www.kaysstore.com/survey


PS not sure that i am in the correct category, but i did not found better one, and it is a desesperate call for the survey

to much rl information wich is tbh, non of ur business

*skip*

There are no mandatory questions. And, if i want to have an idea of the population in terms of statistics it is better to know.

looks like a demographics marketing survey to me. i did however complete it

1) SL isn't an MMORPG
2) It's not "playing" for a lot of us.

The rest I filled out. Cheers and good luck with your "project" *cough*

Show me some evidence that you are a student and not a marketing firm, and I'll consider fillling it the survey.

Sorry, dear, I'm under a vow.

Best of luck, but I'll pass. Too much RL information.

Mari
(Isn't there someting in the TOS about asking for RL info? Prob'ly dun apply here though)

please see below, and you can also contact Warwick at: Tel: +44 (0)24 7652 4102



WARWICK BUSINESS SCHOOL

MBA PROGRAMMES

Project and Dissertation Proposal Form


The purpose of this form is to ensure you have thought through the task you are undertaking in terms of both time and content. It is also to enable us to identify a suitable supervisor and examiner. If the following questions do not seem to apply to what you wish to do please feel free to alter them in any way. You must, however, address the following key points: Area of Study, Teaching Area, Objectives, Proposed Methodology, Availability of Information, Literature, Value and Schedule of Completion.

1 Your Details

Name Kieger Stéphane ID Number 0362031

Contact No. ------- Date 26 October 2006

Programme Mode DL EVE MOD FORD

Client/Sponsor/Organisation

2 Area of Proposed Study
What will be the likely title of your dissertation?
Note: this can be modified as your work progresses


Entrepreneurship in Massive Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game (MMORPG)




3 Teaching Area
From the MBA as a whole, which area is most relevant? Please tick one area only:

Marketing & Strategic Management

Accounting & Finance

Operational Research & Information Systems

Operations Management

Industrial Relations & Organisational Behaviour

Other (e.g. Centre for Small and Medium Enterprises) – please specify:









4 Proposed Supervisor (optional)
If you have already spoken to a member of faculty about your project idea and they expressed an interest in being your supervisor, please specify below.

None



5 Objectives
What are the major specific objectives of your project?
Think about these: do not include only an all-embracing 'woolly' sentence.

Two main objectives:

- Can individual entrepreneurs make money in MMORPG on a long term base?
- Is there a good match between what is proposed by the game and the aspiration of the entrepreneurs in order to make money?



6 Background Information
Why have you chosen this topic?
How does it relate, for example, to your company and your job?

I am involved in two MMORPG, Entropia Universe and SecondLife.



7 Proposed Methodology
How do you intend to carry out your project? Will your approach involve generating new data or using existing data? What frameworks, theories, tools etc encountered so far in the MBA programme would you see as being of particular relevance to your project?

I proposed:

- to gather information from internal sources (e.g. financial reports) of Linden Lab and MindArk, creators of SecondLife and Entropia Universe respectively,
- to do a quantitative research with a self-completion questionnaire in order to get data from the players in both games,
- to do qualitative research with in-depth interviews with people who have put some real assets in those game (e.g. one player bought an asteroid for $100000!).

From all those data, I will analyze the factors that brought success(es) to some online entrepreneurs, and evaluate if those successes are only early successes, or long-term viable businesses in a very turbulent environment (PEST and SWOT analysis of MMORPG businesses). Also it will be interesting to analyse the behaviour of those online entrepreneurs in order to identify if they are of a new type.



8 Availability of Information/Literature
Are library facilities adequate? Will the organisation(s) involved allow you access to the data you need? What are the 3-4 key references (e.g. texts/journal papers) for your project idea?

Different academic papers have already been published about the MMOPRG. Nevertheless, those papers are specifically focusing the Asian market, and mostly on MMORPG teenagers (e.g. World of Warcarft). However, those papers are good for starting the project.

M.D. Griffiths, M.N.O. Davies and D. Chappell, Online computer gaming: a comparison of adolescent and adult gamers, Journal of Adolescence 27 (2004) 87–96

I. MacInnes and L. Hu, Business models and operational issues in the Chinese online game industry, Telematics and Informatics, article in press (2006)

S. Gondal, Internet and technology new venture development using Soft OR,
European Journal of Operational Research 152 (2004) 571–585

S. Baek, Exploring customer preferences for online games, Int. J. Advanced Media and Communication 1 (2005)

D.P. Forbes, Are some entrepreneurs more overconfident than others?, Journal of Business Venturing 20 (2005) 623–640



9 Value of the Project
What will be the benefits of successfully completing your project? What will be the anticipated value to your client?

The results and the conclusion of the project will be published in papers in order to inform the community of those games. In case the project concludes that it is possible to make money on the long-term, or that this new interface is a new kind of trading, promotion, it will be interesting to alert existing firms about this potential.

There are no mandatory questions. And ppl are free to let there email address it they want to be interviewed or not.


PS: Project Entropia community was less 'sceptical', let us be less paranoiad!

Anonymity and privacy are highly valued here. And we get a lot of stuff thrust at us that turns out to have hidden agendas, commercial and otherwise. It is not "paranoia;" it is hard-bitten experience. SL is probably not fruitful ground for a survey such as yours. Maybe you should just stick with Entropia.

I do not agree with you, but i respect your opinion.

I am not asking you your name, your address, your fax number, your telephone number, etc ... only an email address if ppl want to be interviewed with a questionnaire which is more entreprenership oriented.

I just need to know the demography of the population in order to compare it to the results of the articles i ve mentionnened (to see if it is the same population, if we see the same trends), if ppl consider themselves as entrepreneur, and finaly they are 100% free to give me their email address, and if it is too much, they can still contact me via im or via this forum. That s it, it is not going so far. Now, if you do not want to help me in my project, dont do it!

If you like, you can contact me in-world, and I will answer your questions. But don't expect anything even vaguely resembling truth if you ask about RL.

And yes, I do consider myself an entrepreneur in SL.

Kay, you're such a busy little bee!

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Both the survey and your business look completely legit to me, tho the research certainly also benefits your business planning as well, lol! Btw, on your business website, I missed where you say how much your monthly services will be, you may wish to make that more prominent. Best luck!

Yay! Self-concerned commerce and greed rears its head here. Hey, good. We can deal with mere, simple greed here in SL, however cleverly clothed. Greed we can understand. We are used to itl We deal with it every day; it is like having our Wheaties in the morning. People with ideological or other irrational or non-SL agendas or phishers (which this person may well not be - I'm not accusing, just trying to be complete in what I say, because it goes beyond this particular case), are a more difficult matter. You don't know where the hell they are coming from!

Only The Paranoid Survive!

Oh Kay, just answered your questionnaire on Entropia

feel free to im me

Har, I think we can say that you are definitely a survivor, by your own criteria Just because a person is trying to set up a business doesn't mean they are the patron saint of greed. For all we know, the business may even be another class project. I looked at the fee schedule and privacy policy, and I don't think Stephane will be buying a mansion in Cannes on SL profits anytime soon! That said, over time a good clientele could evolve, and it could grow into a nice little SL income stream. Again, best luck!

2 remarks:
- the survey is still anonymous (if i am not wrong, but with the negative replies i am receiving here ...) !
- yes, i have a very small biz in SL (and effectively, i will need to wait about 200000 years before buying an house in Monaco (prefered to Cannes ). If you can relate the questions of this survey to the my little biz, tell me, i am really interested.

You can be sceptical, ok, but i still need to do my project if i want my MBA. The result will be published.

"I am interested to know you better". Every time I use that line at a bar, I get a drink thrown in my face.

Yep, i should have wrote: "Little MBA student trying to have responses to a questionnaire".