Do you have HotS?

[EKCO]

I'm trying to gage the time frame in which to begin the inclusion of HotS content.

 

Note that this poll is not indicative of the entire scene (public and foreign playerbase), which are things we also need to take into consideration when making a decision on moving forward with additional dependencies. Other mods have made similar updates, only to result in a drastic loss of players, so we want to see where SC2 stands right now in terms of HotS sales. The results of this poll do not dictate a release date, but does help us get a better idea of where the forum community stands on HotS.

 

If the vast majority of people already have the game, no problem, we can just move forward with updates.

If most people don't plan on updating, then we'll try to change that sentiment or wait until it does.

If most people would buy HotS to gain access to the updated AoS, then we'd try to aim for when HotS experiences a price drop.

 

 

Also, let me know your experience with HotS so far. Did you buy it for the campaign? The arcade mods? Ladder? Brand loyalty?

[Adversary]

no.

Edited April 9, 2013 by Adversary

[MOTHER]

I already have it but to be honest, I would buy it for arcade games like AoS if I didn't have it already. I got it for the campaign, long time fan of the series.

 

Hope this update comes sooner rather than later.

[heimdallr]

already have hots....FOR THE SWAAAARMMMM!!!

[xNOVAxPRIMEx]

I have been procrastinating getting HotS just cause I have a hard time justfying buying a game for just a campaign >.< if AoS had an update i would consider that reason enough to finally go buy it. In the SC world i have never been about the ladder and all about customs.

 

From my experience, aside from Lettow, I feel like the only one in AoS that doesnt have the update. I see it eeverytime i join a party and im the only one without the expansion XD.

[Eliwan]

I have it, but I bought it for the campaign for the most part. I tried some ladder games... didn't like them just as before, they felt icky and made me not want to play it anymore (so I stopped).

[Skydie]

Should point out price of HoTs won't drop much. In the UK it's like £20-£30 so unless you want to wait 2 years for it to be £18 just buy it if you're going to eventually.

[residente]

gogogogo update update

[Takeray]

YES.

[pchacker]

I bought hots about a week after it came out, I got it for the new campaign and aos, I dont like ladder, I'm too nub at it and cant be bothered to spend the time required to get good at it.

 

#Doingthehotscampaignincasualftw

[Snow]

yeah and most people do in AoS, atleast in my friend base there is only one without it and he said he's waiting for AoS to incorporate it

[Phyresis]

I bought hots about a week after it came out, I got it for the new campaign and aos, I dont like ladder, I'm too nub at it and cant be bothered to spend the time required to get good at it.

 

#Doingthehotscampaignincasualftw

Man, i could give the casual campaign to a 5 year old and he would be able to finish it easy peasy. Brutal all the way!

[zeeeend]

I instantly played it on release. And first 48 hour i bought it for the campain. The first week for all campain achievements. And the rest i dont care already bought it.

[Adamantium]

I bought it for the campaign and AoS

[Midknight]

I'm waiting until it comes down in price, or AoS is updated to include HotS dependencies... whichever happens first.

[Frosti]

i'd buy it 2times for aos. but i got it anyways

[dutch]

make it HOTS

[Jaysi]

i'd buy it 2times for aos. but i got it anyways

 

Should not allow Frosti to play AoS until he purchases HotS for someone else ;D

[SKyExiaLinoz]

i bought it for the quick games 1v1 2v2, etc

and to play aos if aos is released for hots

[Reaper]

havnt got it yet and finding it hard to find time to go to the shops

[Skydie]

havnt got it yet and finding it hard to find time to go to the shops

 

I'm surprised a young man such as yourself hasn't heard about e-commerce...

[BestZeratul]

I am not sure exactly what you are trying to achieve with these polls, you are essentially gathering feedback from less than 100 people (don't know how many people play this game but I reckon 100 isn't a big part of it) and those 100 people you are gathering feedback from are an extremely biased sample of players, which means there is no reason to assume the results to a similar poll with a non biased sample of players would be the same.

 

I personally don't really care as I plan to get HotS this weekend but I hope you are not making decisions based on this sort of thread.

[Takeray]

I am not sure exactly what you are trying to achieve with these polls, you are essentially gathering feedback from less than 100 people (don't know how many people play this game but I reckon 100 isn't a big part of it) and those 100 people you are gathering feedback from are an extremely biased sample of players, which means there is no reason to assume the results to a similar poll with a non biased sample of players would be the same.

 

I personally don't really care as I plan to get HotS this weekend but I hope you are not making decisions based on this sort of thread.

 

I think it is statistics. Of course, we can't find here all AoS players but everybody can access here. Even people who takes it serious or wanna learn, speak about, involved in process take a look on forums. I just tnink it helps on his work

[Skydie]

I am not sure exactly what you are trying to achieve with these polls, you are essentially gathering feedback from less than 100 people (don't know how many people play this game but I reckon 100 isn't a big part of it) and those 100 people you are gathering feedback from are an extremely biased sample of players, which means there is no reason to assume the results to a similar poll with a non biased sample of players would be the same.

 

I personally don't really care as I plan to get HotS this weekend but I hope you are not making decisions based on this sort of thread.

 

Better to have admin polls on the front page/when you log in. That way there will be a higher chance of participation.

[eaden]

I am not sure exactly what you are trying to achieve with these polls, you are essentially gathering feedback from less than 100 people (don't know how many people play this game but I reckon 100 isn't a big part of it) and those 100 people you are gathering feedback from are an extremely biased sample of players, which means there is no reason to assume the results to a similar poll with a non biased sample of players would be the same.

 

I personally don't really care as I plan to get HotS this weekend but I hope you are not making decisions based on this sort of thread.

I think it is statistics. Of course, we can't find here all AoS players but everybody can access here. Even people who takes it serious or wanna learn, speak about, involved in process take a look on forums. I just tnink it helps on his work

 

To expand upon what Takeray said, ~30 people is often statistically relevant. ~100 people is a pretty good sample size.

 

Take Nielsen for example, they say they have boxes in less than 37,000 households while there are 114.2 million households with TV. That's a sample size of about (37,000 / 114,200,000) = 0.000324 = 0.0324% sample size. Now, let's divide that into 100 and we get: (100 / 0.000324) = 308,649 people. Do 308,649 people play AoS? I don't know, but if there are about that number or less, then I say we can start extrapolating the data. Perhaps it's not 100% accurate, but the data is still useful! That is also assuming people who post on these forums don't correlate to a tendency of buying HotS (or lack thereof).

 

Edit: Also, looking at the poll, there are about 85% (64 out of 75) of the people who answered that they would either get the HotS if AoS was updated to HotS or already had HotS. So putting that into some neat statistical calculations, I can say I'm 95% confident that the true proportion of people that falls into that category is between 77% & 93% of the overall population. As a developer, I might consider the worst and go with 77% and that might be good enough for me to at least try putting out an update for HotS and see how the numbers hold. Perhaps the number of new people will outweigh the people who are left behind. I guess that's up to the developer =P