Evony & Irony

samsonguy920

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The Big Eye said:
Seeing large-breasted women evocatively exposed in online adverts causes me to react the same way as I would if a homeless man started throwing mashed potatoes at me.
I am not hungry. If I were, I would go to a restaurant, or cook something up myself.
Err - if you, y'know, get my meaning.
At least you would hope those were mashed potatoes....
I myself, being a dirty old man, don't mind so much seeing gratuitous cleavage ads, but when the link takes you to something better played on my Office Excel 07, then that just gets downright rude. Reminds me of the Cracker Jacks that get put out these days, labeled as having peanuts and caramel popcorn. Instead I get a peanut(must be the surprise in the box) and popcorn with old maids.
 

008Zulu_v1legacy

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A few of the girls I have seen in those ads are actually trademarked and copyrighted images that belong to other people, I wonder how much they pay in liscensing fees (if they pay them at all)

My guess is that the people who play Evony are the same ones who pay $1500 for a lvl 80 fully tiered WoW account then brag how good they are.
 

minidevil921

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This is just stupid you see this add you download it you play it and then what i just don't get it?!
 

Fearzone

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Eh. Marketing is marketing. I can overlook it if the game is good. More worrisome to me is sex in the game because that means the game makers themselves have so little confidence in the gameplay they would resort to that. While sex and hype in marketing may raise red flags for me, if the game passes muster I'm happy to let that fault slide.

Besides that level of discrepancy between ads and games were commonplace in 8-bit days. It almost brings fond memories.
 

Hirvox

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Considering that Evony is being marketed using have been sued for click fraud before [http://www.bruceongames.com/2009/11/19/kingory-nap-war-evony-empire-craft-lords-online-what-is-going-on/], it's not that difficult to put two and two together. Getting people to visit the site is enough, but if they stay and pay to ask random people on the Internet to show their tits, that's simply a bonus.
 

Formica Archonis

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Fearzone said:
the game makers themselves have so little confidence in the gameplay they would resort to that
They have as much confidence in the gameplay as a three card monte dealer has in maintaining his reputation for running a fair game. Look around online and you'll find a ton of complaints about Civony/Evony. Amongst the accusations are things like:

making everything (text messages, renaming things, upgrading units, etc.) cost money and then hiding the cost behind a dodgy ingame/real world dollar exchange rate;

absolutely no reimbursement if a server crash causes you to lose progress (including all those things you bought);

comment spam on blogs;

this whole thing - http://www.bruceongames.com/2009/09/14/evony-libel-me/ ;

art theft from Age of Empires;

being linked to MMO gold farming;

etc. etc. etc.

Now, I don't play the game myself, so I can't discuss these in depth. I merely mention what others have publicly said (makes cross sign at lawyers). But I have heard very little good about this game.
 

Gruchul

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Yeah, I agree, using sex to market a game that completely lacks sex is stupid.
What's next? Is Pokemon gonna be marketed with a nude Pikachu and Togepi-on-Togepi action?
Pikachus are generally naked and I believe pokemon breeding was part of the marketing for one of the games. Togepis are baby pokemon however, so can't breed. Don't rule out a 'skitty on wailord action' campaign though...
 

MGlBlaze

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I'm wondering why I've never heard of this company before, but I'm glad I do now. Although maybe I have seen some Evony adds somewhere but ignored it because I'm in that rare 1-percentile young male that is ACTIVELY TURNED OFF by such gratuitous adds. If it's done well and features things in a mature light in the game, fine, but trying to cleavage and cheap thrills is the one perfect way to make me ignore them to death.

In fact I'd go so far as to say that my hatred even extends to the people who actually fall for this shit and click the adds expecting things to be full of that, which in itself says a lot of bad things about the male gaming demographic.

This is yet another reason why you should never trust adds and just do your own research on games. Although the fact that they have enough of a user-base to keep going even after EA of all people lost that many people is embarrassing.

Although, at the same time, this problem (as I have hinted at just a moment ago) is of our own creation. Someone used the cheap thrill factor to market a game, it worked, everyone else started doing it, it kept working... you get the idea. It's mostly out own fault that things have gotten this way, and it is also our own fault why women may be turned off to gaming save for the small ratio that are hardcore gamers that actually can stomach all the sleazy marketing present.

This is yet another reason I hold noting but contempt for the general human race. Easily-swayed idiots...

The people who use this to their advantage are even worse, arguably.
 

FROGGEman2

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And yet, a community it has.

Nice article, but seriously lacking in irony and c'mon, that pun-cum-web-article-title has been done to death.
 

cainx10a

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I take pride in the fact that I have yet to click on one of those Evony ads. Oh and, FREE FOREVER.
 

benbenthegamerman

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dududf said:
Shamus Young said:
They've never tried to go after the casual market. Or women. Or teens
Shamus, I do believe that is EXACTLY what they are doing. :p
Well, i see what your trying to say, but the ratio of teens who watch porn to men between the ages of 20 and 35 who watch porn is probably more in favor of the men and not the teens. However, this is a good point. Onemorelevel.com has a lot of flash-based games for teens ages 11-18, and i do tend to see a ton of Envoy adverts. Not that that is good or anything, im just trying to help prove your point.
 

TJM8

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At this point in time the internet supplies enough sites to preview/review/rate games that if a gamer gets into a game purely on the box art or aid its their fault. No one that plays video games are so busy that they can't do a quick google search for a game before they get involved. When I saw the ad I thought it was for a deviant game, figuring it was full of the usual "creeper" base and tied to viruses I just ignored it. If its working for them, that there are people out there clicking on the link, seeing that its not what they expected and still playing then kudos... to someone hah.
 

dududf

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benbenthegamerman said:
dududf said:
Shamus Young said:
They've never tried to go after the casual market. Or women. Or teens
Shamus, I do believe that is EXACTLY what they are doing. :p
Well, i see what your trying to say, but the ratio of teens who watch porn to men between the ages of 20 and 35 who watch porn is probably more in favor of the men and not the teens. However, this is a good point. Onemorelevel.com has a lot of flash-based games for teens ages 11-18, and i do tend to see a ton of Envoy adverts. Not that that is good or anything, im just trying to help prove your point.
FINALLY!

I thought no one was gonna catch onto my joke/truth.

Hormones yee be in the brain, we see ttis, Hormones go crazy, we click. Maybe 1/10 actually stay, and then maybe 1/5 of the 1/10 actually pay for it.
 

Lord_Ascendant

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Evony, its as accursed as The Dark Lord of Gaming He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named (feel free to guess who it is) also the title of this article made me starting thinking of that Elton John "Ebony & Ivory" song. Waugh!
 

zamble

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Someone can make that stop right now, it's just a matter or making a lawsuit agaisn the company for not delivering the naughty pron they're advertising, I'm sure any judge will see this is a decent plead... oh wait!...
 

Obrien Xp

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This game used to be called civony and had a civilization like logo, its changed now ofc.

The other thing that really ticks me off, is that from the screenshots its looks like all their images (in-game) are directly ripped off from Age of Empires 2. (unless they've all changed by now).

My friend played it for like a month and from what he told me I figured its just like travian or some other game that I personally don't care for (If I want good strategy in the medieval setting its Medieval 2 Total War).