*DISCLAIMER* Below is an email from Evony, reprinted with permission from the author, addressing the recent Evony headlines about the game. This is not from the Atlanta MMORPG Examiner, but from someone who works directly with Evony.
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Dear Evony Supporter,
As you may have heard, Evony has recently been the victim of malicious and libelous attacks by a UK blogger by the name of Bruce Everiss.
Through your previous online outreach efforts in support of Evony, we know you share our commitment to the unique experience we have developed for our fans and we wanted to reach out to you directly with an update on the latest developments regarding these libelous allegations.
Despite the numerous fraudulent statements made by Mr. Everiss to date, we have tried for several weeks to avoid taking our grievances into the legal courts, hoping instead to persuade Everiss to come clean and stop his online campaign of untruths and outright falsities. Unfortunately, he has ignored our requests.
As fans of Evony, you know better than most, that these attacks have caused significant damage to our brand and the gaming experience for Evony’s millions of users and fans around the world.
Unfortunately, we have been unable to reach a solution with Mr. Everiss and in the coming days our legal team will be proceeding on multiple fronts against the libelous assaults that been have leveled against our company and our game.
As fans of the game and industry insiders, we wanted to reach out to you in advance to address several of the clear violations of international libel standards perpetrated by Everiss and his supporters. Several of the most egregious violations are also the most clearly dismissible and we hope that with your help we will be able to finally clear the air. The facts are clear:
1. Evony, LLC has had at no time any association with a company called WoWMine. In addition, the company is not owned nor has it ever been owned or managed by an individual by the name of Eric Lam. To be clear, Evony has absolutely no legal or financial connection to this individual.
2. Further, despite the blatantly false claims of Mr. Everiss, none of the owners, directors or employees of Evony has ever been, or are currently parties to, any legal action by Microsoft Corp.
3. Evony and our developers have in no way ever infringed upon the intellectual property of any other game or developer. There have never been proceedings against our company for any such violations of intellectual property and this accusation is entirely fabricated by Mr. Everiss.
4. Evony has never distributed any form of malware to our users. Any such action would directly impact the user experience of our millions of fans and damage the credibility of both our corporate reputation and diminish the fan base of Evony. Evony’s popularity speaks for itself – more than five million users in dozens of countries around the world have helped to grow the game in popularity without any need for malicious software.
5. Evony is in no way a Chinese based company. Evony is a registered corporation in the United States with millions of active players in dozens of countries around the globe.
It is our hope that Mr. Everiss will now understand the error of his ways and correct the public record for his readers.
As a blogger yourself, we know you understand that in the digital age in which we now live, online journalists and bloggers must strive for a higher standard of integrity and accuracy. Mr. Everiss’ complete disregard for even the most basic tenants of journalistic integrity and responsibility have left our company no alternative but to take these legal actions.
Please do not hesitate to let us know if we can provide you or your readers any additional information as to the facts about this case and our efforts to hold Mr. Everiss accountable for his illegal actions. On behalf of the entire Evony team, thank you for your continued support.
Kind Regards,
Valerie
Comments
With all due respect how are we supposed to believe that Evony has "in no way ever infringed upon the intellectual property of any other game or developer" When there are side by side comparisons showing that buildings and texture skins from Age of Empires are absolutely exact in every regard except being scaled to a different size? Until you show that you legally licensed those designs from the Age of Empires developers then there is no way I can believe you.
Jeffrey: Oh, but they haven't been *sued* yet, so they're not in violation. Duh.
This Evony drama just keeps getting better and better.
Evony's own Wiki says:
"Evony is owned by UMGE (Universal Multiplayer Game Entertainment). Founded by a small group of avid Chinese game developers, UMGE is based in Guangzhou, China and develops online multiplayer games."
So now they are proven liars.
So two of her 5 points have now been disproven. She isn't doing very well here, is she?
basically everything in the document copied above which i think is from evony.net the site where evony do their employment recruiting from is lies as far as i can tell withought having investigated the matter fully myself, but as it would appear from bruce's website alot of wat bruce is saying and has said is clearly backed up by evidence and facts, if you look its not just bruce that has blogged about evony's fraudulent ways, there are a number of blog sites which have delved into this matter independently from bruce and found the same things, at the moment alot of information that bruce can use to defend himself in court has/is being removed by evony eg: they changed their game code to get rid of any ties to UMGE and eric lam as a number of people reverse engineered the browser and found ties to both umge and eric lam setting up new companies in different countrys so as to make it look like they have nothing to do with the whole "goldfarming"
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