Survey Responses!
Well the results are in and I thank you for all the time, effort and input that went into completing the surveys. We had over 25,000 responses in a two and a half day period which took both Robin and I totally by surprise and just reinforced our belief in the passionate community we have here at NexusMods.
I've put all the comments into two different documents and am now in the process of reading them, making notes and tallying the suggestions up so that we get an idea of what we can do to best improve the experience for you all.
Like I said before, this process is open to the community. So for your information, these are the results of the survey:
Gender:
Male: 88%
Female: 9%
Rather not say: 4%
Age:
18 - 24: 40%
up to 17: 22%
25 to 34: 19%
35 to 44: 8%
45 to 54: 5%
Rather not say: 4%
55 to 64: 2%
65 to 74: 1%
75+: 0%
Visits:
Daily: 49%
Weekly: 36%
Occasionally: 9%
Monthly: 5%
First Visit: 1%
Usage (multiple answers possible):
Mod User: 96%
Browse Around: 20%
Forum User: 9%
Mod Author: 8%
Uploading a Mod is Simple and Easy:
Average: 7.77
I like the look of the website:
Average: 7.59
Easy to Navigate:
Average: 7.58
Find what I want Quickly:
Average 7.24
Everything is clearly labelled:
Average: 7.51
Browsing Experience:
Particular Mod, then browse around: 53%
Browse for Hidden Gems: 44%
Particular Mod, then leave: 3%
Recommend to a friend:
Average: 9.23!!
An average score of 9.23 out of 10 for recommending to a friend, now that is certainly a good thing to hear.
We also had an enormous amount of suggestions and feedback, 700+ pages to be precise and I’m actually going through all of it. Some people have gone into incredible detail:
Many have been listing parts of the site and how they believe it should be changed. Others have blasted down ideas in bullet points including highlighting tagging, making the site more responsive and improving the site search functionality.
It actually doesn't matter how you have given your feedback we are exceptionally grateful for all of it. I have received plenty of PMs too which I will reply to over the course of the next week. Things are pretty go, go, go at the moment but please be aware that I'll reply to everything eventually.
I’ve also created another form incase you wanted to put forward any more feedback and suggestions throughout this process. You can access that by clicking somewhere around here.
We have picked the 5 winners of the Steam vouchers and will be contacting them via email in the next few days.
So what's the next step? Well, we are looking at taking on a part-time User Experience / User Interface Designer to work with us on interpreting the information we gathered from the surveys, hopefully we can find a passionate person from within the Nexus community, but I will put out a separate post on this very shortly.
Once we have managed to recruit someone to come on board we will begin the whole design process. To begin with this will involve analysing how people use the site, which parts of the site get looked at and how people interact. From that we'll find the areas that can be streamlined and made more intuitive, work out a process flow that people will not find too different from the norm and then begin with wireframes.
Once we have managed to produce the wireframes these will be shared with the community for feedback.
These are fun times to be here at NexusMods and I'm looking forward to the next month immeasurably.
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A moderator has closed this comment topic for the time beingJaxonz, kryptopyr, Mattie, you and me, Tamira, zzjay....
Man, now we just need more mod user girls since we have the author front covered!
Looking forward to what the future brings for the sites. Looks like BlindJudge is jumping in with both feet.
You two and Tamira were apparent, but... the others? And I thought I was on top of checking profiles to check gender to avoid such awkward moments...
But if this is the reflection of the usership I'll never ever wonder anymore why half of the mods want to make your female Dragonborn look like some half nude kindergarten welp with the breast size of Chelsea Charms and the male ones like some watered down Final Fantasy toy boys.
<= *praises fadingsignal and Maevan2*
But seriously... I never thought that the female percentage and my own age range would be so small.
Many women/girls are convinced that gaming is too childish or stupid and don't get involved in it or hiding it as best as they can, but tbh in more or less civil countries EVERYONE is a gamer even if that means some casual mobile or browser gaming.
Stereotypes rules minds these days.
I am a mod creator also, I just don't publish my work. I horde my things all for myself =p
The only thing published publicly I helped with is the Fine Faces texture. I worked on the neck, ears and redid the feet textures for SAM body.
One day i will publish one of my mods that is not too personal (not one of my OC's is what I mean)
I also download tons of skimpy armor and have nude mods. Not for any pervy reasons, rather as an artist I find the human form beautiful. I want my characters to be perfect and customized, every bit of them.
That's my 2 cents anyway ^^
It could simply be that a lot of the ladies around simply didn't answer the survey. Many people just come for the mods, and may not pay attention to the news, so may not have seen it.
*Hugs Llama*
@cavity75 - Hi! Went to add you, but you'd beat me to it!
llama
8% 35-44...buncha whippersnappers! *grumble grumble*
Was just looking again and saw I am in the 55 to 64, 2 % range... gee many of us either.
All the front page female mods are only annoying to me because they are not balanced by front page male mods. Fix that and it might help the situation.
So, thinking productively: "hide adult mods" is pretty narrow, but having a '-skimpy' tag setting as the public default for front page views would be a good test to see if it pulls more repeat users. Better tag integration would allow me to search for armor with meshes for both genders, but without avoiding skimpy.
Well I guess I'd better start contributing the sort of things I like in any case. That's the beauty of mods.
It is amazing given how MANY modders are females. Seriously. UGH.
COME BACK SCHLONGS OF SKYRIM!!!!! THE NEXUS NEEDS YOUR HELP!!!!!!!
Interesting... if you add up the percentages, you end up with 101% for Gender, and for Age, both. There must be some funky rounding going on there somewhere.
I should probably change the colour of my spartan to pink, but blue is my favourite colour...
Uh... I didn't notice any of all that. Maybe I'm playing the "wrong" kind of games? But I never felt put off, certainly not because of my gender.
Well, considering majority of most popular titles featuring brutal males with weapons (guns or swords) killing as a main goal (like in 90% of video games) making dumb sexist jokes on the go, or female character as main protagonist in waaaay too skimpy looks attracting young horny males...
Fightning, racing, building or sports don't usually attract females, that's why SIMS is n1 on fem gaming list, which is sad, really...
That's the gaming industry today.
You know, that's actually part of the problem right there - public opinion telling me and other potential gaming women that we have no business enjoying any of these things. Maybe you should start blaming the media for brainwhashing parents into believing that girls need barbies while boys get trucks and squirt guns, instead of condemning gaming companies for making great, successful games.
My only concern about any nude mods, male or female, is the amount of kids that play this game, and come here looking for mods. For the sake of not getting sued, you'd think the "adult" mods would only be visible behind a account creation. I know people lie all the time about ages on the internet, but at least if they HAVE to sign up to see naked elves, you have some defense if a suin' happens.
A better idea might be a more extended survey (as in, over a longer period of time), in order to catch people with a wider range of schedules. At least a week would be needed to get a broader picture of things, and even then, this being Summer, the percentage of those still of school age is likely to be skewed higher.
If the only idea of the survey was demographics, I am sure there is some way for those in charge to access statistics on what percentage of account holders have declared themselves to be what gender, or what age in their profile (as well as those that decline to state). The site also tracks when an account holder was last active, and whether they have posted any mods, so if they wanted to limit the results to only currently active members, or only mod authors, that could be done as well. I would be curious to see those broader statistics myself. But I believe the actual point of the survey was to get opinions of what the site is doing right and wrong, and what users in general thought should be improved, and how. The demographic information on the respondees was, I think, provided more as an interesting aside then as the intended results of the survey.
Edit: No, Im not actually going to add anyone. I have too much bride to approach women (or alternatively just too shy)
Still adult mods are lore friendly, the children in the game didn't came out from nowhere. Nor should it be the lack of prostitution, gambling, profanity or generic adult pastures. TES games are so childish when compared to Witcher series.
Females enrich communitys, half of my friends on Steam are girls...so...
Just take a look at
http://msmagazine.com/blog/2013/06/13/actually-about-half-of-gamers-are-women/
As of 2013, about 45% of gamers are female. I wouldn't be surprised to find that it's increased in the past two years.
There's an appalling amount of sexism, and comments about domestic violence, rape, and how "Women shouldn't be playing video games, they should be in the kitchen LOL1!1!1!"
Note: Their words, not mine. I don't agree with it at all- like I said, I AM a female gamer- I'm just bringing it to light, please don't flame me.
Nude doesn't bother me. Skimpiness does. Many females pay attention to style and sense of fashion. So if you have a nice armor and just cut out the crotch area and tights, it may attract a male, but is otherwise completely senseless and not aesthetically pleasing anymore. It just looks like they forgot to put on their trousers.
This makes me really sad because skimpiness for its own sake ruins some good designs.
I'd also like a tag that you just can hide it in the search. Saves much time.
In the account options popup, click on "block content", then you have a whole bunch of things you can choose to block, such as skimpy stuff. For example, i use it to block translations and saved games. It works really well, shame so many people don't even know it exists.
I, too, was stunned.
@Elianora, you're one of my favorite modders btw, keep up the awesome work!
Least of all Jaxonz and zzjay.
Sincerely, Snarky
it means that 9% voted and you can see that 36% of the voters log in weekly,so maybe there are more that didn't vote if they were male or female or how often do they log in...
sorry for my english... hope it's not non-sense...
Male mod author/user here, but I was thinking that same thing. I thought it was little more even too, but the sheer number of male-tailored mods does sort of suggest that. =)
Remember the old saying? "On the internet men are men, women are men and little children are the FBI." For a long time I surfed a certain site who's motto was "Tits or GTFO!" should someone just imply to be female. Girls are rather looked as attention wh*%#, because especially in MMORPGs ladies (or rather female avatars, regardless if they are truly girls) are treated better.
I once saw a pic of a "Games for Girls" stand with MGS with the comments being "nothing out of the ordinary here".
I'm more than fine to either claim to be male or give no gender at all. I even prefer playing males because ladies have the choises between skimpy and so little armor that they would be dead the second they enter combat or should freeze to death within minutes. I don't mind skimpyarmor if it's tasteful, but if someone claims that a miniskirt version is much better without panties it's what I don't understand.
Regardless, it does kind of suck in that that are not nearly enough chest and arm baring male armor mods. I don't want to see some guys junk, and it seems like most of the mods for skimpy male armor just have no codpiece...and ew.
I think I had a point there, but I lost it. Oh well.
Interesting none the less. My inner psych nerd is loving the potential implications to both of the above
Once came to as a nice bigboy for changing the ISP modem and sees the opend Oblivion my mother playing it, well he was happy and says: imagine a bunch of directors and important people playing and keeping it secret.
Male: 88%
Female: 9%
Rather not say: 4%"
Is Squashy the only one who noticed that these numbers add up to 101% ???
Is one gender 'double-dipping'?
Squashy's in the 1st (gender) 7th (age) and a Seriously Competitive "Non-Modder"!
I thought here are an equal number of males and females.
Didn't realized it was so few females around here :/
If you round off to the nearest whole number value you can get 99, 100 or 101 Depending on the actual decimal value and what rounding algorithm you use. However, I wouldn't put it past some to double dip if they can find a way.
1) Either males are more likely to fill out surveys on modding sites, or females report themselves as male on said surveys.
2) People over 75 fall into one of these: [a] don't like to take surveys while looking for mods, [b] either decline to answer or lie about age, [c] don't use mods when they play pc games, or [d] still get their mods from dial-up AOL.
3) It's possible up to half of all mod authors don't use mods themselves.
4) Between 53% and 97% of people surveyed claim to browse the site, but only 20% admitted to it. So if people responded honestly about the "Browsing Experience" question, then at minimum 33% responded deceptively on the "Usage" question regarding browsing, and as many as 77%* answered deceptively about it.
5) Possibly as few as 1%** of all forum users are not mod authors.
*If the 3% who claimed to only search for a particular mod lied and actual claimed they browse under the "Usage" question, then only 17% of the admitted browsers can be the group of interest, and thus the maximum would be as high as 80% of survey respondents were deceptive. If those 3% did not claim to browse, then the maximum possible is 77%.
**That is 1% of all site users, which is actually 1/9th of survey respondents identifying as forum users. So then it would be just over 11% are non-mod authors, if only counting forum users, and still leave almost 90% of forum users as mod authors.
Just to avoid arguments, I'm going to explicitly point out this post is humor. I am aware of the flawed assumptions made in both part two and particularly part four (though the main assumption is stated, so the inductive logic that followed is valid if we note that omission is a part of the formal classification of deception in academic communications nomenclature). Part one is valid in this one case, but cannot be extrapolated to a general case based on this small amount of sample data. Part three is actually interesting to consider and entirely possible, though it seems implausible to me. I think part five speaks for itself, through laughter.
From the technical definition "a non-mod is something that alters your game without modifying, repairing, restoring, or expanding any aspect, content, or functionality of it."
Not to be confused with an anti-mod, which removes content from a game. Of course, we all know that for every fundamental mod in the universe, there exists a counterpart anti-mod.
Note that the null-mod is the trivial mod equivalent to a .esp with no entries, if using Bethesda games as an example. However, packing 253 of these into a collection can be used to create a fundamental non-mod. If you were to attempt to make the smallest adjustment by adding one more esp, you would create an unstable non-mod which decays quickly into an anti-mod of considerable destructive power. This catastrophic phenomenon can be observed when unleashed as the baleful conflict of two powerful forces, devastating the mighty the engines of the world one seeks to enter, as it struggles to block the exe from loading with the main esm.
It just shows how delicate the balance of the natural mod world truly is, and how important we study it further.