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FIFA World, which recently entered worldwide open beta, suggests EA Sports sees a future beyond this flawed but successful model. It's a free-to-play FIFA game that is, for now at least, available on PC only, and it consists of an Ultimate Team mode that is extremely similar to the one in the most recent FIFA games and a League Teams mode similar to the main series' Online Seasons. The gameplay engine is a little behind its big brother, but not as far as you might imagine.
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submitted by Alright gents, gather around for my adderall infused dissertation on why im
JACKED-TO-THE-TITS on this beaut. Now I know there are many valuable DDs on CRSR over there on wallstreetbets, but I decided to give my own opinion for the fuck of it.
Lets get some of the boring stuff out of the way first: (taken from their quarterly report ending sept 30 2020 which can be found on under "SEC filing" on the
investor relations page of CRSRs website)
- Net revenue was $457.1 million, an increase of 60.7% year-over-year. Gamer and creator peripherals segment net revenue was $161.6 million, an increase of 128.8% year-over-year. Gaming components and systems segment net revenue was $295.5 million, an increase of 38.3% year-over-year
- Gross profit was $127.9 million, an increase of 112.4% year-over-year, with gross margin of 28.0%, an improvement of 680 basis points year-over-year. Gamer and creator peripherals segment gross profit was $60.0 million, an increase of 200.8% year-over-year. Gaming components and systems segment gross profit was $67.9 million, an increase of 68.7% year-over-year.
- Operating income was $49.7 million, an increase of 353.6% year-over-year, Adjusted operating income was $61.4 million, an increase of 193.7% year-over-year.
- Adjusted EBITDA was $63.7 million, an increase of 184.9% year-over-year, with adjusted EBITDA margin of 13.9%
- Adjusted net income was $48.5 million, or $0.54 per diluted share, an increase of 384.0% year-over-year compared to adjusted net income of $10.0 million, or $0.13 per diluted share.
- As of September 30, 2020, we had cash and restricted cash of $120.1 million, $48.0 million capacity under our revolving credit facility and total long-term debt of $370.1 million
- Cash flow from operations was $24.7 million, compared to a use of cash in operations of $2.1 million in the same period a year ago, bringing the 2020 nine month cash flow from operations to $100.3 million.
These numbers make me fucking wet. COVID was a huge accelerator for this company but I believe there are other catalysts that contributed and will continue to contribute to their growth in the future.
REMEMBER these numbers are from June - September. They dont include the 4th quarter of 2020, nor do they include the numbers from the initial lockdown where we saw a lot of people really settling in to the new life of quarantine (and upgrading or buying their first computers)
YES they do have some debt, but they recently did a public offering which raised 118.6m of which 86.6m was used to pay off debt. A statement from the quarterly filing :"We plan to continue to utilize our strong cash flow to further reduce our debt"
CRSR also announced the release of new products that will be for sale in OCTOBER of 2020. We will see how well they did in this upcoming earnings on the 9th.
BUT, I am an amazon seller and can help get a general idea of how well they sold in Q4 through amazon. For other retailors I did my normal ground DD and traveled to a couple best buys and microcenters in my area to see the stock.
Before I get started I feel I need to explain some things: When an item is listed on amazon, it is given a "rank" which shows where the product is relative to other products in the same category. For example a rank of "1" means that product
FLIES off the shelf, were as a ranked of 5m
MIGHT sell 1 a month. Its used as a general guideline for amazon sellers to determine how products are doing. You can gather this information by scrolling down on an amazon page till you see the "sales rank #" or if you participate in retail arbitrage and that whole monster you can use a paid software called keepa.
SOME OF THE NEW PRODUCTS RELEASED - Cooling systems: e H100i ELITE CAPELLIX, H115i ELITE CAPELLIX, and H150i ELITE CAPELLIX. These bad bois were sold out fucking everywhere. Great reviews checking multiple sites. Sales rank of 43 under cooling systems on amazon. They're moving this product FAST AND IN QUANITIES. Plus we all know how much we love our color changing shit.
- VENGEANCE i7200 Series: Pretty beast computer, it isn't sold on amazon and I actually didn't check the stocks of this guy in retail stores. So I cant really comment on this one.
- Corsair K100 RGB Keyboard: Low stock in retail stores, this thing is moving on amazon and seems to be doing pretty well on other online retailors.
- KATAR PRO WIRELESS Gaming Mouse: This one was interesting. There were more on the shelves than their other mice, but I attribute this to it not being a MMO mouse (lack of side buttons for those non gamers) but never the less showed strong competition on amazon with its Logitech counterparts ( it hovered around 1k sales rank from late October to current)
- Corsair MP400 Gen3 PCIe x4 NVMe M.2 Solid State Drive: New SSD, almost all of their SSDs have done well in the past. Mainly positive reviews with an extremely high review count.
- K60 RGB PRO Keyboard: Another keyboard, following the same trend line as the previous keyboard states (#3) sales for this keyboard however were decent (22k sales rank) until December hit, then it exploded (1k sales rank)
- HS60 HAPTIC Headset: I can personally attest to the quality of corsair headsets and cooling equipment, this shit is fantastic. They're durable for when you throw them and give far better audio and mic quality then their Logitech counterparts.
- CORSAIR HS75 XB WIRELESS: I bolded this one for a reason. This one wasn't very well received. Although there are a lot of youtube videos and other promoters saying how good it was, customers seemed to have encountered a lot of problems with it. (wouldn't work after a certain amount of time, weird functionality, etc.) BUT THIS IS A POSITIVE in my eyes. Things dont make sense when every product a company releases is fire, and this one sure seems that it wasn't. It does show however that a predominantly computer focused company is expanding into the console market. With talks of future consoles being able to be "upgraded", I believe they are making the move to further their growth within the console space at the perfect time. Of course there are gonna be a few road bumps.
That is quite of bit of products to release in such a short time span, but a perfect amount to release before the most profitable time of the year. They also announced their acquisition of EPCOM (5million downloads on the apple app store), Game sensei, the leading gaming coaching platform. They also announced a partnership deal with
PIPELINE a leading streamer mentorship platform (I didn't even know this existed but did some digging and I like it). This leads me to my next point.
GAMING ISN'T GOING ANYWHERE EVEN AFTER THE PANDEMIC IS OVER. Pro esports and streaming was already gaining a lot of steam pre pandemic, after the pandemic I still see a lot of growth for esports and gaming as a whole. To add, a lot of people try to emulate their favorite streamer or pro players (just like in traditional sports) people WILL BUY the gear that they are using just like people buy whatever it is that traditional sports players wear.
Streamers they sponsor Teams they sponsor I like these, a lot. They're biggest team the ROX tigers competes in multiple esports and has a huge fan following (20m). They also sponsor some pretty famous streamers (summit1g - the guy who basically started streaming, Voyboy - a ex pro league streamer that is still very involved with the community and Bajheera - big World of Warcraft player). What I LOVE about this that its not so focused on just NA alone. Example : ROX is a Korean team, showing that they are not only trying to grow their brand within the Americas, but worldwide as well.
THEY'RE GOING TO SMOKE THEIR EARNINGS Corsair has a 41.9% share of the PC component market with an addressable market of 36B, they report a peripheriral market share of 18.9%.
This is the smoke. This company has a LOT of room to grow and new areas to expand into. As shown above they keep producing new products within their main sector that are doing very well, while also expanding into other markets (consoles) Corsairs market cap sits at a steady 4B, while its primary competitor (LOGI) sits at a nice 19B market cap. Corsair can easily hit a 10B marketcap at its current growth. I firmly believe this company is far undervalued, but we will see just how undervalued after their earnings on the 8th.
If we take a look at estimates they are low (which does make me believe there might be a after earnings sell off because the estimates are so weak - everyone could be predicting a earnings beat). Last quarter they reported a EPS of 0.54 when 0.32 was estimated, yet for this quarter -including q4 of last year- the estimate sits at 0.46. Rev estimates sit at 555.27m on the high side for this quarter, they did 457m last quarter.
Do they really expect me to believe that they are only gonna make an extra 100m compared to their last quarter which didn't have the Christmas in it? With all the new product launches and lingering sales from previous products, I think they're gonna murder every estimate.
Now this is just my extremely bullish position and that im very fond of this company, love and use their products. I think they:
- Clear 600m Rev for the quarter
- Substantially decrease debt
- Provide great guidance
Last thoughts before I get to how im playing this. There's some other DDs (I'll have to find them and add them to this post) that touches on how good their streaming gear and software is that also shares the same bullish standpoint that I do (I didn't include this in the DD because I personally haven't looked into as the others DDs are sufficient for my confirmation bias).
Anyways, currently im running a covered strangle. Im more of a thetagang player so you'll see a lot of that aspect if I ever post again.
Positions: Sold 5 x 35p 2/19 Sold 5 x 50c 3/19 500 commons at 43$.
BuT WhY ThE PuTs If Ur So BuLlIsH Obviously for the freemium. I LOVE this stock at 35-40 and would buy as much as I could afford. I really like this stock at 40-45, and I kinda like it above 50. But to me this isn't a earnings play, I see substantial growth for this company over the current year. I plan to easily 2-3x my money over the next 2-3 years.
Sadly, this is my first DD, so rip away.
Edit: this isn’t financial advice, just my opinion on why I like it. Also if your going to buy calls make sure you have a strong understanding of IV
Not really about Kitboga. The author talks to Jim Browning. Very interesting.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/27/magazine/scam-call-centers.html [Edit: adding the text of the article which was sent to me by a friend from a call center]
Who’s Making All Those Scam Calls? One afternoon in December 2019, Kathleen Langer, an elderly grandmother who lives by herself in Crossville, Tenn., got a phone call from a person who said he worked in the refund department of her computer manufacturer. The reason for the call, he explained, was to process a refund the company owed Langer for antivirus and anti-hacking protection that had been sold to her and was now being discontinued. Langer, who has a warm and kind voice, couldn’t remember purchasing the plan in question, but at her age, she didn’t quite trust her memory. She had no reason to doubt the caller, who spoke with an Indian accent and said his name was Roger.
He asked her to turn on her computer and led her through a series of steps so that he could access it remotely. When Langer asked why this was necessary, he said he needed to remove his company’s software from her machine. Because the protection was being terminated, he told her, leaving the software on the computer would cause it to crash.
After he gained access to her desktop, using the program TeamViewer, the caller asked Langer to log into her bank to accept the refund, $399, which he was going to transfer into her account. “Because of a technical issue with our system, we won’t be able to refund your money on your credit card or mail you a check,” he said. Langer made a couple of unsuccessful attempts to log in. She didn’t do online banking too often and couldn’t remember her user name.
Frustrated, the caller opened her bank’s internet banking registration form on her computer screen, created a new user name and password for her and asked her to fill out the required details — including her address, Social Security number and birth date. When she typed this last part in, the caller noticed she had turned 80 just weeks earlier and wished her a belated happy birthday. “Thank you!” she replied.
After submitting the form, he tried to log into Langer’s account but failed, because Langer’s bank — like most banks — activates a newly created user ID only after verifying it by speaking to the customer who has requested it. The caller asked Langer if she could go to her bank to resolve the issue. “How far is the bank from your house?” he asked.
A few blocks away, Langer answered. Because it was late afternoon, however, she wasn’t sure if it would be open when she got there. The caller noted that the bank didn’t close until 4:30, which meant she still had 45 minutes. “He was very insistent,” Langer told me recently. On her computer screen, the caller typed out what he wanted her to say at the bank. “Don’t tell them anything about the refund,” he said. She was to say that she needed to log in to check her statements and pay bills.
Langer couldn’t recall, when we spoke, if she drove to the bank or not. But later that afternoon, she rang the number the caller had given her and told him she had been unable to get to the bank in time. He advised her to go back the next morning. By now, Langer was beginning to have doubts about the caller. She told him she wouldn’t answer the phone if he contacted her again.
“Do you care about your computer?” he asked. He then uploaded a program onto her computer called Lock My PC and locked its screen with a password she couldn’t see. When she complained, he got belligerent. “You can call the police, the F.B.I., the C.I.A.,” he told her. “If you want to use your computer as you were doing, you need to go ahead as I was telling you or else you will lose your computer and your money.” When he finally hung up, after reiterating that he would call the following day, Langer felt shaken.
Minutes later, her phone rang again. This caller introduced himself as Jim Browning. “The guy who is trying to convince you to sign into your online banking is after one thing alone, and that is he wants to steal your money,” he said.
Langer was mystified that this new caller, who had what seemed to be a strong Irish accent, knew about the conversations she had just had. “Are you sure you are not with this group?” she asked.
He replied that the same scammers had targeted him, too. But when they were trying to connect remotely to his computer, as they had done with hers, he had managed to secure access to theirs. For weeks, that remote connection had allowed him to eavesdrop on and record calls like those with Langer, in addition to capturing a visual record of the activity on a scammer’s computer screen.
“I’m going to give you the password to unlock your PC because they use the same password every time,” he said. “If you type 4-5-2-1, you’ll unlock it.”
Langer keyed in the digits.
“OK! It came back on!” she said, relieved.
For most people, calls like the one Langer received are a source of annoyance or anxiety. According to the F.B.I.’s Internet Crime Complaint Center, the total losses reported to it by scam victims increased to $3.5 billion in 2019 from $1.4 billion in 2017. Last year, the app Truecaller commissioned the Harris Poll to survey roughly 2,000 American adults and found that 22 percent of the respondents said they had lost money to a phone scam in the past 12 months; Truecaller projects that as many as 56 million Americans may have been victimized this way, losing nearly $20 billion.
The person who rescued Langer that afternoon delights in getting these calls, however. “I’m fascinated by scams,” he told me. “I like to know how they work.” A software engineer based in the United Kingdom, he runs a YouTube channel under the pseudonym Jim Browning, where he regularly posts videos about his fraud-fighting efforts, identifying call centers and those involved in the crimes. He began talking to me over Skype in the fall of 2019 — and then sharing recordings like the episode with Langer — on the condition that I not reveal his identity, which he said was necessary to protect himself against the ire of the bad guys and to continue what he characterizes as his activism. Maintaining anonymity, it turns out, is key to scam-busting and scamming alike. I’ll refer to him by his middle initial, L.
The goal of L.’s efforts and those of others like him is to raise the costs and risks for perpetrators, who hide behind the veil of anonymity afforded by the internet and typically do not face punishment. The work is a hobby for L. — he has a job at an I.T. company — although it seems more like an obsession. Tracking scammers has consumed much of L.’s free time in the evenings over the past few years, he says, except for several weeks in March and April last year, when the start of the coronavirus pandemic forced strict lockdowns in many parts of the world, causing call centers from which much of this activity emanates to temporarily suspend operations. Ten months later, scamming has “gone right back to the way it was before the pandemic,” L. told me earlier this month.
Like L., I was curious to learn more about phone scammers, having received dozens of their calls over the years. They have offered me low interest rates on my credit-card balances, promised to write off my federal student loans and congratulated me on having just won a big lottery. I’ve answered fraudsters claiming to be from the Internal Revenue Service who threaten to send the police to my doorstep unless I agree to pay back taxes that I didn’t know I owed — preferably in the form of iTunes gift cards or by way of a Western Union money transfer. Barring a few exceptions, the individuals calling me have had South Asian accents, leading me to suspect that they are calling from India. On several occasions, I’ve tested this theory by letting the voice on the other end go on for a few minutes before I suddenly interrupt with a torrent of Hindi curses that I retain full mastery of even after living in the United States for the past two decades. I haven’t yet failed to elicit a retaliatory offensive in Hindi. Confirming that these scammers are operating from India hasn’t given me any joy. Instead, as an Indian expatriate living in the United States, I’ve felt a certain shame.
L. started going after scammers when a relative of his lost money to a tech-support swindle, a common scheme with many variants. Often, it starts when the mark gets a call from someone offering unsolicited help in ridding a computer’s hard drive of malware or the like. Other times, computer users looking for help stumble upon a website masquerading as Microsoft or Dell or some other computer maker and end up dialing a listed number that connects them to a fraudulent call center. In other instances, victims are tricked by a pop-up warning that their computer is at risk and that they need to call the number flashing on the screen. Once someone is on the phone, the scammers talk the caller into opening up TeamViewer or another remote-access application on his or her computer, after which they get the victim to read back unique identifying information that allows them to establish control over the computer.
L. flips the script. He starts by playing an unsuspecting target. Speaking in a polite and even tone, with a cadence that conveys naïveté, he follows instructions and allows the scammer to connect to his device. This doesn’t have any of his actual data, however. It is a “virtual machine,” or a program that simulates a functioning desktop on his computer, including false files, like documents with a fake home address. It looks like a real computer that belongs to someone. “I’ve got a whole lot of identities set up,” L. told me. He uses dummy credit-card numbers that can pass a cursory validation check.
The scammer’s connection to L.’s virtual machine is effectively a two-way street that allows L. to connect to the scammer’s computer and infect it with his own software. Once he has done this, he can monitor the scammer’s activities long after the call has ended; sometimes for months, or as long as the software goes undetected. Thus, sitting in his home office, L. is able to listen in on calls between scammer and targets — because these calls are made over the internet, from the scammer’s computer — and watch as the scammer takes control of a victim’s computer. L. acknowledged to me that his access to the scammer’s computer puts him at legal risk; without the scammer’s permission, establishing that access is unlawful. But that doesn’t worry him. “If it came down to someone wanting to prosecute me for accessing a scammer’s computer illegally, I can demonstrate in every single case that the only reason I gained access is because the scammer was trying to steal money from me,” he says.
On occasion, L. succeeds in turning on the scammer’s webcam and is able to record video of the scammer and others at the call center, who can usually be heard on phones in the background. From the I.P. address of the scammer’s computer and other clues, L. frequently manages to identify the neighborhood — and, in some cases, the actual building — where the call center is.
When he encounters a scam in progress while monitoring a scammer’s computer, L. tries to both document and disrupt it, at times using his real-time access to undo the scammer’s manipulations of the victim’s computer. He tries to contact victims to warn them before they lose any money — as he did in the case of Kathleen Langer.
L.’s videos of such episodes have garnered millions of views, making him a faceless YouTube star. He says he hopes his exploits will educate the public and deter scammers. He claims he has emailed the law-enforcement authorities in India offering to share the evidence he has collected against specific call centers. Except for one instance, his inquiries have elicited only form responses, although last year, the police raided a call center that L. had identified in Gurugram, outside Delhi, after it was featured in an investigation aired by the BBC.
Now and then during our Skype conversations, L. would begin monitoring a call between a scammer and a mark and let me listen in. In some instances, I would also hear other call-center employees in the background — some of them making similar calls, others talking among themselves. The chatter evoked a busy workplace, reminding me of my late nights in a Kolkata newsroom, where I began my journalism career 25 years ago, except that these were young men and women working through the night to con people many time zones away. When scammers called me in the past, I tried cajoling them into telling me about their enterprise but never succeeded. Now, with L.’s help, I thought, I might have better luck.
I flew to India at the end of 2019 hoping to visit some of the call centers that L. had identified as homes for scams. Although he had detected many tech-support scams originating from Delhi, Hyderabad and other Indian cities, L. was convinced that Kolkata — based on the volume of activity he was noticing there — had emerged as a capital of such frauds. I knew the city well, having covered the crime beat there for an English-language daily in the mid-1990s, and so I figured that my chances of tracking down scammers would be better there than most other places in India.
I took with me, in my notebook, a couple of addresses that L. identified in the days just before my trip as possible origins for some scam calls. Because the geolocation of I.P. addresses — ascertaining the geographical coordinates associated with an internet connection — isn’t an exact science, I wasn’t certain that they would yield any scammers.
But I did have the identity of a person linked to one of these spots, a young man whose first name is Shahbaz. L. identified him by matching webcam images and several government-issued IDs found on his computer. The home address on his ID matched what L. determined, from the I.P. address, to be the site of the call center where he operated, which suggested that the call center was located where he lived or close by. That made me optimistic I would find him there. In a recording of a call Shahbaz made in November, weeks before my Kolkata visit, I heard him trying to hustle a woman in Ottawa and successfully intimidating and then fleecing an elderly man in the United States.
Image Murlidhar Sharma, a senior police official, whose team raided two call centers in Kolkata in October 2019 based on a complaint from Microsoft. Credit...Prarthna Singh for The New York Times
Although individuals like this particular scammer are the ones responsible for manipulating victims on the phone, they represent only the outward face of a multibillion-dollar criminal industry. “Call centers that run scams employ all sorts of subcontractors,” Puneet Singh, an F.B.I. agent who serves as the bureau’s legal attaché at the U.S. Embassy in New Delhi, told me. These include sellers of phone numbers; programmers who develop malware and pop-ups; and money mules. From the constantly evolving nature of scams — lately I’ve been receiving calls from the “law-enforcement department of the Federal Reserve System” about an outstanding arrest warrant instead of the fake Social Security Administration calls I was getting a year ago — it’s evident that the industry has its share of innovators.
The reasons this activity seems to have flourished in India are much the same as those behind the growth of the country’s legitimate information-technology-services industry after the early 2000s, when many American companies like Microsoft and Dell began outsourcing customer support to workers in India. The industry expanded rapidly as more companies in developed countries saw the same economic advantage in relocating various services there that could be performed remotely — from airline ticketing to banking. India’s large population of English speakers kept labor costs down.
Because the overwhelming majority of call centers in the country are engaged in legitimate business, the ones that aren’t can hide in plain sight. Amid the mazes of gleaming steel-and-glass high-rises in a place like Cyber City, near Delhi, or Sector V in Salt Lake, near Kolkata — two of the numerous commercial districts that have sprung up across the country to nurture I.T. businesses — it’s impossible to distinguish a call center that handles inquiries from air travelers in the United States from one that targets hundreds of Americans every day with fraudulent offers to lower their credit-card interest rates.
The police do periodically crack down on operations that appear to be illegitimate. Shortly after I got to Kolkata, the police raided five call centers in Salt Lake that officials said had been running a tech-support scam. The employees of the call centers were accused of impersonating Microsoft representatives. The police raid followed a complaint by the tech company, which in recent years has increasingly pressed Indian law enforcement to act against scammers abusing the company’s name. I learned from Murlidhar Sharma, a senior official in the city police, that his team had raided two other call centers in Kolkata a couple of months earlier in response to a similar complaint.
“Microsoft had done extensive work before coming to us,” Sharma, who is in his 40s and speaks with quiet authority, told me. The company lent its help to the police in connection with the raids, which Sharma seemed particularly grateful for. Often the police lack the resources to pursue these sorts of cases. “These people are very smart, and they know how to hide data,” Sharma said, referring to the scammers. It was in large part because of Microsoft’s help, he said, that investigators had been able to file charges in court within a month after the raid. A trial has begun but could drag on for years. The call centers have been shut down, at least for now.
Sharma pointed out that pre-emptive raids do not yield the desired results. “Our problem,” he said, “is that we can act only when there’s a complaint of cheating.” In 2017, he and his colleagues raided a call center on their own initiative, without a complaint, and arrested several people. “But then the court was like, ‘Why did the police raid these places?’” Sharma said. The judge wanted statements from victims, which the police were unable to get, despite contacting authorities in the U.S. and U.K. The case fell apart.
The slim chances of detection, and the even slimmer chances of facing prosecution, have seemed to make scamming a career option, especially among those who lack the qualifications to find legitimate employment in India’s slowing economy. Indian educational institutions churn out more than 1.5 million engineers every year, but according to one survey fewer than 20 percent are equipped to land positions related to their training, leaving a vast pool of college graduates — not to mention an even larger population of less-educated young men and women — struggling to earn a living. That would partly explain why call centers run by small groups are popping up in residential neighborhoods. “The worst thing about this crime is that it’s becoming trendy,” Aparajita Rai, a deputy commissioner in the Kolkata Police, told me. “More and more youngsters are investing the crucial years of their adolescence into this. Everybody wants fast money.”
In Kolkata, I met Aniruddha Nath, then 23, who said he spent a week working at a call center that he quickly realized was engaged in fraud. Nath has a pensive air and a shy smile that intermittently cut through his solemnness as he spoke. While finishing his undergraduate degree in engineering from a local college — he took a loan to study there — Nath got a job offer after a campus interview. The company insisted he join immediately, for a monthly salary of about $200. Nath asked me not to name the company out of fear that he would be exposing himself legally.
His jubilation turned into skepticism on his very first day, when he and other fresh recruits were told to simply memorize the contents of the company’s website, which claimed his employer was based in Australia. On a whim, he Googled the address of the Australian office listed on the site and discovered that only a parking garage was located there. He said he learned a couple of days later what he was to do: Call Indian students in Australia whose visas were about to expire and offer to place them in a job in Australia if they paid $800 to take a training course.
Image The Garden Reach area in Kolkata. Credit...Prarthna Singh for The New York Times
On his seventh day at work, Nath said, he received evidence from a student in Australia that the company’s promise to help with job placements was simply a ruse to steal $800; the training the company offered was apparently little more than a farce. “She sent me screenshots of complaints from individuals who had been defrauded,” Nath said. He stopped going in to work the next day. His parents were unhappy, and, he said, told him: “What does it matter to you what the company is doing? You’ll be getting your salary.” Nath answered, “If there’s a raid there, I’ll be charged with fraud.”
Late in the afternoon the day after I met with Nath, I drove to Garden Reach, a predominantly Muslim and largely poor section in southwest Kolkata on the banks of the Hooghly River. Home to a 137-year-old shipyard, the area includes some of the city’s noted crime hot spots and has a reputation for crime and violence. Based on my experience reporting from Garden Reach in the 1990s, I thought it was probably not wise to venture there alone late at night, even though that was most likely the best time to find scammers at work. I was looking for Shahbaz.
Parking my car in the vicinity of the address L. had given me, I walked through a narrow lane where children were playing cricket, past a pharmacy and a tiny store selling cookies and snacks. The apartment I sought was on the second floor of a building at the end of an alley, a few hundred yards from a mosque. It was locked, but a woman next door said that the building belonged to Shahbaz’s extended family and that he lived in one of the apartments with his parents.
Then I saw an elderly couple seated on the steps in the front — his parents, it turned out. The father summoned Shahbaz’s brother, a lanky, longhaired man who appeared to be in his 20s. He said Shahbaz had woken up a short while earlier and gone out on his motorbike. “I don’t know when he goes to sleep and when he wakes up,” his father said, with what sounded like exasperation.
They gave me Shahbaz’s mobile number, but when I called, I got no answer. It was getting awkward for me to wait around indefinitely without disclosing why I was there, so eventually I pulled the brother aside to talk in private. We sat down on a bench at a roadside tea stall, a quarter mile from the mosque. Between sips of tea, I told him that I was a journalist in the United States and wanted to meet his brother because I had learned he was a scammer. I hoped he would pass on my message.
I got a call from Shahbaz a few hours later. He denied that he’d ever worked at a call center. “There are a lot of young guys who are involved in the scamming business, but I’m not one of them,” he said. I persisted, but he kept brushing me off until I asked him to confirm that his birthday was a few days later in December. “Look, you are telling me my exact birth date — that makes me nervous,” he said. He wanted to know what I knew about him and how I knew it. I said I would tell him if he met with me. I volunteered to protect his identity if he answered my questions truthfully.
Two days later, we met for lunch at the Taj Bengal, one of Kolkata’s five-star hotels. I’d chosen that as the venue out of concern for my safety. When he showed up in the hotel lobby, however, I felt a little silly. Physically, Shahbaz is hardly intimidating. He is short and skinny, with a face that would seem babyish but for his thin mustache and beard, which are still a work in progress. He was in his late 20s but had brought along an older cousin for his own safety.
We found a secluded table in the hotel’s Chinese restaurant and sat down. I took out my phone and played a video that L. had posted on YouTube. (Only those that L. shared the link with knew of its existence.) The video was a recording of the call from November 2019 in which Shahbaz was trying to defraud the woman in Ottawa with a trick that scammers often use to arm-twist their victims: editing the HTML coding of the victim’s bank-account webpage to alter the balances. Because the woman was pushing back, Shahbaz zeroed out her balance to make it look as if he had the ability to drain her account. On the call, he can be heard threatening her: “You don’t want to lose all your money, right?”
I watched him shift uncomfortably in his chair. “Whose voice is that?” I asked. “It’s yours, isn’t it?”
Image Aniruddha Nath spent a week on the job at a call center when he realized that it was engaged in fraud. A lack of other opportunities can make such call centers an appealing enterprise. Credit...Prarthna Singh for The New York Times
He nodded in shocked silence. I took my phone back and suggested he drink some water. He took a few sips, gathering himself before I began questioning him. When he mumbled in response to my first couple of questions, I jokingly asked him to summon the bold, confident voice we’d just heard in the recording of his call. He gave me a wan smile.
Pointing to my voice recorder on the table, he asked, meekly, “Is this necessary?”
When his scam calls were already on YouTube, I countered, how did it matter that I was recording our conversation?
“It just makes me nervous,” he said.
Shahbaz told me his parents sent him to one of the city’s better schools but that he flunked out in eighth grade and had to move to a neighborhood school. When his father lost his job, Shahbaz found work riding around town on his bicycle to deliver medicines and other pharmaceutical supplies from a wholesaler to retail pharmacies; he earned $25 a month. Sometime around 2011 or 2012, he told me, a friend took him to a call center in Salt Lake, where he got his first job in scamming, though he didn’t realize right away that that was what he was doing. At first, he said, the job seemed like legitimate telemarketing for tech-support services. By 2015, working in his third job, at a call center in the heart of Kolkata, Shahbaz had learned how to coax victims into filling out a Western Union transfer in order to process a refund for terminated tech-support services. “They would expect a refund but instead get charged,” he told me.
Shahbaz earned a modest salary in these first few jobs — he told me that that first call center, in Salt Lake, paid him less than $100 a month. His lengthy commute every night was exhausting. In 2016 or 2017, he began working with a group of scammers in Garden Reach, earning a share of the profits. There were at least five others who worked with him, he said. All of them were local residents, some more experienced than others. One associate at the call center was his wife’s brother.
He was cagey about naming the others or describing the organization’s structure, but it was evident that he wasn’t in charge. He told me that a supervisor had taught him how to intimidate victims by editing their bank balances. “We started doing that about a year ago,” he said, adding that their group was somewhat behind the curve when it came to adopting the latest tricks of the trade. When those on the cutting edge of the business develop something new, he said, the idea gradually spreads to other scammers.
It was hard to ascertain how much this group was stealing from victims every day, but Shahbaz confessed that he was able to defraud one or two people every night, extracting anywhere from $200 to $300 per victim. He was paid about a quarter of the stolen amount. He told me that he and his associates would ask victims to drive to a store and buy gift cards, while staying on the phone for the entire duration. Sometimes, he said, all that effort was ruined if suspicious store clerks declined to sell gift cards to the victim. “It’s becoming tough these days, because customers aren’t as gullible as they used to be,” he told me. I could see from his point of view why scammers, like practitioners in any field, felt pressure to come up with new methods and scams in response to increasing public awareness of their schemes.
The more we spoke, the more I recognized that Shahbaz was a small figure in this gigantic criminal ecosystem that constitutes the phone-scam industry, the equivalent of a pickpocket on a Kolkata bus who is unlucky enough to get caught in the act. He had never thought of running his own call center, he told me, because that required knowing people who could provide leads — names and numbers of targets to call — as well as others who could help move stolen money through illicit channels. “I don’t have such contacts,” he said. There were many in Kolkata, according to Shahbaz, who ran operations significantly bigger than the one he was a part of. “I know of people who had nothing earlier but are now very rich,” he said. Shahbaz implied that his own ill-gotten earnings were paltry in comparison. He hadn’t bought a car or a house, but he admitted that he had been able to afford to go on overseas vacations with friends. On Facebook, I saw a photo of him posing in front of the Burj Khalifa in Dubai and other pictures from a visit to Thailand.
I asked if he ever felt guilty. He didn’t answer directly but said there had been times when he had let victims go after learning that they were struggling to pay bills or needed the money for medical expenses. But for most victims, his rationale seemed to be that they could afford to part with the few hundred dollars he was stealing.
Shahbaz was a reluctant interviewee, giving me brief, guarded answers that were less than candid or directly contradicted evidence that L. had collected. He was vague about the highest amount he’d ever stolen from a victim, at one point saying $800, then later admitting to $1,500. I found it hard to trust either figure, because on one of his November calls I heard him bullying someone to pay him $5,000. He told me that my visit to his house had left him shaken, causing him to realize how wrong he was to be defrauding people. His parents and his wife were worried about him. And so, he had quit scamming, he told me.
“What did you do last night?” I asked him.
“I went to sleep,” he said.
I knew he was not telling the truth about his claim to have stopped scamming, however. Two days earlier, hours after our phone conversation following my visit to Garden Reach, Shahbaz had been at it again. It was on that night, in fact, that he tried to swindle Kathleen Langer in Crossville, Tenn. Before I came to see him for lunch, I had already heard a recording of that call, which L. shared with me.
When I mentioned that to him, he looked at me pleadingly, in visible agony, as if I’d poked at a wound. It was clear to me that he was only going to admit to wrongdoing that I already had evidence of.
L. told me that the remote access he had to Shahbaz’s computer went cold after I met with him on Dec. 14, 2019. But it buzzed back to life about 10 weeks later. The I.P. address was the same as before, which suggested that it was operating in the same location I visited. L. set up a livestream on YouTube so I could see what L. was observing. The microphone was on, and L. and I could clearly hear people making scam calls in the background. The computer itself didn’t seem to be engaged in anything nefarious while we were eavesdropping on it, but L. could see that Shahbaz’s phone was connected to it. It appeared that Shahbaz had turned the computer on to download music. I couldn’t say for certain, but it seemed that he was taking a moment to chill in the middle of another long night at work.
Here's a translation. Kind of late, but I figured I'd post it anyway in hopes that it may still be useful to someone. If I made any mistakes, please let me know and I'll fix them up, thanks!
Survey here Please enter your game ID (friend code) (お客様のIDを教えてください)
Please enter your age (年齢を教えてください)
First option is under 10 Last option is 70 or over
Please enter your gender (性別を教えてください)
- female (女性)
- male (男性)
- other (その他)
Please select the prefecture you live in. Choose whichever one you want. (お住まいの都道府県を教えてください)
- Hokkaido (北海道)
- Aomori (青森県)
- Iwate (岩手県)
- Miyagi (宮城県)
- Akita (秋田県)
- Yamagata (山形県)
- Fukushima (福島県)
- Ibaraki (茨城県)
- Tochigi (栃木県)
- Gunma (群馬県)
- Saitama (埼玉県)
- Chiba (千葉県)
- Tokyo (東京都)
- Kanagawa (神奈川県)
- Niigata (新潟県)
- Toyama (富山県)
- Ishikawa (石川県)
- Fukui (福井県)
- Yamanashi (山梨県)
- Nagano (長野県)
- Gifu (岐阜県)
- Shizuoka (静岡県)
- Aichi (愛知県)
- Mie (三重県)
- Shiga (滋賀県)
- Kyoto (京都府)
- Osaka (大阪府)
- Hyogo (兵庫県)
- Nara (奈良県)
- Wakayama (和歌山県)
- Tottori (鳥取県)
- Shimane (島根県)
- Okayama (岡山県)
- Hiroshima (広島県)
- Yamaguchi (山口県)
- Tokushima (徳島県)
- Kagawa (香川県)
- Ehime (愛媛県)
- Kochi (高知県)
- Fukuoka (福岡県)
- Saga (佐賀県)
- Nagasaki (長崎県)
- Komamoto (熊本県)
- Oita (大分県)
- Miyazaki (宮崎県)
- Kagoshima (鹿児島県)
- Okinawa (沖縄県)
Please state your profession (ご職業を教えてください)
- Company Employee/Civil Servant (会社員･公務員)
- Company Executive (会社役員)
- Self-employeed/Freelance (自営業/自由業)
- Elementary or Middle Schooler (小･中学生)
- High Schooler (高校生)
- Vocational School Student/College Student (専門学生/大学生)
- Part Timer (パート/アルバイト)
- Full-time house wife/house husband (専業主婦/主夫)
- Unemployed (無職)
- Other (その他)
How long do you use a smartphone or tablet on a given day, for weekdays and holidays? (平日および休日で、1日にスマートフォン･タブレットを利用する時間を教えてください)
Weekdays (平日)
- I don't use a smartphone or tablet (スマートフォン・タブレットは利用しない)
- Under 30 minutes (30分未満)
- 30 minutes to 1 hour (30分～1時間程度)
- 1 to 2 hours (1時間～2時間程度)
- 2 to 3 hours (2時間～3時間程度)
- 3 to 4 hours (3時間～4時間程度)
- 4 to 5 hours (4時間～5時間程度)
- over 5 hours (5時間以上)
Holiday (休日)
- I don't use a smartphone or tablet (スマートフォン・タブレットは利用しない)
- Under 30 minutes (30分未満)
- 30 minutes to 1 hour (30分～1時間程度)
- 1 to 2 hours (1時間～2時間程度)
- 2 to 3 hours (2時間～3時間程度)
- 3 to 4 hours (3時間～4時間程度)
- 4 to 5 hours (4時間～5時間程度)
- over 5 hours (5時間以上)
How much do you spend on your hobbies each month? Also, within that amount, how much do you spend on smart phone games each month? (月に趣味に使う金額はいくらですか。また、そのうちスマートフォンゲームに使う金額はいくらですか)
Money you spend on hobbies (趣味に使う金額)
Within that amount, money you spend on smart phone games (そのうちゲームに使う金額)
(1 yen is about 1 cent these days, so take off two zeroes to covert roughly to dollars.)
What media or services do you normally use? Please choose all that apply. (あなたが普段利用しているメディアやサービスをすべて選んでください)
- LINE
- Twitter
- Facebook
- Instagram
- TikTok
- 17LIVE
- Other Social Network Service (その他のSNS)
- YouTube
- Youtube Live
- Nicovideo (ニコニコ動画)
- Nicovideo live streaming (ニコニコ生放送)
- ABEMA
- Mirrativ
- Netflix
- Hulu
- Amazon Prime Video
- d anime store (dアニメストア)
- GYAO!
- DAZN
- Game app (ゲームアプリ)
- Manga app (マンガアプリ)
- E-book (電子書籍)
- Music app (音楽アプリ)
- Information retrieval system (情報検索)
- Shopping site/app (ショッピングサイト・アプリ)
- Bulletin board site (掲示板（5ちゃんねるなど）)
- Game specialty news site (ゲーム専門のニュースサイト)
- Non-game news site (ゲーム以外のニュースサイト)
- Game strategy guide site (ゲーム攻略サイト)
- Summary Blog/self-run information website (まとめブログ・個人の情報サイト)
- Other (50 character limit) (その他(50字以内))
From the following magazines, please choose the ones you subscribe to. Please limit to the magazines you yourself read. (以下の雑誌のうち、あなたが今購読しているものをすべて選んでください。※ここでの購読は自分が読むために購入したものに限ります)
- Weekly Shonen Jump (週刊少年ジャンプ)
- Weekly Shonen Magazine (週刊少年マガジン)
- Weekly Shonen Champion (週刊少年チャンピオン)
- Weekly Shonen Sunday (週刊少年サンデー)
- Weekly Young Jump (週刊ヤングジャンプ)
- Weekly Young Magazine (週刊ヤングマガジン)
- Young Champion (ヤングチャンピオン)
- Monthly Shounen Magazine (月刊少年マガジン)
- Gessan (Monthly Shonen Sunday) (ゲッサン（月刊少年サンデー）)
- Monthly Shonen Gan Gan (月刊少年ガンガン)
- Monthly Bushiroad (月刊ブシロード)
- Monthly Comic Zero-Sum (月刊コミックゼロサム)
- V Jump (Vジャンプ)
- Weekly Famitsu (週刊ファミ通)
- Dengeki PlayStation (電撃PlayStation)
- Dengeki G's magazine (電撃G's magazine)
- Nintendo DREAM
- App Style (アプリスタイル)
- Comptiq (コンプティーク)
- B's-LOG
- Dragon Magazine (ドラゴンマガジン)
- Newtype（月刊ニュータイプ）
- Animage（アニメージュ）
- VOICE Newtype（ボイスニュータイプ）
- Seiyuu Animedia (声優アニメディア)
- Otomedia (オトメディア)
- Manga Time Kirara (まんがタイムきらら)
- Seiyuu GranPrix (声優グランプリ)
- Seiyuu Paradise R (声優パラダイスR)
- None in particular (特になし)
Please state which home game consoles you currently possess (現在所持している、家庭用ゲーム機を教えてください)
- PlayStation 5
- PlayStation 4 / 4 Pro
- PlayStation VR
- PlayStation Vita / PlayStation Vita TV
- Nintendo Switch / Switch Lite
- Nintendo 3DS / 2DS (ニンテンドー3DS / 2DS)
- Xbox One S / X
- Xbox Series X / S
- None (所持していない)
- Other (50 character limit) (その他(50字以内))
Currently, aside from Fate/Grand Order, please state which apps you've played in the last week. (現在、Fate/Grand Order以外で、1週間以内に遊んだアプリを教えてください)
- Idolmaster Cinderella Girls Starlight Stage (アイドルマスター シンデレラガールズ スターライトステージ)
- Azure Lane (アズールレーン)
- Ensemble Stars!! Music (あんさんぶるスターズ！！Music)
- Arknights (アークナイツ)
- WAR OF THE VISIONS Final Fantasy Brave Exvius Phantom War (WAR OF THE VISIONS ファイナルファンタジー ブレイブエクスヴィアス 幻影戦争)
- Granblue Fantasy (グランブルーファンタジー)
- Genshin Impact (原神)
- Knives Out (荒野行動-スマホ版バトロワ)
- Compass (#コンパス 戦闘摂理解析システム)
- SINoALICE ーシノアリスー
- White Cat Project (白猫プロジェクト)
- Live Commentary Powerful Pro Baseball (実況パワフルプロ野球（パワプロアプリ）)
- Disney: Twisted-Wonderland (ディズニー ツイステッドワンダーランド)
- Dolls Frontline (ドールズフロントライン)
- Dragon Quest Walk (ドラゴンクエストウォーク)
- Dragon Quest Tact (ドラゴンクエストタクト)
- Dragon Ball Legends (ドラゴンボール レジェンズ)
- Dragon Ball Z Dokkan Battle (ドラゴンボールZ ドッカンバトル)
- Seven Deadly Sins (七つの大罪 ～光と闇の交戦（グランドクロス）～)
- The Battle Cats (にゃんこ大戦争)
- Puzzle & Dragons (パズル＆ドラゴンズ)
- Bandori! Girls Band Party! (バンドリ！ ガールズバンドパーティ！)
- PUBG MOBILE
- Fire Emblem Heroes (ファイアーエムブレム ヒーローズ)
- Princess Connect! Re:Dive (プリンセスコネクト！Re:Dive (プリコネR))
- Professional Baseball Spirits A (プロ野球スピリッツA)
- Houchi Shoujo (放置少女 ～百花繚乱の萌姫たち)
- Pokémon GO
- Magia Record (マギアレコード 魔法少女まどか☆マギカ外伝)
- Mafia City (マフィア･シティ-極道風雲)
- Monster Strike (モンスターストライク)
- LINE: Disney TsumuTsumu (LINE： ディズニー ツムツム)
- Love Live! School Idol Festival All Stars (ラブライブ！スクールアイドルフェスティバル ALL STARS)
- Romancing Saga Re Universe (ロマンシング サガ リ･ユニバース)
- I don't play any other titles (他のタイトルは遊ばない)
- Other (50 character limit) (その他(50字以内))
Please state what genres of content you like (好きなコンテンツのジャンルを教えてください)
- Anime (アニメ)
- Manga (マンガ)
- Light novel (小説・ライトノベル)
- Movie (映画)
- Console game (家庭用ゲーム)
- Arcade game (アーケードゲーム)
- PC game (PCゲーム)
- Indie novel/Indie game (同人誌・同人ゲーム)
- Smart phone app (スマートフォンアプリ)
- Browser game (ブラウザゲーム)
- Other (50 character limit) (その他(50字以内))
Please state what genres of game you like (好きなゲームのジャンルを教えてください)
- Command battle RPG (コマンドバトルRPG)
- Action RPG (アクションRPG)
- Turn based RPG (ターン制のシミュレーションRPG)
- 3D dungeon RPG (3DダンジョンRPG)
- Rogue-like RPG (ローグライクRPG)
- Puzzle game (パズルゲーム)
- Action adventure game (アクションアドベンチャーゲーム)
- Text adventure game (テキストアドベンチャーゲーム)
- Fighting game (対戦格闘ゲーム)
- Rhythm game (音楽ゲーム)
- Sports game (スポーツゲーム)
- Shooting game (シューティングゲーム)
- Racing game (レーシングゲーム)
- Real time strategy game (リアルタイムストラテジーゲーム)
- First person shooter / Third Person shooter game (FPS/TPSゲーム)
- Other (50 character limit) (その他(50字以内))
From the following, please select all that apply for what you look for in a smart phone game. (あなたが、スマートフォン向けゲーム(iPhoneやiPad、Androidで遊べるゲームアプリ)に求めるものとして、あてはまるものをすべて選んでください)
- I want to relieve stress (ストレスを解消したい)
- I want to feel accomplished (達成感を味わいたい)
- I want to feel excited (ワクワクしたい)
- I want to use my head (頭を使いたい)
- I want to forget everyday life (日常の生活を忘れたい)
- I want to feel refreshed (爽快感を味わいたい)
- I want to be healed (癒やされたい)
- I want to kill time (暇をつぶしたい)
- I want to have fun with friends, acquaintances, family (友人・知人・家族と楽しみたい)
- I want to win a competition (競争に勝ちたい)
- I want to be immersed in a story (ストーリーに浸りたい)
- I want to interact with other players in game (ゲーム上で他のプレイヤーと交流したい)
- I want to be stimulated (刺激を味わいたい)
- I want to enjoy strategic gameplay (勝負の駆け引きを楽しみたい)
- I want to experience vicariously (疑似体験をしたい)
- I want to be moved (感動したい)
- I want to express myself (自分を表現したい)
- I want to feel superior (優越感を味わいたい)
- I want to be surprised (驚きたい)
- I want to experience character's charms (キャラクターの魅力に触れたい)
- I want to become an inhabitant of that world (その世界の住人になりたい)
- I want to enjoy something popular (流行りのものを楽しみたい)
- Other (50 character limit) (その他(50字以内))
How do you normally get information about Smart phone games? Please choose all that apply. (あなたが、普段スマートフォン向けゲーム(iPhoneやiPad、Androidで遊べるゲームアプリ)の情報を入手する場合、どのような方法で入手していますか。あてはまるものをすべて選んでください)
- TV (テレビ)
- Web Game Related Information Site (Web ゲーム関連情報サイト)
- Web Game Strategy Guide/Review Site (Web ゲーム攻略、レビューサイト)
- Web Bulletin board site (Web 掲示板（５ちゃんねるなど）)
- Web other (Web その他)
- SNS Twitter (timeline) (SNS Twitter（タイムライン）)
- SNS Twitter (Official account) (SNS Twitter（公式アカウント）)
- SNS LINE (Official account) (SNS LINE（公式アカウント）)
- SNS other (SNS その他)
- Video Nicovideo (game live stream) (動画 ニコニコ動画（ゲーム実況）)
- Video Nicovideo (Official live stream) (動画 ニコニコ動画（公式生放送番組）)
- Video Youtube (game live stream) (動画 YouTube（ゲーム実況）)
- Video Youtube (Official live stream) (動画 YouTube（公式生放送番組）)
- Video other (動画 その他)
- App Store Ranking list (アプリストア App StoreやGoogle Playのランキング)
- App Store Featured list (アプリストア App StoreやGoogle Playの特集)
- Publication Game related magazine (出版物 ゲーム関連情報雑誌)
- Publication other magazine (出版物 その他雑誌)
- Publication books other than magazines (出版物 雑誌以外の書籍など)
- Billboards, posters, etc. on stores (屋外の大型ビジョン、ポスターなど)
- Posters or such in train stations or in trains (駅や電車内のポスターなど)
- Word of mouth from friends or family (家族・友人からの口コミ)
- I don't really seek information (特に情報を取得しない)
- Other (50 character limit) (その他(50字以内))
From following, please select all that apply for what caused you to download a smart phone game. (あなたが、スマートフォン向けゲーム(iPhoneやiPad、Androidで遊べるゲームアプリ)をダウンロードするきっかけとして、あてはまるものをすべて選んでください)
- The game was covered by a TV show (テレビ番組で取り上げられているのを見て)
- I saw a TV commercial of it (テレビCMを見て)
- I was it was recommended on the net (ネット上でのオススメアプリやゲームなどの紹介を見て)
- I found out about it on Twitter (Twitterで知って)
- I found out about it on Facebook (Facebookで知って)
- I found out about it on LINE (LINEで知って)
- I saw someone play it on a live stream (ニコニコ動画やYouTubeなどのゲーム実況動画を見て)
- I saw an official live stream of it (ニコニコ生放送やYouTube ライブなどの公式生放送番組を見て)
- I saw it in the top of the rankings in the App Store or Google Play (App StoreやGoogle Playのランキングで上位になっているのを見て)
- I saw it in the featured list in the App Store or Google Play (App StoreやGoogle Playの特集枠で表示されているのを見て)
- I saw it was introduced in a magazine or book (雑誌や書籍で紹介されているのを見て)
- I saw a magazine ad of it (雑誌の広告を見て)
- I saw a billboard or poster of it on a building (屋外の大型ビジョンやポスターを見て)
- I saw a poster of it in a train station or in a train (駅や電車内のポスターを見て)
- I saw a friend, colleague, or family member playing it (友人・同僚・家族が遊んでいるのを見て)
- A friend, colleague, or family member invited me to try it (友人・同僚・家族と一緒にいる時に誘われて)
- I liked the original anime or manga (原作になったアニメやマンガが好きだから)
- I saw a pre-registration campaign (事前登録のキャンペーンを見て)
- I found out a celebrity is playing it (有名人が遊んでいるのを知って)
- The game is popular so I wanted to try it (流行っているゲームで遊んでみたいと思って)
- I found out that a series I like had, or will have, a collaboration event with the game (興味があるコンテンツとのコラボイベントを実施する（した）ことを知って)
- Other (50 character limit) (その他(50字以内))
Please state when you play smart phone games. (スマートフォン向けゲームを遊ぶタイミングについて教えてください。あてはまるものをすべて選んでください)
- Right after waking up (起床後すぐ)
- While eating breakfast (朝食を食べながら)
- While commuting to work / school (通勤･通学中)
- While doing chores (家事をしながら)
- During work / class (仕事中･授業中)
- While eating lunch (昼食を食べながら)
- During breaks at work / school (仕事や授業などの休憩中)
- While traveling via public transit (公共交通機関での移動中)
- While eating dinner (夕食を食べながら)
- While taking a bath (入浴中)
- Before going to sleep (就寝前)
- While watching TV (テレビ番組を見ながら)
- While watching YouTube etc. (YouTubeなどの動画配信を見ながら)
- While in the bathroom (トイレに入りながら)
- Other times when not doing anything in particular (他に何もしていないとき)
- Other (50 character limit) (その他(50字以内))
Please state the reason why you started Fate/Grand Order (Fate/Grand Orderを始めた理由を教えてください)
- I already liked the Fate series (元々Fateシリーズが好きだったので)
- I saw the official site (including pre-registration) (公式サイトを見て（事前登録含む）)
- I saw a TV commercial (テレビCMを見て)
- I watched Fate Project New Year's Eve TV Special First & Next Order (Fate Project 大晦日TVスペシャル～First & Next Order～を見て)
- I watched Fate Project New Year's Eve TV Special 2017 (Fate Project 大晦日 TVスペシャル 2017を見て)
- I watched Fate Project New Year's Eve TV Special 2018 (Fate Project 大晦日 TVスペシャル 2018を見て)
- I watched Fate Project New Year's Eve TV Special 2019 (Fate Project 大晦日 TVスペシャル 2019を見て)
- I watched Fate Project New Year's Eve TV Special 2020 (Fate Project 大晦日 TVスペシャル 2020を見て)
- I watched Fate/Grand Order THE STAGE -Camelot- (Fate/Grand Order THE STAGE -神聖円卓領域キャメロット-を観劇して)
- I watched Fate/Grand Order THE STAGE -Babylonia- (Fate/Grand Order THE STAGE -絶対魔獣戦線バビロニア-を観劇して)
- I watched Fate/Grand Order THE STAGE -Solomon- (Fate/Grand Order THE STAGE -冠位時間神殿ソロモン-を観劇して)
- I watched TV Anime Fate/Grand Order -Babylonia- (TVアニメFate/Grand Order -絶対魔獣戦線バビロニア-を見て)
- I watched Theatrical Release Fate/Grand Order -Camelot- Wandering; Agateram (劇場版Fate/Grand Order -神聖円卓領域キャメロット- Wandering; Agateramを見て)
- I played Fate/Grand Order VR feat. Mash Kyrielight (Fate/Grand Order VR feat.マシュ・キリエライトを遊んで)
- I played Fate/Grand Order Gutentag Omen (Fate/Grand Order Gutentag Omenを遊んで)
- I played Fate/Grand Order Gutentag Omen Adios (Fate/Grand Order Gutentag Omen Adiosを遊んで)
- I played Fate/Grand Order Quest (Fate/Grand Order Questを遊んで)
- I played Fate/Grand Order MyCraft Lostbelt (Fate/Grand Order MyCraft Lostbeltを遊んで)
- I played Fate/Grand Order Arcade (Fate/Grand Order Arcadeを遊んで)
- I played Capsule Servant (カプセルさーばんとを遊んで)
- I played Fate/Grand Order Waltz in the MOONLIGHT/LOSTROOM (Fate/Grand Order Waltz in the MOONLIGHT/LOSTROOMを遊んで)
- I read Manga de Wakaru! (マンガで分かる！Fate/Grand Orderを読んで)
- I watched Douga de Wakaru! (動画で分かる！Fate/Grand Orderを見て)
- I saw Fate/Grand Order channel on SmartNews (SmartNewsの「Fate/Grand Order」チャンネルを見て)
- A friend was playing it (友達が遊んでいたので)
- I saw it on app rankings (アプリのランキングで見かけて)
- I saw it was being talked about on social media (Twitter etc) (SNS（Twitterなど）で話題になっているのを見て)
- I saw a magazine article about it (雑誌の記事を見て)
- I participated in an IRL event (リアルイベントに参加して)
- I saw an official live stream of it on Nicovideo or Youtube etc (ニコニコ生放送やYouTube ライブなどの公式生放送番組を見て)
- I saw it introduced on web media (Webメディアで紹介されているのを見て)
- Other (50 character limit) (その他(50字以内))
When did you start playing Fate/Grand Order? (Fate/Grand Orderを始めたのはいつからですか)
- From service start (サービス開始から(2015年7月～))
- At or after the 2016 New Year event (January 2016~) (2016年お正月イベント以降から(2016年1月～))
- At or after the 1st anniversary event (July 2016~) (1周年記念イベント以降から(2016年7月～))
- At or after the conclusion of Solomon (January 2017~) (第1部完結後(終局特異点 冠位時間神殿 ソロモン終了後)から(2017年1月～))
- At or after the 2nd anniversary event (July 2017~) (2周年記念イベント以降から(2017年7月～))
- At or after the prologue of Part 2 (January 2018~) (第2部プロローグ開始後から(2018年1月～))
- At or after the 3rd anniversary event (July 2018~) (3周年記念イベント以降から(2018年7月～))
- At or after the 2019 New Year event (January 2019~) (2019年お正月イベント以降から(2019年1月～))
- At or after the 4th anniversary event (August 2019~) (4周年記念イベント以降から(2019年8月～))
- At or after the release of Lostbelt No.5 Atlantis (December 2019~) (第2部 第5章「Lostbelt No.5 神代巨神海洋 アトランティス 神を撃ち落とす日」 開始以降から(2019年12月～))
- At or after the release of Lostbelt No.5 Olympus (April 2020~) (第2部 第5章「Lostbelt No.5 星間都市山脈 オリュンポス 神を撃ち落とす日」 開始以降から(2020年4月～))
- At or after the 5th anniversary event (August 2020~) (5周年記念イベント以降から(2020年8月～))
- At or after the release of Lostbelt No.5.5 Heiankyou (December 2020~) (第2部 第5.5章「地獄界曼荼羅 平安京 轟雷一閃」開始以降から(2020年12月～))
How do you normally get information about Fate/Grand Order? Please choose all that apply. (Fate/Grand Orderの情報を普段どのようなメディアで入手しますか。あてはまるものをすべて選んでください)
- Official Twitter Account (公式Twitterアカウント))
- Notice from the developers (official website or in-game) (運営からのおしらせ（公式サイト・ゲーム内いずれも）)
- Official Radio Show Fate/Grand Order Chaldea Radio Station Plus (公式ラジオ番組「Fate/Grand Order カルデア・ラジオ局 Plus」)
- Manga de Wakaru! Fate/Grand Order (マンガで分かる！Fate/Grand Order)
- Douga de Wakaru! Fate/Grand Order (動画で分かる！Fate/Grand Order)
- Fate/Grand Order channel on SmartNews (SmartNewsの「Fate/Grand Order」チャンネル)
- Official LINE account (公式LINEアカウント)
- Non-official Twitter account (公式アカウント以外のTwitterアカウント)
- Facebook
- YouTube
- Nicovideo (ニコニコ動画)
- Non-official live stream (公式生放送以外の生放送)
- Bulletin board site (掲示板（5ちゃんねるなど）)
- Game information specialty magazine (ゲーム情報専門の雑誌)
- Magazine aside from game information specialty magazine (ゲーム情報専門以外の雑誌)
- Game information specialty news site (ゲーム情報専門のニュースサイト)
- Summary blog, self-run game information website (まとめブログなど、個人のゲーム情報サイト)
- Strategy guide wiki, strategy guide website (攻略Wiki・攻略サイト)
- A website aside from those mentioned above (上記以外のWebサイト)
- I don't really seek information (特に情報収集はしない)
- Other (50 character limit) (その他(50字以内))
Within the Fate series, please state your favorite works (up to 3) (Fateシリーズの中で好きな作品を教えてください(3個まで))
Game (ゲーム)
- Fate/stay night
- Fate/stay night [Realta Nua](PC、PS2、Vita、スマートフォン版)
- Fate/unlimited codes(アーケード、PS2、PSP版)
- Fate/hollow ataraxia(PC、Vita版)
- Fate/EXTRA
- Fate/EXTRA CCC
- Fate/EXTELLA(PC、Vita、PS4、Switch、スマートフォン版)
- Fate/EXTELLA LINK(PC、Vita、PS4、Switch、スマートフォン版)
- Fate/Grand Order
- Fate/Grand Order VR feat.マシュ･キリエライト
- Fate/Grand Order Arcade
- Fate/Grand Order Gutentag Omen
- Fate/Grand Order Gutentag Omen Adios
- Fate/Grand Order Quest
- Fate/Grand Order MyCraft Lostbelt
- Capsule Servant カプセルさーばんと
- Fate/Grand Order Waltz in the MOONLIGHT/LOSTROOM
Anime (アニメ)
- Fate/stay night
- Theatrical Release Fate/stay night - UNLIMITED BLADE WORKS (劇場版 Fate/stay night - UNLIMITED BLADE WORKS)
- Fate/Zero
- Fate/stay night [Unlimited Blade Works]
- Fate/Prototype
- Theatrical Release Fate/stay night [Heaven's Feel] (劇場版 Fate/stay night [Heaven's Feel])
- Fate/Apocrypha
- Fate/Grand Order -First Order-
- Fate/Grand Order -MOONLIGHT/LOSTROOM-
- Fate/EXTRA Last Encore
- Today's Menu for the Emiya Family (衛宮さんちの今日のごはん)
- Fate/kaleid liner Prisma Illya (Fate/kaleid liner プリズマ☆イリヤ)
- Theatrical Release Fate/kaleid liner Prisma Illya Oath Under Snow (劇場版 Fate/kaleid liner プリズマ☆イリヤ 雪下の誓い)
- Fate/kaleid liner Prisma Illya Prisma Phantasm (Fate/kaleid liner Prisma☆Illya プリズマ☆ファンタズム)
- Lord El-Melloi II's Case Files {Rail Zeppelin} Grace note (ロード・エルメロイⅡ世の事件簿 -魔眼蒐集列車 Grace note-)
- Fate/Grand Order Absolute Demonic Front: Babylonia (Fate/Grand Order -絶対魔獣戦線バビロニア-)
- Theatrical Release Fate/Grand Order -Camelot- Wandering; Agateram (劇場版Fate/Grand Order -神聖円卓領域キャメロット- Wandering; Agateram)
Book (書籍)
- Fate/Zero
- Fate/Apocrypha
- Fate/strange Fake
- Fate/Prototype Fragments of Sky Silver (Fate/Prototype 蒼銀のフラグメンツ)
- Fate/Prototype-Animation material-
- Fate/Labyrinth
- Fate/Requiem
- Lord El-Melloi II's Case Files (ロード・エルメロイⅡ世の事件簿)
- Lord El-Melloi II's Adventure (ロード･エルメロイⅡ世の冒険)
- FGO Mystery Murder at the KOGETSUKAN (FGOミステリー 翻る虚月館の告解 虚月館殺人事件)
- FGO Mystery Murder at the MEISOU-HOU (FGOミステリー 惑う鳴鳳荘の考察 鳴鳳荘殺人事件)
- Fate/kaleid liner Prisma Illya (Fate/kaleid liner プリズマ☆イリヤ)
- Fate/EXTRA CCC VOID LOG:BLOOM ECHO
- Fate/EXTRA MOON LOG:TYPEWRITER
Comic (コミック)
- Fate/stay night
- Fate/stay night [Heaven's Feel]
- Fate/hollow ataraxia
- Fate/Zero
- Fate/Apocrypha
- Fate/Extra (フェイト/エクストラ)
- Fate/Extra CCC (フェイト/エクストラ CCC)
- Fate/Extra CCC FoxTail (フェイト/エクストラ CCC FoxTail)
- Fate/Grand Order -turas realta-
- Fate/Grand Order -mortalis:stella-
- Fate/Grand Order -Epic of Remnant- Shinjuku (Fate/Grand Order -Epic of Remnant- 亜種特異点Ⅰ 悪性隔絶魔境 新宿 新宿幻霊事件)
- Fate/Grand Order -Epic of Remnant- Agartha (Fate/Grand Order -Epic of Remnant- 亜種特異点Ⅱ 伝承地底世界 アガルタ アガルタの女)
- Fate/Grand Order -Epic of Remnant- Shimousa (Fate/Grand Order -Epic of Remnant- 亜種特異点Ⅲ/亜種並行世界 屍山血河舞台 下総国 英霊剣豪七番勝負)
- Fate/Grand Order -Epic of Remnant- Salem (Fate/Grand Order -Epic of Remnant- 亜種特異点Ⅳ 禁忌降臨庭園 セイレム 異端なるセイレム)
- Fate/Grand Order -Epic of Remnant- SE.RA.PH (Fate/Grand Order -Epic of Remnant- 亜種特異点EX 深海電脳楽土 SE.RA.PH)
- Manga de Wakaru! Fate/Grand Order (マンガで分かる！Fate/Grand Order)
- Koha-Ace (コハエース)
- Koha-Ace GO Strange Tales of the Imperial Holy Grail (コハエースGO 帝都聖杯奇譚)
- Himuro no Tenchi Fate/school life (氷室の天地 Fate/school life)
- Today's Menu for the Emiya Family (衛宮さんちの今日のごはん)
- Fate/strange Fake
- Lord El-Melloi II's Case Files (ロード・エルメロイⅡ世の事件簿)
- Fate/kaleid liner Prisma Illya (Fate/kaleid liner プリズマ☆イリヤ)
- Fate/Grand Order Duel YA特異点 密室遊戯魔境 渋谷 渋谷決闘事件
- ALL AROUND TYPE-MOON～アーネンエルベの日常～
- Teach me FGO! The Grand Order of Great Men and Legends (教えてFGO! 偉人と神話のぐらんどおーだー)
- Fate/mahjong night 聖牌戦争
- Fate/Grand Order (something about cooking) (Fate/Grand Order 英霊食聞録)
- Fate/Grand Order From Lostbelt (Fate/Grand Order フロム ロストベルト)
- Fate/Grand Order Fujimaru Ritsuka Doesn't Get It (Fate/Grand Order 藤丸立香はわからない)
- Strange Tales of the Imperial Holy Grail Fate/type Redline (帝都聖杯奇譚 Fate/type Redline)
Board Game (ボードゲーム)
- Fate/Grand Order Duel -collection figure-
- Dominate Grail War -Fate/stay night on Board Game-
Other (50 character limit) (その他(50字以内))
Please state how satisfied you were with Theatrical Release Fate/Grand Order -Camelot- Wandering; Agateram (「劇場版Fate/Grand Order -神聖円卓領域キャメロット- Wandering; Agateram」の満足度を教えてください)
- Very satisfied (大いに満足している)
- Satisfied (満足している)
- It's all right (普通)
- Unsatisfied (不満)
- Very unsatisfied (大いに不満)
- I haven't watched it (映画を見ていない)
Please explain your answer to the above question (optional) (上記でお答えいただいた回答の理由を教えてください(任意))
- (50 character limit) (50字以内)
How often do you play Fate/Grand Order? (Fate/Grand Orderをどのくらいの頻度でプレイしますか)
- Basically every day (ほぼ毎日)
- 4 to 5 days a week (週に4～5日程度)
- 2 to 3 days a week (週に2～3日程度)
- 1 day a week (週に1日程度)
- 2 to 3 days a month (月に2～3日程度)
- 1 day a month (月に1日程度)
- Less than 1 day a month (それ以下の頻度)
Please state how long you play Fate/Grand Order in a day (Fate/Grand Orderの1日のプレイ時間を教えてください)
- I just login (ログインのみ)
- Less than 10 minutes (10分未満)
- 10 to 30 minutes (10分～30分程度)
- 30 minutes to 1 hour (30分～1時間程度)
- 1 to 2 hours (1時間～2時間程度)
- 2 to 3 hours (2時間～3時間程度)
- over 3 hours (3時間以上)
Within the main story of Fate/Grand Order, please state which story chapter is your favorite. (Fate/Grand Orderのメインクエストの中で一番好きな章を教えてください)
- Fuyuki (特異点F 炎上汚染都市 冬木)
- Orleans (第一特異点 邪竜百年戦争 オルレアン)
- Septem (第二特異点 永続狂気帝国 セプテム)
- Okeanos (第三特異点 封鎖終局四海 オケアノス)
- London (第四特異点 死界魔霧都市 ロンドン)
- E Pluribus Unum (第五特異点 北米神話大戦 イ・プルーリバス・ウナム)
- Camelot (第六特異点 神聖円卓領域 キャメロット)
- Babylonia (第七特異点 絶対魔獣戦線 バビロニア)
- Solomon (終局特異点 冠位時間神殿 ソロモン)
- Shinjuku (亜種特異点Ⅰ 悪性隔絶魔境 新宿 新宿幻霊事件)
- Agartha (亜種特異点Ⅱ 伝承地底世界 アガルタ アガルタの女)
- Shimousa (亜種特異点Ⅲ 屍山血河舞台 下総国 英霊剣豪七番勝負)
- Salem (亜種特異点Ⅳ 禁忌降臨庭園 セイレム 異端なるセイレム)
- Part 2 Prologue (第2部プロローグ「序」)
- Anastasia (Lostbelt No.1 永久凍土帝国 アナスタシア 獣国の皇女)
- Gotterdammerung (Lostbelt No.2 無間氷焔世紀 ゲッテルデメルング 消えぬ炎の快男児)
- SIN (Lostbelt No.3 人智統合真国 シン 紅の月下美人)
- Yuga Kshetra (Lostbelt No.4 創世滅亡輪廻 ユガ･クシェートラ 黒き最後の神)
- Atlantis (Lostbelt No.5 神代巨神海洋 アトランティス 神を撃ち落とす日)
- Olympus (Lostbelt No.5 星間都市山脈 オリュンポス 神を撃ち落とす日)
- Heiankyou (地獄界曼荼羅 平安京 轟雷一閃)
- None in particular (特になし)
Among the Fate/Grand Order in-game events held in 2020, please state which event was the most fun. (Fate/Grand Orderが2020年中に開催したゲーム内イベントの中で一番楽しかったイベントを教えてください。)
- Rerun: Enmatei (復刻:雀のお宿の活動日誌～閻魔亭繁盛記～ ライト版)
- Amazoness.com (救え！ アマゾネス･ドットコム ～CEOクライシス2020～)
- Valentine 2020 (バレンタイン2020 いみじかりしバレンタイン ～紫式部と５人のパリピギャル軍団～)
- Aeaean Spring Breeze (アイアイエーの春風 ～魔女と愉快な仲間と新しい冒険～)
- Chaldea Boys Collection 2020 (カルデアボーイズコレクション2020)
- Rerun: Apocrypha/Inheritance of Glory -Triumphal- (復刻版:Apocrypha/Inheritance of Glory -Triumphal-)
- Rerun: Guda Guda Final Honnouji 2019 (復刻:オール信長総進撃 ぐだぐだファイナル本能寺2019 ライト版)
- Fate/Requiem (『Fate/Requiem』盤上遊戯黙示録)
- Rerun: Las Vegas Official Bout (復刻:見参！ ラスベガス御前試合～水着剣豪七色勝負！ ライト版)
- Rerun: Ooku (復刻:徳川廻天迷宮 大奥)
- Rerun: All The Statesmen! (復刻:オール･ザ･ステイツメン! ～マンガで分かる合衆国開拓史～)
- Servant Summer Camp (サーヴァント･サマーキャンプ！ ～カルデア･スリラーナイト～)
- Dance Tournament in the Land of Shadows (影の国の舞闘会 ～ネコとバニーと聖杯戦争～)
- Guda Guda Yamataikoku 2020 (超古代新選組列伝 ぐだぐだ邪馬台国2020)
- Rerun Christmas 2019 (復刻:クリスマス2019 ナイチンゲールのクリスマス･キャロル ライト版)
- Imaginary Scramble (虚数大海戦イマジナリ･スクランブル ～ノーチラス浮上せよ～)
- Glorious Santa Road (栄光のサンタクロース･ロード ～封じられたクリスマスプレゼント～)
- None in particular (特になし)
What do you think about the story of Fate/Grand Order? Please select all that apply. (Fate/Grand Orderのシナリオについて、どのように感じますか。以下からあてはまるものをすべて選んでください。)
- The story is more interesting than expected (シナリオが期待以上に面白い)
- The story is about as interesting as expected (シナリオが期待通りの面白さである)
- The story is less interesting than expected (シナリオが期待していたよりもつまらない)
- The story has a lot of content (シナリオの量が多い)
- The story has the right amount of content (シナリオの量がちょうどよい)
- The story doesn't have a lot of content (シナリオの量が少ない)
- Please add more to the story (シナリオをもっと追加してほしい)
- The amount of additions to the story is just right (シナリオの追加量がちょうどよい)
- The story additions are plentiful (シナリオの追加が豊富)
- Other (50 character limit) その他(50字以内)
What do you think about the battles of Fate/Grand Order? Please select all that apply. (Fate/Grand Orderのバトルについて、どのように感じますか。以下からあてはまるものをすべて選んでください。)
- The battle difficulty is hard (バトルの難易度が難しい)
- The battle difficulty is just right (バトルの難易度がちょうどよい)
- The battle difficulty is easy (バトルの難易度が簡単)
- Battles take a long time (バトルにかかる時間が長い)
- Battle length is just right (バトルにかかる時間がちょうどよい)
- Battles are short (バトルにかかる時間が短い)
- The battle animations are sluggish (バトルの動作が重い)
- The battle animations are good (バトルの動作が快適)
- Other (50 character limit) (その他(50字以内))
What do you think about the number of servants in the game? Please select the answer that fits best. (Fate/Grand Orderで実装されるサーヴァントの数についてどのように感じますか。もっともあてはまるものを選んでください。)
- Not a lot (少ない)
- Kind of few (やや少ない)
- Just right (ちょうどよい)
- Kind of a lot (やや多い)
- A lot (多い)
What do you look for most in a servant? Please select all that apply. (Fate/Grand Orderで実装されるサーヴァントに求めるものは何でしょうか。以下からあてはまるものをすべて選んでください。)
- The servant participates in the main story (サーヴァントがメインストーリーで活躍すること)
- The servant participates in an event story (サーヴァントがイベントストーリーで活躍すること)
- The servant has interludes (サーヴァントの幕間の物語が充実すること)
- The servant is powerful in game (ゲーム内での性能が良いこと)
- NP animation is stylish (宝具演出が豪華であること)
- The source material is popular (原典となる存在の知名度が高いこと)
- Who the voice actor is (サーヴァントのCVを務める声優が誰であるか)
- Who the illustrator is (サーヴァントのイラストレーターが誰であるか)
- Other (50 character limit) (その他(50字以内))
What do you think about the frequency of in-game events held in Fate/Grand Order? Please choose the answer that fits bests. (Fate/Grand Orderで開催されるゲーム内イベントの開催頻度について、どのように感じますか。もっともあてはまるものを選んでください)
- Infrequent (少ない)
- Somewhat infrequent (やや少ない)
- Just right (ちょうどよい)
- Somewhat frequent (やや多い)
- Frequent (多い)
What do you think about the participation requirements of in-game events held in Fate/Grand Order? Please choose the answer that fits bests. (Fate/Grand Orderで開催されるゲーム内イベントの参加条件について、どのように感じますか。もっともあてはまるものを選んでください)
- Strict (厳しい)
- Somewhat strict (やや厳しい)
- Just right (ちょうどよい)
- Somewhat lax (やや緩い)
- Lax (緩い)
What do you think about the duration of in-game events held in Fate/Grand Order? Please choose the answer that fits bests. (Fate/Grand Orderで開催されるゲーム内イベントの開催期間について、どのように感じますか。もっともあてはまるものを選んでください)
- Long (長い)
- Somewhat long (やや長い)
- Just right (ちょうどよい)
- Somewhat short (やや短い)
- Short (短い)
What do you think about the amount of story for in-game events held in Fate/Grand Order? Please choose the answer that fits bests. (Fate/Grand Orderで開催されるゲーム内イベントのシナリオの量について、どのように感じますか。もっともあてはまるものを選んでください)
- A lot (多い)
- Somewhat much (やや多い)
- Just right (ちょうどよい)
- Somewhat little (やや少ない)
- Little (少ない)
From the following, please select all that apply for what you look for in Fate/Grand Order in-game events. (Fate/Grand Orderで開催されるゲーム内イベントに求めるものとして、あてはまるものをすべて選んでください)
- I want to enjoy a story with an atmosphere that is not present in the main story (メインストーリーにはない雰囲気のストーリーを楽しみたい)
- I want to enjoy a story with a seasonal feeling (季節感のあるストーリーを楽しみたい)
- I want to enjoy a more light-hearted story (もっと明るいストーリーを楽しみたい)
- I want to enjoy a more serious story (もっとシリアスなストーリーを楽しみたい)
- I want to enjoy a story that gives servants more character development (もっとキャラクターを掘り下げたストーリーを楽しみたい)
- I want to enjoy a story that explains in detail the world setting (もっと世界設定などを詳しく説明するストーリーを楽しみたい)
- I want to enjoy event only game mechanics (イベントならではのゲームシステムを楽しみたい)
- I want to enjoy collabs with other works (他作品とのコラボを楽しみたい)
- I want to get new servants (キャラクターを入手したい)
- I want to get new craft essences (概念礼装を入手したい)
- I want to get strengthening materials (強化素材を入手したい)
- I want to get costumes (霊衣開放権を入手したい)
- I want to kill time (暇をつぶしたい)
- Nothing in particular (特になし)
- Other (50 character limit) (その他(50字以内))
If any out of game Fate/Grand Order events are held in 2021, would you want to attend in person? Please select all that apply. (2021年にFate/Grand Orderのゲーム外イベントが開催される場合、会場で参加したいと考えますか 。以下からあてはまるものをすべて選んでください。)
- I want to attend in person (会場で参加したい)
- I want to attend in person as long as robust anti-infection precautions are in place (感染対策がしっかりしていれば会場で参加したい)
- I want to attend if COVID19 has gone away (新型コロナウイルスが落ち着いていたら会場で参加したい)
- I want to attend if it's an online event (オンラインイベントであれば参加したい)
- I don't want to attend an in person or an online event (リアル/オンラインとも参加したくない)
What developments do you want in Fate/Grand Order? Please pick 3. (今後、Fate/Grand Orderにどんな展開をしてほしいですか。3つお答えください)
- TV Anime (TVアニメ)
- Anime Movie (劇場アニメ)
- Drama CD (ドラマCD)
- Stage Play (舞台)
- Comic (コミカライズ)
- Novel (ノベライズ)
- Console Game (家庭用ゲーム版)
- Fighting Game (格闘ゲーム)
- Orchestra Concert (オーケストラ・コンサート)
- Collaboration Cafe (コラボカフェ)
- Real Event (リアルイベント)
- Nothing in particular (特になし)
- Other (50 character limit) その他(50字以内)
The questions within the blue box are for those who have not played Fate/Grand Order in over a month. For everyone else, please choose the last option. (Fate/Grand Orderを1ヵ月以上遊ばなくなったことがある方へ質問です。)
Please state why you stopped playing. *For those who have not stopped playing for over a month, please select "I have not stopped playing for over a month" (遊ばなくなった理由で、あてはまるものをすべて選んでください ※1ヵ月以上遊ばなくなったことがない方は「1ヵ月以上遊ばなくなったことはない」を選んでください。)
- Because the story is boring (ストーリーがつまらないから)
- Because the game has no sense of excitement (ゲームに爽快感がないから)
- Because the characters are not interesting (キャラクターが魅力的ではないから)
- Because the events have become monotonous (イベントが単調になってきたから)
- Because the pace of new events being added to the game is slow (イベントの実施ペースが少ないと感じていたから)
- Because I was waiting for new Main Story updates (メインストーリーの更新を待っていたから)
- Because people around me stopped playing the game (周囲で遊ぶ人が少なくなったから)
- Because I couldn't figure out how to play the game well (どう遊んでいいのかよく分からなかったから)
- Because the setting is too hard to get into and I couldn't keep up with it (世界観が難しくてついていけなかったから)
- Because school, work, or such have been busy so I don't have time to play (学業、仕事などが忙しく遊ぶ時間がなかったから)
- Becaue I was playing other games (他のゲームをプレイしていたから)
- I have not stopped playing for over a month (1ヵ月以上遊ばなくなったことはない)
- Other (50 character limit) (その他(50字以内)
Please state why you started playing again. *For those who have not stopped playing for over a month, please select "I have not stopped playing for over a month" (再び遊ぶようになった理由で、あてはまるものをすべて選んでください。 ※1ヵ月以上遊ばなくなったことがない方は「1ヵ月以上遊ばなくなったことはない」を選んでください。)
- Because the story seemed interesting (ストーリーが面白そうに見えたから)
- Because it seemed like the game became easier to play (ゲームがより遊びやすそうになったと感じたから)
- Because interesting characters appeared (魅力的なキャラクターが登場したから)
- Because a collab event got implemented (コラボイベントが実施されたから)
- Because a new non-collab event seemed interesting (コラボ以外の新しいイベントが面白そうだったから)
- Because the frequency of event or story updates went up (イベントや、ストーリー更新の頻度が高くなってきたから)
- Because more people around me started playing the game (周囲で遊ぶ人が増えてきたから)
- Because I watched Douga de Wakaru! Fate/Grand Order and I got a better understanding of the game (動画で分かる！Fate/Grand Orderを見てゲームへの理解が深まったから)
- Because I experienced another work in the Fate series and I was able to understand the setting (他のFateシリーズに触れて世界観を理解したから)
- Because I found time to play (プレイする時間ができたから)
- I have not stopped playing for over a month (1ヵ月以上遊ばなくなったことはない)
- Other (50 character limit) (その他(50字以内))
Please state what aspects of Fate/Grand Order you like and what you are looking forward to (Fate/Grand Orderの好きな部分、期待していることを教えてください)
- Story, Setting (シナリオ、世界観)
- Game volume (ゲームボリューム)
- Characters (キャラクター)
- Graphics (グラフィック)
- Voices, Voice Actors (ボイス、声優)
- Illustrators (イラストレーター)
- Feeling of excitement (爽快感)
- Replay value (やりこみ要素)
- Lightheartedness (気軽さ)
- Topicality (話題性)
- Music, BGM (楽曲、BGM)
- Battle, Strategy (バトル、戦略性)
- Summon (召喚)
- Craft Essence (概念礼装)
- Servant Strengthening, Ascension (サーヴァントの強化、霊基再臨)
- Events, Campaigns (イベント、キャンペーン)
- Fate/Grand Order Chaldea Live Stream Program (Fate/Grand Order カルデア放送局)
- Fate/Grand Order Chaldea Radio Program (Fate/Grand Order カルデア･ラジオ局 Plus)
- Masu Masu Manga de Wakaru! Fate/Grand Order (ますますマンガで分かる！Fate/Grand Order)
- Douga de Wakaru! Fate/Grand Order (動画で分かる！Fate/Grand Order)
- Nothing in particular (特になし)
- Other (50 character limit) (その他(50字以内))
Please state what aspects of Fate/Grand Order you want to be improved (Fate/Grand Orderの改善してほしいところを教えてください)
- Story, Setting (シナリオ、世界観)
- Game volume (ゲームボリューム)
- Characters (キャラクター)
- Graphics (グラフィック)
- Voices, Voice Actors (ボイス、声優)
- Illustrators (イラストレーター)
- Feeling of excitement (爽快感)
- Replay value (やりこみ要素)
- Lightheartedness (気軽さ)
- Topicality (話題性)
- Music, BGM (楽曲、BGM)
- Battle, Strategy (バトル、戦略性)
- Summon (召喚)
- Craft Essence (概念礼装)
- Servant Strengthening, Ascension (サーヴァントの強化、霊基再臨)
- Events, Campaigns (イベント、キャンペーン)
- Fate/Grand Order Chaldea Live Stream Program (Fate/Grand Order カルデア放送局)
- Fate/Grand Order Chaldea Radio Program (Fate/Grand Order カルデア･ラジオ局 Plus)
- Masu Masu Manga de Wakaru! Fate/Grand Order (ますますマンガで分かる！Fate/Grand Order)
- Douga de Wakaru! Fate/Grand Order (動画で分かる！Fate/Grand Order)
- Nothing in particular (特になし)
- Other (50 character limit) (その他(50字以内))
Are there any works you want a collab with? (Optional) (50 character limit) (今後コラボしてほしい作品はありますか(任意) (50字以内))
Regarding Fate/Grand Order, if there is anything else you're looking forward to, or opinions, or requests, please state below. (Optional) (400 character limit) (その他、Fate/Grand Orderに期待することや、ご意見･ご要望がございましたらご記入ください(任意) (400字以内))
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