… or should that be “Evony reaches the lowest point possible”?
What you see to your left is not, as you should expect, the work of this article’s author. Nor is it the work of any other website commenting on the current buzz Evony is creating with is, ahem, interesting adverts. We here at Negative Gamer would like to think we are at the cutting edge of Evony journalism, and can say with some confidence that this is in fact a real advert for the game.
Real in the sense it is an advert, in an ad-network that does go to the Evony site. Is it actually meant as a sincere attempt to gain traffic via the lure of breasts? I sure hope not. Still, it got us talking about it. Well played Evony PR. Well played.
In other news, here is an article titled Don’t play Evony in which a blogger complains he is being spammed with Evony spam-comments.
Wow now that bitch is a slag
This is basically the Negative Gamer equivalent of Watergate.
My non-gaming blog is also being bombarded by Evony spam. Based on their marketing, I’m sure the game is awesome.
On one hand these ads are so sad they are ‘almost’ funny but on the other hand they also make me want to bang my head against a wall with utter disbelief that there are some lazy minded fuck-wits out there actually getting paid to think this shit up and worse still that there are actually people out there willing to pay them (instead of punching them) for it too!
I almost got into ebony, but then I found a far superior game to make me feel like the lord over at pornhub.com
In other news, i’ve been listening to the podcast for months now and I have decided to actualy get involved in this fine community of yours.
See also here: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001286.html
You might want to put it in the post itself, a nice rundown of where the adverts went (and seeing one in context). Urg…very low.
Why am I suddenly thirsty for milk?
if you play it you would enyoy it as its a realy good game if you get into it
I’m sure people really enjoy heroin and domestic violence too. Doesn’t make me want to try ‘em.
Here’s our take on their spam abuse and their new drastic action against their members (after we complained that day) : http://www.mmogrindhouse.com/game-news/bizarre/do-you-have-what-it-takes-to-be-the-next-spam-queen/
Those are getting ridiculous. I wonder when they’ll cut the money train and measure traffic. Perpetual hype machine – eventually runs out of money. $money_in < $money_out
I am a student studying computer games design at uni and decided to investigate Evony.com.
Just to see what some of these games are like etc. etc.
The game is actually kind of cool (found myself addicted and even spent a little money on it).
But I started to notice HUGE bandwidth use by the site as I played.
I am not the only one either, there are comments on the evony forums about this.
This is odd because all of the client info, the animations etc. are all downloaded in one big download at the start.
There is no streaming media so I began to wonder what was going on.
To cut a long story short I decided to break the law and reverse engineer Evony’s client.
Not to cheat. Not to rip them off or even to use even a scrap of the code.
But just to poke about a bit and find out what was going on, maybe even offer them some ways to improve things.
Aside from the fact that the whole thing is very poorly constructed (it is really very beginner coder level stuff. Reminds me of a lot of
what the first year students produce for assignments) it contained some very interesting information.
Included with the client are 2 peices of tracking software that monitor your web use and which applications you have open while the client is running.
These do not install independently on the machine though due to the limitations of flash and do not actually damage anything.
But they harvest massive volumes of information. My firewall was blocking a lot of outgoing transmissions and it turns out that these
were the data trying to be sent out. So they know nothing about me. lol.
However there is a LOT of data coming IN over the ports the client uses. In otherwords it is downloading something into my cache for use later.
I have bandiwdth restriction which slows these types of tricks down and I completely clear my cache every couple of hours if I am heavily using the net.
I also noticed that all the varanbles etc. are named Civony still and that there are multiple references to UMGE.
Even a couple of folders are simply called UMGE, one of these folders contains one of the spyware programs.
So I can only guess at where the data would end up if I didnt have a good firewall.
There are also commented out sections in the code which contain references to UMGE and Lam himself, though low on details.
Thank you for reading this.
Lee