Anyone who spends at least 10 minutes in any popular gaming forum or discord server knows very well that every gamer (probably 9 out 10) in the hates cryptos, especially pc gamers cos they blame miners for the GPU shortage and the massive price increase in gpus (because the demand is so high)
i do believe the NFT part, a lot of companies in the gaming industry took advantage of the NFT hype with tons of marketing and made bank
This is also the first thing that comes to my mind, I mean how can we verify the result of the survey itself? And why would the gamers be interested on crypto or metaverse.
And the same reasoning as yours, since the bull run of 2017 and then followed by the problems with AMD and other makers of GPU having shortage because of crypto enthusiast buying them in bunch for rigs and to mine crypto, there seems to be a hate relationship between this two industries.
The survey is just a scheme to promote something. It doesn't represent the whole target audience. I am a gamer but don't hate crypto miners for the increase of GPU price rather thankful to them because occasionally there are lots of 2nd hand GPUs in good condition that sells way cheaper than buying brand new.
Crypto and metaverse bind perfectly so whenever a player is into Metaverse, he will automatically expect NFTs and blockchain stuff.