A poll conducted at AionSource has received over 1,000 votes and reveals some pretty telling statistics about how the population is feeling about Aion as the game nears its third week mark. The poll asks players if they will be renewing their subscriptions after the first free month, and as of this writing roughly 59% of North American players who answered the poll said yes, while only 9% say they will cancel.

The poll results can be viewed here.

So, how are you feeling about Aion at this point? Have you decided whether or not you will be renewing your subscription after your free month is up?  I'm also trying something new, and have added our own poll to the comments section of this story. So vote and let us know your thoughts!

Oh yeah this game has lots of potential.

I will be, I will probably buy a 3-6 month bundle as well.

 In my opinion 1000 votes aren't realistic for an MMORPG statistic.

Yup, I have no plans on leaving.

This has "SPIN" all over it.

Lets see if they do this poll 6 to 9 months from now.

There is no mention of the thousands that don't care enough to fill out the poll.

The big thing to me isn't really the queue times (I usually play during morning and early afternoon, so thats not much of a problem for me). The big deal to me is all of the gold spammers. I don't hate the gold selling industry immensely or anything, but I literally cant talk in general chat or the find group chat because of how many gold spammers there are! They are litterally flicking by so fast I can't even read them unless I scroll up! It's crazy. It seems with things that blatant, a GM could just sit on a server and start banning all the accounts that are OBVIOUSLY infringing the EULA. Maybe its just me, I dont know. I'm having a great time and loving the game, but I can't communicate with the community on my server (Lumiel).

Originally posted by vladakov

 In my opinion 1000 votes aren't realistic for an MMORPG statistic.

^ also a very good point!

 And also, people who already cancelled their account, why would they bother to be on the the aionsource site, they probably disliked the game, so why go to an aion website if you disliked the game anyway? i find this poll NON USEABLE

Originally posted by FuRyluzt

Originally posted by vladakov

 In my opinion 1000 votes aren't realistic for an MMORPG statistic.

 

^ also a very good point!

Actually it depends on their sampling methods. Often political polls that only sample a few thousands can be accurate (up to a few percentage points) in predicting election results where millions (or more) vote are cast.

Statistics is a wonderful thing if you know how to do it correctly.

Originally posted by vladakov

 And also, people who already cancelled their account, why would they bother to be on the the aionsource site, they probably disliked the game, so why go to an aion website if you disliked the game anyway? i find this poll NON USEABLE

This right here.
 

Everyone is on the "honeymoon" phase at the moment. I would like to see how this poll sums up in three months.

Originally posted by nariusseldon

Originally posted by FuRyluzt

Originally posted by vladakov

 In my opinion 1000 votes aren't realistic for an MMORPG statistic.

 

^ also a very good point!

 

Actually it depends on their sampling methods. Often political polls that only sample a few thousands can be accurate (up to a few percentage points) in predicting election results where millions (or more) vote are cast.

Statistics is a wonderful thing if you know how to do it correctly.

The problem with this particular research is the way it was conducted. It would be like asking from people who have just bought a candy bar A, out of all of the candy bars, which candy bar they do prefer the most. If someone logs in to aionsource.com she is likely interested from the game the site is devoted, which, in all likelihood, gives a bit different result than you would get from choosing a random sample of thousand players. This is what a statistically well made poll would require and it is the way in which they do perform those political polls. As it stands now, it says that people who are interested enough from the game to log into an out-of-game information and discussion site are happy with the game. I do think that mmorpg.com would do itself a favour to use some thought as of what it does publish. Or, at the very least they should bother to properly analyse what the result actually does mean.

Addendum: This is in no fashion ment to say that the game would per se be a bad one or that it wouldn't be entitled to have a high retention rate, just that this study does not show that albeit it tries to imply that.

Compelling findings, but Aionsource is not a representative sample.  Clearly the people who read aionsource and take the time to answer the poll are more interested in the game than the average player.  

I voted 'no,' the game stopped being fun at level 15...and didn't look like it was going to change

Such polls arent very accurate as simple players just play games without logging to forums, so do only fans and addicted, satisfied players who like to talk about game ( at least I see it this way).

Poll I would trust would be made ingame. Still numbers would be terrible for company so we wont see such things.

This is way too early to scream Victory or Fail for this game, especially from a forum poll

Originally posted by vladakov

 And also, people who already cancelled their account, why would they bother to be on the the aionsource site, they probably disliked the game, so why go to an aion website if you disliked the game anyway? i find this poll NON USEABLE

I stopped going to AionSouce a while ago, right around the time I canceled my account. How right you are.

Originally posted by FuRyluzt

Originally posted by vladakov

 In my opinion 1000 votes aren't realistic for an MMORPG statistic.

 

^ also a very good point!

It is a much larger percentage of the population than is polled for most other purposes.

Say, TV ratings or political climate.

Originally posted by ElendilasX

Such polls arent very accurate as simple players just play games without logging to forums, so do only fans and addicted, satisfied players who like to talk about game ( at least I see it this way).

Poll I would trust would be made ingame. Still numbers would be terrible for company so we wont see such things.

Odd

Most of the people I see on any given forum (especially this one) are people with axes to grind.

People don't usually go to the forums because they are happy, they go to the forums to complain.

Originally posted by Nightbringe1

Originally posted by FuRyluzt

Originally posted by vladakov

 In my opinion 1000 votes aren't realistic for an MMORPG statistic.

 

^ also a very good point!

 

It is a much larger percentage of the population than is polled for most other purposes.

Say, TV ratings or political climate.

Tv ratings and political statistics are always, i can ensure you, always with more then 1000 votes, its an MMO, massively multiplayer, 1000 people are not realistic. if there are political/tv statistics with with only 1000 opinions, then its a bad rating in my opinion. but its also the folks who check out aionsource, why would people who disliked the game go to aionsource site?