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A recent ad for Evony.
You've probably seen the ads for Evony. They've been evolving, from showing busty women to... just showing busts.
As you can imagine, any game that uses tactics like this can't be too legitimate. Either that or they're conducting an experiment on just how many people would click on an image like this.
Too many, apparently. The player base of Evony is starting to grow, along with some unusual problems. Bruce Everiss of BruceOnGames has posted an article exposing Evony and its maker for what it really is - a scam, a virus, a thief, and a generally all around bad thing.
You should read the article, but I'll do my best to recap the main points here.
First of all, the maker of Evony Online, Eric Lam, is a Chinese businessman who is associated with a gold farming business. He's been sued by Microsoft in the past. He earns an insane amount of money from just this. Now he's created this Evony MMO, where you have to pay to get practically everything. And this is just the beginning of the shadiness.
Too many, apparently. The player base of Evony is starting to grow, along with some unusual problems. Bruce Everiss of BruceOnGames has posted an article exposing Evony and its maker for what it really is - a scam, a virus, a thief, and a generally all around bad thing.
You should read the article, but I'll do my best to recap the main points here.
First of all, the maker of Evony Online, Eric Lam, is a Chinese businessman who is associated with a gold farming business. He's been sued by Microsoft in the past. He earns an insane amount of money from just this. Now he's created this Evony MMO, where you have to pay to get practically everything. And this is just the beginning of the shadiness.
Items you get in game, even ones you get with real money, tend to disappear with no option of a refund. The game itself blatantly steals graphics from Age of Empires, and play style from Civilization. The ads are taken from various lingerie magazines. iEvony, a program you can download to your computer (as opposed to the browser based game) is thought to be a trojan used to extract email addresses, which they then will proceed to spam from countless email addresses.
The game seemed fishy from the beginning.. this is not much of a surprise. In case you needed a more clear reason to stay away from Evony... here it is.
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