No "Additional Comments" on Survey

[Weirdo]

I expect you're planning on using the forums for this, but

1) Not all playtesters necessarily have Paizo accounts or will post on forums, but may want to make additional comments about their playtest experience.

2) Some survey responses might be misrepresentative without context. For example, I answered "seven characters" for The Lost Star, but we completed the adventure in three sessions with a slightly different set of 3/5/5 characters each session. The survey also doesn't ask about adjustments made to the encounters for multiple opponents, so you might get the impression that I ran 7 characters at a time without adjusting encounters and found them all fairly challenging, when in fact we had no more than 5 characters at a time with 25% more monsters. Even if I do post these details on the forums it might make it harder to analyze the survey data if you can't easily check for context for any outlier survey responses.

[Gorbacz]

There will be a general not-DDawn related survey at a later day for general comments.

[Ediwir]

Uh... have you tried the Open Response Survey?

[Weirdo]

Ediwir wrote:

Uh... have you tried the Open Response Survey?

Thanks, I didn't realize that's what that was for.

However, it only solves my issue 1 (having a place to give free-form feedback that isn't the forums), not issue 2 (separating the more freeform feedback from the structured feedback might make it more difficult to identify reasons for outlier responses, if Paizo is inclined to go through surveys in that depth).

[CrystalSeas]

Weirdo wrote:

not issue 2 (separating the more freeform feedback from the structured feedback might make it more difficult to identify reasons for outlier responses, if Paizo is inclined to go through surveys in that depth).

It is very, very, very simple to correlate a single respondent's survey forms and individual answers.

See, for example the "Posts" tab in your account profile

[Weirdo]

Are surveys linked to a Paizo account? They're not hosted on Paizo and don't ask for a Paizo ID (again, not all my players have one).

If they're getting IP addresses there's a chance people will fill out the surveys from different locations, or have a dynamic IP address shift during the playtest.

As a third issue, having to find and open a separate survey adds friction for players who are not already motivated to provide detailed feedback but who might do so if the questions are at the end of a survey they are already filling out.

Is there a benefit fo having the Open Survey separate from the GM and Player surveys?