Hi all, thanks for the replies and for the interesting discussion.

Unfortunately I cannot go into too much details on the survey instrument at this time.

Asking the same kind of questions is due the validity of the data. The questions themselves are based on earlier research on virtual goods.

Hello everyone!

(tl;dr: We're bunch of TF fans doing academic research on free-to-play and would like to hear your opinion through our survey. We work as games researchers in a Finnish university)

We at the Game Research Lab (University of Tampere, Finland) are conducting research on free-to-play games. As a part of our research, we are looking respondents for our free-to-play survey. We are especially looking for people, who play Team Fortress 2 or Facebook games, but any free-to-play gamer is welcome to answer as well.

By filling up the survey, you will contribute to the research as well as help the games community to produce better free-to-play game experiences. The results of the survey will be published in the academic field of games studies.

Answering to the survey takes about 15 minutes and you have a chance to win a 50 euro prize of your choice from Amazon.

You can find the survey here https://elomake3.uta.fi/lomakkeet/5977/lomake.html

Feel free to share the link with your friends!

Thank you for your time!

Janne Paavilainen
Project Manager
Game Research Lab, University of Tampere, Finland
http://gamelab.uta.fi

To mods: Hopefully I'm not breaking any rules here.

To respondents: Yes, there are questions that seem quite similar to each other, but that is just how the science rolls on this one. The necessary evil, if you will.