Gotta wonder what kind of video game would ask that kind of question
It was one of those surveys where it was just random. Like two surveys that were merged in a bad experiment.
The answer to that question would always be Rick Santorum, even when he isn't running.
lol. Oh wait! Dear god, he is coming, run!
A C student high schooler could come up with something better than those incredibly vague descriptions for a game.
Ok why so much hate for the survey. You should realize this survey is for people who never heard of mass effect. This is not for us, people on Bioware forum. If I never heard about ME it looks nice.
Ok why so much hate for the survey. You should realize this survey is for people who never heard of mass effect. This is not for us, people on Bioware forum. If I never heard about ME it looks nice.
It is completely obvious that the survey is desperately fishing for great marks for the survey, to make it look like a good game. Its basically subliminal advertising.
I mean seriously, one of the questions is literally "It seems there will be the right amount of combat." How exactly does one answer a question when the question has nothing concrete to do with the subject matter?
It is completely obvious that the survey is desperately fishing for great marks for the survey, to make it look like a good game. Its basically subliminal advertising.
Yes it's like politics poll witch candidate leading. Nothing close to reality. 
Yes it's like politics poll witch candidate leading. Nothing close to reality.
Unfortunately, this is exactly how reality works.
If you didn't care, you wouldn't have posted.
You're stating that every person saying that she doesn't care about something, just for having voiced her opinion, automatically cares for the thing.
Which is an utterly stupid reasoning. If it what you say is true, then Tommy Lee Jones really cared for Harrison Ford's innocence in that watery tunnel.
People, don't you believe it... 
You're stating that every person saying that she doesn't care about something, just for having voiced her opinion, automatically cares for the thing.
Which is an utterly stupid reasoning. If it what you say is true, then Tommy Lee Jones really cared for Harrison Ford's innocence in that watery tunnel.
People, don't you believe it...
This actually makes it a better movie.
I suddenly find myself overcome with the feeling that I am about to throw myself face-first into an inflatable pool swarming with hungry piranhas but eh, it has been a good run, might as well do it. WOOO!
More than anything, the image/screenshot included in the OP seems to be of a survey intended to, in general, broadly gauge the immediate, overall association a person would have when presented with the description of a certain scenario. It does not seem to be meant to provide specific information or identify how likely the customer in question would be to purchase a particular product; rather, it seems to be geared towards something more along the lines of "here is this Mass Effect thing and it has this scenario. What is the first thing that immediately pops into your head and, taking that into consideration, how much do you agree with the following statements?" In other words, think of it more as something along the lines of questions a therapist might ask you, like "Tell me the first thing you think of when you think of the color blue".
From what I can tell you, practices like these may possibly be used in order to ascertain what kind of overall "image" or "reputation" a product has across the sample of people queried (where this sample could, for instance, be comprised of representatives of the targeted customer group) - what associations it generally invokes. In that respect, this is, in essence, not entirely unlike the question of "What does N7 mean to you?" that was alleged to have come up during those super-secret surveys/meetings at some gaming conferences. The purpose of this particular survey could generally be to use the information about the overall perception of a product to determine how best to market said product. These surveys could give the marketing/advertising department a better idea about the possible answers to certain important questions, such as, e.g., how many people view Mass Effect as more of a shooter? How many as more of a space exploration game? How strong are these views? And, if we market it in a certain way, will that be surprising or potentially alienating to our targeted base (as the product could be perceived as having strayed too far from the general understanding of the brand by the customer), or will it effectively trigger those reactions we want triggered (because it touches the lizard brain of the customer in all the right places and all the right ways)?
Tl;dr - It is a marketing/advertising/communication thing. I would not worry about it.
The answer to that question would always be Rick Santorum, even when he isn't running.
I dunno. Ol' Foamy doesn't really make me think of anything remotely edible.
I suddenly find myself overcome with the feeling that I am about to throw myself face-first into an inflatable pool swarming with hungry piranhas but eh, it has been a good run, might as well do it. WOOO!
More than anything, the image/screenshot included in the OP seems to be of a survey intended to, in general, broadly gauge the immediate, overall association a person would have when presented with the description of a certain scenario. It does not seem to be meant to provide specific information or identify how likely the customer in question would be to purchase a particular product; rather, it seems to be geared towards something more along the lines of "here is this Mass Effect thing and it has this scenario. What is the first thing that immediately pops into your head and, taking that into consideration, how much do you agree with the following statements?" In other words, think of it more as something along the lines of questions a therapist might ask you, like "Tell me the first thing you think of when you think of the color blue".
From what I can tell you, practices like these may possibly be used in order to ascertain what kind of overall "image" or "reputation" a product has across the sample of people queried (where this sample could, for instance, be comprised of representatives of the targeted customer group) - what associations it generally invokes. In that respect, this is, in essence, not entirely unlike the question of "What does N7 mean to you?" that was alleged to have come up during those super-secret surveys/meetings at some gaming conferences. The purpose of this particular survey could generally be to use the information about the overall perception of a product to determine how best to market said product. These surveys could give the marketing/advertising department a better idea about the possible answers to certain important questions, such as, e.g., how many people view Mass Effect as more of a shooter? How many as more of a space exploration game? How strong are these views? And, if we market it in a certain way, will that be surprising or potentially alienating to our targeted base (as the product could be perceived as having strayed too far from the general understanding of the brand by the customer), or will it effectively trigger those reactions we want triggered (because it touches the lizard brain of the customer in all the right places and all the right ways)?
Tl;dr - It is a marketing/advertising/communication thing. I would not worry about it.
I agree its a marketing thing, but for different reasons (not good ones).
In bold: The problem is that they are basically giving the survey taker any dessert person wants, and then asking them if they like dessert. And psychologist never really ask questions like that.. at all.
As someone who has done a bunch of surveys I can say they ask all kinds of seeming weird and pointless questions. I did a survey where I was asked what president candidates are most like gas station store food.
Mass Effect Andromeda will be postmodern, guys. Hey, Angol Fear, come here, look, it's postmodern!
It is completely obvious that the survey is desperately fishing for great marks for the survey, to make it look like a good game. Its basically subliminal advertising.
I mean seriously, one of the questions is literally "It seems there will be the right amount of combat." How exactly does one answer a question when the question has nothing concrete to do with the subject matter?
Exactly, they are looking for buzzwords they can advertise the game with. If there's a strong resonance towards the premise and the idea of exploration that's how they'll market it.
"Mass Effect Andromeda -- Draw your gun, but realize the situation is bigger than you estimated, take your car for an explosive ride, and save humanity!
Mass Effect Andromeda: Shoot things in the face!
Coming March 2017!"
I'm on morphine right now lol xD
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Gosh, EA is so poorly managed.
Not really, EA only care about one thing:
MONEY.
Not really, EA only care about one thing:
MONEY.
Electronic Farts in a nutshell
I dunno. Ol' Foamy doesn't really make me think of anything remotely edible.
'Not remotely edible' is a perfect description of gas station food. 
That's almost certainly what it's for. These surveys exist to help the PR people market the game.It's from the leaked and possibly true EA Survey for Andromeda -- it's official and it's so poorly put together and zero thought put into what they're trying to do with it, except if it's just some PR/Marketing buzzword user-analysis, to see which generic platitudes hits home best with mindless consumers.
In case we forgot.Why are people who swore never to buy another mass effect game even here right now?
To me it looks like the survey is created to be catered to people who are new to the Mass Effect franchise, which is why it seems so generic. If I had to hazard a guess, it's to try and decide on which aspects to focus on when formulating a marketing strategy for Andromeda.
That's what I'm hoping.
I got a survey from EA a few days ago, and since I had heard about both this one and a survey about a possible Sims 4 Pets expansion, I wanted to check it out.
Turns out my survey was for Plants vs Zombies: Garden Warfare 2. WOMP WOMP. The questions I got were seemingly useless too.
These are marketing surveys, though, so you have to remember that they may not have all the info about the actual game, and also are trying to get ideas on how to advertise without giving away too much. So I guess they're in a tough spot.
Also, if any EA marketing people are reading, please send me better surveys. Thanks in advance.
To me it looks like the survey is created to be catered to people who are new to the Mass Effect franchise
The purpose of why reputable companies do a survey is because they'd like to have as many honest opinions possible, because they want to know the market not only in what it sells, but also in which people's tastes are involved, and in terms of efficiency this could help you a lot to design the product you want to sell or to correct it if there was a certain misconceiving about what you think is good and appreciable.
This survey, true or not, is not made to obtain honest opinions but to suggest people to have the idiotic one that a frivolous company wants them to have, so that particular company can already make its market just by instilling the desire of the product they're suggesting. In fact, it's really a form of a passive-aggressive advertising, nothing more, nothing less.
In case we forgot.
I got a survey from EA a few days ago, and since I had heard about both this one and a survey about a possible Sims 4 Pets expansion, I wanted to check it out.
Turns out my survey was for Plants vs Zombies: Garden Warfare 2. WOMP WOMP. The questions I got were seemingly useless too.
These are marketing surveys, though, so you have to remember that they may not have all the info about the actual game, and also are trying to get ideas on how to advertise without giving away too much. So I guess they're in a tough spot.
Also, if any EA marketing people are reading, please send me better surveys. Thanks in advance.
Explains why EA's advertising sucks so much.
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