So I did something interesting yesterday. One of the guys on our football team works for the local university in the Kiniesiology (or however that is spelt) department. Turns out they run tests on people playing video games or playing magic and monitor their responses and then pay them.
The wife and I signed up to do this yesterday for 3 1/2 hours. They hooked her up to a bunch of electrodes and cameras and then got us to play through a few games of magic and constantly fill in surveys. The decks seemed to be kinda started decks. We basically mingled two colours from prewrapped packets. She picked white black. Those being two of my fav colours I chose blue green.
But what is more interesting is that I believe they are also kinda doing this for the benefit of Wizards of the Coast. They use it as a chance to see how people enjoy the game. What they don't enjoy. How easy it is to learn etc. So I wonder if I have some tiny influence on how Magic will be going forward. Pretty cool eh?!
(ps. In the what could be better, I whined about overpowered undercosted mythic rares even though we didn't have any in our decks. Why waste an opportunity to try and stop them making those things! I also mentioned that a frustrating part of the game is that it is often a walkover for one person).
Hopefully they will get us in for more of these things. I can't say it's overly exciting as every 5 minutes you have to do another survey but there are way way worse ways to make a little money too!
