1. Age:
2. Gender:
3. Job/Education:
4. Family members:
World of Warcraft Questionnaire
A. Warming up with the basics: (short answers and descriptions)
5. Hobbies:
10. Time spent sleeping in a day:
12. Time spent playing in a month:
7. Description of your personality:
9. When you started playing WoW:
8. The thing you are proud of:
6. Other online games you play:
13. Paid playing months in a year:
11. Time spent playing in a day:
B.   Your view in common questions about WoW: (let it flow, let your thoughts to be heard. Short one word answers will do fine also)
C.   Your relationship with the game: (you can have multipple answers. If you choose other tell me what and why.)
1. How does your game session usually end?
2. How long could your family force you to be offline?
a. 24 hours would be a torture
b. like a week if I can prove something
c.  even a month, i can think other things to do
d. rest of my life if I can so ease the worry of my family
e. other, what?
3. How does your family feel about you playing?
a. they support financily and don’t see threath in the game
b. they think Warcraft is evil
c. they let me play if I can afford it myself and still take care of my job/studies
d. they think the game disrupts my social life/school
e. other, what?
4. What does your friends think about WoW?
a. they were the ones to get me interested!
b. I have met most of my friends online, they play too
c. I have different friends offline, they don’t mind me playing
d. my friends don’t know I play online games
e. other, what?
5. How would your friends characterize you?
a. social and wild
b. weird but fun
c. calm and friendly
d. total outcast
e. smarter than average
f. other, what?
6. What kind of things in Warcraft could cause addiction?
a. the responsibility of playing in groups
b. ambitious goals and oportunities
c. siply the massive and amazing virtualreality world
d. everwidening game that seems not to have ending
e. other, what?
D.   Your Warcraft facts: (try to make your answers as informative as you can)
1. How many active characters you have, and what lvl?
2. Are your characters in guilds?
3. How often you raid?
4. Most memorizeble experience in WoW?
5. Longest time you have been without playing since you started with WoW?
6. Do you ever get bored with Warcraft?
7. What is the longest time you have played without a break?
8. Do you feel you are addicted to online games?
9. Horde or Alliance, and why?
10. What kind of player is noob?
11. What kind of person gets addicted to online games?
12. Do you see Warcraft as a way to make money?
OPTIONAL!
(only for our use to send further info or questions about the research)
1. Do you think World of Warcraft is addictive?
2. Have you noticed any changes in your personality?
3. Does playing effect your mood?
4. Is it easy to leave the game for to make dinner or to go sleep?
5. How do you feel about the stories of game addicts?
6. Is it OK to skip work or school to play WoW? Have you?
a. normally when my preset daily game time expires
b. it depends, usually when i get tired
c. when I get annoyed enough
d. when i reach the daily goals
e. usually a family member interrupts my game
f. other, what?