| 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? |
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