An update on the Great Wargaming Survey #GreatWargamingSurvey - GWS 2024: Where did everyone go? https://www.karwansaraypublishers.com/blogs/great-wargaming-survey-blog-wss-magazine/gws-2024-where-did-everyone-go?utm_source=spf&utm_campaign=blogs&utm_content=gws-2024-where-did-everyone-go&utm_term… - ThreadSky

wssmagazine.bsky.social • 98 days ago

An update on the Great Wargaming Survey #GreatWargamingSurvey - GWS 2024: Where did everyone go? https://www.karwansaraypublishers.com/blogs/great-wargaming-survey-blog-wss-magazine/gws-2024-where-did-everyone-go?utm_source=spf&utm_campaign=blogs&utm_content=gws-2024-where-did-everyone-go&utm_term=wss&utm_medium=bs

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westburywargamers.bsky.social•98 days ago

Indeed, where did everyone go? I completed it, but it found me almost by accident - someone forwarded it. To be honest, I didn't find it that relevant to my gaming, perhaps I'm too grey 😅

andreasefternamn.bsky.social•98 days ago

Is it possible to see what primary interest the different age groups have?

wssmagazine.bsky.social•98 days ago

Did you check previous blogs about 2023 and earlier? Pretty sure some of that is already present: https://www.karwansaraypublishers.com/blogs/great-wargaming-survey-blog-wss-magazine

andreasefternamn.bsky.social•98 days ago

Found it in the 2022 survey, very interesting and if you have time to see how this has changed for 23 and 24 that would be nice to see.
https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0296/7067/0384/files/GWS2022_Period_AgeGroup.png?v=1670334751

andreasefternamn.bsky.social•98 days ago

Nice to see that WWI is almost as popular as 40K among the younger wargamers! 😅

maraviglia.bsky.social•98 days ago

That is quite a question. I saw it and did it immediately (just cos I could) but my wife says she never saw it advertised even once and she normally does it too as there aren't as many female voices for the hobby. I'm sure its not all of the reason but I think visibility was a definite factor.

anibalinvic.bsky.social•98 days ago

I’m in awe with the fall in responses. Should it be related to the Twitter algorithm that has reduced the visibility of the WSS account generally ? I experienced a significant reduction in visibility with some accounts of my interest and not because of lower activity.

crobinsonptbo.bsky.social•98 days ago

I wonder if it's the regularity of the survey after several years of being the big thing, now it's the usual thing and some people are tuning out to the call for responses?

anibalinvic.bsky.social•98 days ago

But that may have been reflected in a gradual decrease in numbers? This is a big fall in one year after along period of growth and relative stability

crobinsonptbo.bsky.social•98 days ago

I don't know, you're right it's a big one-time drop off.

clogfather.bsky.social•98 days ago

I suspect it was social media in general. Twitter was particularly bad, but Fb isn’t much better if you don’t pay up a lot. And there might be some fatigue.

sybg.bsky.social•98 days ago

I didn't respond this year because the number of questions that there was no valid answer for me seems to have increased year on year, so I felt that my answers to questions would have been meaningless...
Which I guess means that I didn't feel my actual answers were important?

sybg.bsky.social•98 days ago

Tbc, that isn't a criticism.

More me saying 'as someone who does this stuff, this doesn't really represent me anymore'.

So I've decided that if I am not a wargamer, I must be a boardgamer, even if I use miniatures a lot to do battles?

A question of perspective, I guess. The two cross over.

clogfather.bsky.social•98 days ago

Oddly enough, we had more ‘adjacent’ hobby questions this year, I think, to gauge how much crossover there is. There’s always 2025!

sybg.bsky.social•98 days ago

Yeah, I do agree.

It's hard to answer some of the questions, though. Do I anticipate a lesser or greater spend this year?

Compared to what? I have spent LOADS over the last five years, and I have no space left, so I have to stop the spend, or sell some stuff. The question isn't easy to answer.

svelhlaupr.bsky.social•98 days ago

@sybg.bsky.social makes points I agree with entirely.
Categories are very broad (I like French Indian War, for instance, but have no real interest in the wider 7 Years War. I game some Roman-era settings, am very interested in Hellenistic and hoplite era history, but I don't game either of them).

ashleyrpollard.bsky.social•96 days ago

The trouble with metrics is when they turn into goals to measure outcomes.

This might lead to things like the person saying, I'm not sure this applies to me and not replying.

It's a fine line between being too broad and going deep enough to get meaningful data.

clogfather.bsky.social•96 days ago

Fair point, but I think (though I might be wrong) that this balance hasn’t changed from one year to the next. Still, always up for suggestions to improve the survey.

ashleyrpollard.bsky.social•96 days ago

I use to take measures/survey as part of my work, and it's complicated by confounding variables, which is what I think you may be seeing with your surveys.

svelhlaupr.bsky.social•96 days ago

I guess I feel (just feel, not saying it's correct) that the survey presumes I'm driven by gaming period, whereas for me, while that's initially and narrowly true, once I've found rules that work for me for that narrow slot of time, I'll play other periods with those rules - and maybe more often.

svelhlaupr.bsky.social•96 days ago

Whereas other people will happily play one period using many different sets of rules for the same size of engagement, and possibly different scales too.

davekershaw.bsky.social•98 days ago

Did you ask where people saw the survey advertised? If one of those sources drops off, maybe that shows why numbers dropped. Like others, I suspect twitter's self-immolation was one reason.

wssmagazine.bsky.social•98 days ago

No, but a good idea for 2025!

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