Ubisoft Monaco GP Focusgroup?

Hey I was invited to partake in the focusgroup and got there a few minutes late and no one was there. Did I miss something or did the group go to some online play or something else? Appreciate any answers. Thanks Brian O

> Hey I was invited to partake in the focusgroup and got there a few minutes > late and no one was there. Did I miss something or did the group go to some > online play or something else? Appreciate any answers. > Thanks > Brian O Brian, We went at it for almost two hours. I thought lots of good points were made and of course a good time had by all. All the best, Mike -- Michael S. Davis Creative Media-Works Computer/Audio/Video Convergence "from Creative minds spring Creative solutions." http://www.creativemedia-works.com Member, International Webmasters Association http://iwanet.org

Yup, it was fun in general, but it was really cool to see so many different folks thinking very much along the same lines. I think the only thing the group was really split on was whether the new boxes were an improvement over the old ones. I can live with that : ) Neil M.

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>> Hey I was invited to partake in the focusgroup and got there a few minutes >> late and no one was there. Did I miss something or did the group go to some >> online play or something else? Appreciate any answers. >> Thanks >> Brian O > Brian, > We went at it for almost two hours. I thought lots of good points were made >and of course a good time had by all. All the best, Mike >-- > Michael S. Davis Creative Media-Works > Computer/Audio/Video Convergence > "from Creative minds spring Creative solutions." > http://www.creativemedia-works.com > Member, International Webmasters Association http://iwanet.org

>Hey I was invited to partake in the focusgroup and got there a few minutes >late and no one was there. Did I miss something or did the group go to some >online play or something else? Appreciate any answers. >Thanks >Brian O It ran from about 6:05 PM to 7:50 PM EDT. We stayed in their chat room for the whole discussion. I did notice that someone logged in after Ubisoft had asked maybe four or five questions to the group, and there was a reply from their sys admin who was there, saying that the person had logged on too late to participate. I guess they didn't want to skew their data or something. There was no online play, just IMO a pretty interesting discussion (but then again, I'm an old software marketing person who'd set up focus groups, but had never been a participant). The questions were basically what you might think -- why did you buy F1RS; what other sims do you have; what did you think of the MGPRS2 demo (god, I hate that acronym!), etc. It was nice to be able to provide direct feedback about something near and dear to our hearts like F1 sims. ============================ Dave Mack (remove "nospamfor_" for correspondence)

It's possible that he didn't click on the locked group. I lingered in the main lobby until someone told me to click on the locked group for the Focus Group. There were 3 or 4 other people out there with me, going "When do we type in the password?" and so on. He may have gotten there too late to be guided into the room. On another note, it's kind of cool seeing other participants "in the wild" after the session. It's like, "Hey, I know that guy..." :) Oh, and the acronym STILL sucks! Did you get an email from Erica today telling you she was sending hard copy materials for the session on Wednesday? I did and thought it was pretty funny.

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>>Hey I was invited to partake in the focusgroup and got there a few minutes >>late and no one was there. Did I miss something or did the group go to some >>online play or something else? Appreciate any answers. >>Thanks >>Brian O >It ran from about 6:05 PM to 7:50 PM EDT. We stayed in their chat >room for the whole discussion. I did notice that someone logged in >after Ubisoft had asked maybe four or five questions to the group, and >there was a reply from their sys admin who was there, saying that the >person had logged on too late to participate. I guess they didn't >want to skew their data or something. >There was no online play, just IMO a pretty interesting discussion >(but then again, I'm an old software marketing person who'd set up >focus groups, but had never been a participant). The questions were >basically what you might think -- why did you buy F1RS; what other >sims do you have; what did you think of the MGPRS2 demo (god, I hate >that acronym!), etc. It was nice to be able to provide direct >feedback about something near and dear to our hearts like F1 sims. >============================ >Dave Mack >(remove "nospamfor_" for correspondence)

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Heck, I was a part of the SpeedBusters focus group, and never got the game that they promised to send for taking part in the group. Kinda got turned off because of that.....

[snip[ You got that right. That was one of the things that several of us told them! No, I got the email about the hardcopy and the hardcopy itself in plenty of time before the focus group. She did send an email today with the list of titles we could select from for participating. Guess which new F1 sim title I picked. :) ============================ Dave Mack (remove "nospamfor_" for correspondence)

Same one I did? Wonder when it will arrive? February, if at all?

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>[snip[ >>Oh, and the acronym STILL sucks! >You got that right. That was one of the things that several of us >told them! >>Did you get an email from Erica today telling you she was sending hard >>copy materials for the session on Wednesday? I did and thought it was >>pretty funny. >No, I got the email about the hardcopy and the hardcopy itself in >plenty of time before the focus group. She did send an email today >with the list of titles we could select from for participating. Guess >which new F1 sim title I picked. :) >============================ >Dave Mack >(remove "nospamfor_" for correspondence)

-- Rick Worrell Sports *** Network [link lost in import: /***.com]