AMA Recap: March 18, 2022

Guest of Honor: Szir (Seye-Zer) – Associate Manager, Insights

Self proclaimed game nerd, NFT nerd, data nerd, Champions: Ascension nerd. Eats pineapple on Pizza.

MC: Captain Chris

On Szir:

• Most embarrassing survey was interviewing people on bathroom products or adult products.
• Worked on tech, games, adult content, consumer beauty products, entertainment and everything in between.
• Favorite videogames are currently Returnal, Elden Ring and the new Horizon. Enjoys game that get his adrenaline going.

On Insights:

• The voice of the player, to bring the opinions of the community forward in the development process.
• Collaborative process. Talk to the team to decide what should be asked and how it should be asked.
• Answers are analyzed by a team to gain understanding.
• Quantitative and Qualitative questions are asked.
• Reports are given to many parties across Jam City.
• Player input never stops as long as the game is live.
• For Champions: Ascension, community has been involved much earlier than normal.
• Exploring many options for other games or other games within Champions: Ascension.

On the Game:

• AAA Gaming experience.
• Co-op: Team based gameplay, both PvP and PvE will be added in the future
• Planning to have an in application system for trading NFTs but Opensea would be the easiest option
• Servers: There will be split servers like other MMOs.

On Surveys:

• There may be an opportunity for prizes for filling out surveys in the future.
• Large portion of the server are people who have never engaged with the NFT market before.
• Connecting both gamers and NFT investors.
• There will be more Surveys targeted to Prime Eternal holders.
• 4 Surveys have been completed so far.
• Survey Analysis process:
  • Top Level analysis - Look at data/feedback and give early level report
  • Follow up with comments / insights after a deeper review.
• Both positive and negative responses have value. Negative responses can help direct a correction, a positive response tells them what they are doing right.
• Diversity is important to responses.
• Most influential question: "What are you expecting from Champions: Ascension?"

On Tokenomics:

• No dates to be provided right now.
• Whitepaper first, staking later.
• No specifics on how much $Massina per day yet.
• Different rewards will be given for different staking periods.
• Whitepaper (hopefully within a month)
• Staking (hopefully end of April)

On Customer Interviews:

• Insights wants to talk to as many people as they can and are working through the list of volunteers.
• Everything the community is saying is being distributed throughout the organization.
• Customers are compensated for participation in customer interviews.
• They have done 20-30+ customer interviews so far. 45-90 minutes in length.
• More interest on interviews than they could ever conduct. Selection process varies depending on questions.
• Each individual is emailed personally. The personal touch slows the process slightly.
• Focus groups: nothing currently planned, but a tool that the customer insights.

On Lore:

• Feedback will be provided to team to summarize the lore to make it more accessible.
• Lots of resources are being geared toward more lore.

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