Results of the first Orkfian Survey – May 2008

May 31st, 2008The Orkfian Times3 comments

I made a short survey earlier this month which I posted in the AatW and Classic forums. In addition there were further answers pm’ed to staff in response to mailers sent out by Martel and Acwder. The survey was left running for just over 3 weeks, there were a few duplications due to people playing both versions of the games so those were taken out and we were left with 76 unique questionnaires. I collected the results today and have grouped similar answers together to give us an overall summary of the kind of people you are..the kind of people that play Orkfia… (NB question 1 on the survey was “what is your name” but I didn’t think there was any point in grouping those answers )

Q1: When did you first play Orkfia?
Answers were as follows:
1 Year or less = 2 Orkfians
2 years or less = 10 Orkfians
3 years or less = 11 Orkfians
4 years or less = 4 Orkfians
5 years or more = 49 Orkfians
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Q2: How did you hear about Orkfia?
Answers were as follows:
Another game/forum = 7 Orkfians
Through Utopia specifically = 12 Orkfians
A voting site = 2 Orkfians
Google search for a new game to play = 2 Orkfians
“My Brother” = 7 Orkfians
Friend = 26 Orkfians
Specifically School friends = 14 Orkfians
Work Colleagues = 2 Orkfians
Not sure = 4 Orkfians
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Q3: Do you play both Classic and AatW (Alliances at War/Infinity)?
Answers:
Yes, I play/have played both = 30 Orkfians
Just AatW = 29 Orkfians
Just Classic = 17 Orkfians

Some people also commented here that they hadn’t known they could play on both servers at once, 2 people from AatW commented they would now look into Classic also. However there were also a few comments that people had tried Classic and then gone back to AatW for various reasons.
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Q4: Have you ever been in the Orkfia Internet Relay Chat (IRC) Channels? If not, why not?
Yes = 55 Orkfians
No = 21 Orkfians

The majority of people had tried IRC at some point, it was common to see comments like “I went there once for 2 hours and no one spoke to me so I have never gone back“, some people also just hadn’t thought about going on IRC and others went on IRC only for their alliance channel but commented they had all the friends they need there so see no need to come to the main #orkfia channel.
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General Information:
The age range of Orkfians who took part in the survey went from 15 to 59, with the breakdown as follows:
Age 17 and under: 14 Orkfians
Age 18 – 21: 19 Orkfians
Age 22 – 25: 17 Orkfians
Age 26 – 34: 15 Orkfians
Age 35 – 45: 4 Orkfians
Age 45 – 59: 3 Orkfians
Age not given: 4 Orkfians

Female Orkfians: 5
Male Orkfians: 67
Those who are unsure: 4

Locations:
Canada: 2 ——– USA: 17
Trinidad: 1 ——– Asia (unspecified): 1
Japan: 1 ——– Malaysia: 2
Phillipines: 1 ——– Singapore: 3
Australia: 5 ——– Israel: 2
Portugal: 1 ——- Malta: 1
Romania: 3 ——- Bulgaria: 1
Germany: 1 —— UK: 6
Netherlands: 10 —— Sweden: 14
Unspecified: 3 —— Norway: 1

I guess all this information just showed that there is no stereotypical Orkfian… School kids from the US are there fighting against teachers from Holland, business men against mums. People sitting yards from a sweltering beach are playing alongside those freezing their arses off but among all our differences the one thing the same is we love Orkfia..whichever version it is.

I’ll continue with more surveys in the future and who knows what else we will find out.

 ~By Jamzi ~