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The Guardian asks whether Evony with it's seemingly undefeatable (we've tried) titty advertising campaign has become the most hated on the web.
Quite possibly. If you've been anywhere near the internet in recent weeks, you may well have noticed the vast number of promotions for a game called Evony – campaigns on websites featuring buxom fantasy queens; countless Google ads and (more disturbingly) millions of spam comments left on blogs.
On the surface, Evony is a pretty standard online strategy game – a simulation in which players take the role of a medieval noble who must build up an empire. But the way the game has been marketed has created a bit of a stir: the games marketer Bruce Everiss has charted the volume of spam being sent by its creators, while Jeff Atwood, a US programmer and blogger, has documented the ads' increasingly racy nature – from a simple medieval warrior promising the game would be "free forever", through a string of increasingly racy images ... until, finally, it was simply advertising itself by showing a pair of breasts.
More here. (http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/gamesblog/2009/jul/15/games-evony-spam-internet)
You block it, they change the URL. Persistent!
Evil Avatar
07-28-2009, 04:26 PM
Which reminds me that I need to block their most recent URL.
(And if you really want to burn them, click on the ad a few hundred times so they have to pay us for hosting their ad. LOL.)
Evil Avatar: Free Forever of Evony...Maybe
Dag-Sabot
07-28-2009, 04:34 PM
Meh, saggers.
It's back.
She is a monster we can not destroy.
Cleaner7
07-28-2009, 04:46 PM
I never heard about this game until a couple of weeks ago when my cousin's friend introduced it to him. Now they play it all the time.
RUSKULL
07-28-2009, 04:49 PM
Haha! I was thinking the same thing, "What is this ad for and why does it look so bad?".
Zurik
07-28-2009, 04:59 PM
I'm guessing Firefox users don't get these ads, since I've never seen them here.
Mr.Green
07-28-2009, 05:03 PM
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v651/mrgreen72/page8_blog_entry21_1.gif
Exodus
07-28-2009, 05:04 PM
lol i remember seeing this ad and it saying 'come play with me my lord...' LOL
blackzc
07-28-2009, 05:06 PM
Ive been playing for about a month and im about done with it. Its frustrating. My buddies alliance is about to break the top 100.
lockwoodx
07-28-2009, 05:21 PM
She doesn't even fit the fantasy setting. It's like they cut/pasted some model out of a target ad.
blackzc
07-28-2009, 05:30 PM
She doesn't even fit the fantasy setting. It's like they cut/pasted some model out of a target ad.
One of em looks like maria carey. i think this game is run by chinamen.
blackzc
07-28-2009, 05:32 PM
I almost forgot those teeth ads...those disgust me,
Ulysses
07-28-2009, 05:39 PM
Yay for AdBlock, I guess.
Grumsh
07-28-2009, 05:45 PM
I'm guessing Firefox users don't get these ads, since I've never seen them here.
I use Firefox, and as a matter of fact am using the new 3.5 as I type this. I have been seeing this add for at least a month straight on EvilAvatar, if not longer.
Yes it's a racey add, but I scroll past it and ignore it pretty quickly.
net7runner
07-28-2009, 06:10 PM
Gah! She's back again! Those boobs just won't stay down. It's not natural I tell you.
Bacarat
07-28-2009, 06:16 PM
LOL, as an avid reader of Jeff Atwoods blog I knew about this already. Its fucking great!
Samstag
07-28-2009, 06:57 PM
The Guardian asks whether Evony with it's seemingly undefeatable (we've tried) titty advertising campaign has become the most hated on the web.
Why does the web hate boobies? Stamp them all out and the terrorists win!
prence
07-28-2009, 07:33 PM
Never heard of it, and those tits are way too saggy.
LilBunnyFuFu
07-28-2009, 07:38 PM
Why does the web hate boobies? Stamp them all out and the terrorists win!
Because for the most part EVAV is SFW, and this ad is NOT! So, it can get people into trouble.
I've never heard of this, and I still haven't heard of this.
What's the situation here?
Samstag
07-28-2009, 08:05 PM
Because for the most part EVAV is SFW, and this ad is NOT! So, it can get people into trouble.
I'm sitting here trying to imagine the boss seeing it: "What the?!?! Viewing porn on company time?!? Oh, it's just a video game website. Well, carry on and try to have that overdue report back to me in a reasonable amount of time, would you?"
brandonjclark
07-28-2009, 08:07 PM
It's back.
She is a monster we can not destroy.
Gah! She's back again! Those boobs just won't stay down. It's not natural I tell you.
She's a level 20 undead, with infinite heal and constant respawn. Her "twin bazooka" special is a Haze spell from hell.
Won't a true knight of valiant power step forth and slay the beast?
Samstag
07-28-2009, 08:07 PM
Oops. Forgot to add that my boss says the new IMVU ads with the two girls kissing is not nearly as cool as the big boobies.
hunter
07-29-2009, 12:26 AM
She doesn't even fit the fantasy setting. It's like they cut/pasted some model out of a target ad.
That's funny, because that's how their ad campaign started.
http://kevinsung.org/?p=1976
The original fairy one is much nicer.
I get saggy or Mariah Carey. Mariah Carey mostly.
Evil Avatar
07-29-2009, 01:00 AM
Right now you shouldn't be getting any of them. We have them blocked until they change their domain name again.
Neon Wraith
07-29-2009, 01:04 AM
Have you guys seen Plants vs. Zombies new adds that are making fun of the evony ads? Rawr, thats one hot zombie mama.
Druxk
07-29-2009, 01:06 AM
I can't even think of anything witty to say. These people are OVER THE LINE!!
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KlausFlouride
07-29-2009, 02:41 AM
I see these ads everywhere I go on the net now.
LOL, as an avid reader of Jeff Atwoods blog I knew about this already. Its fucking great!
I was going to post the same thing. Here (http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001286.html)is the link if anyone is interested.
Earth Djinn
07-29-2009, 08:01 AM
Ive literally never heard of this before this thread.
saulob
07-29-2009, 08:08 AM
She doesn't even fit the fantasy setting. It's like they cut/pasted some model out of a target ad.
You say that. But this is true, they did that on a old banner.
I wrote a thread (http://www.evilavatar.com/forums/showthread.php?t=90652) about this NSFW ad, and Sarconix (http://www.evilavatar.com/forums/showpost.php?p=1771535&postcount=6) gave us an amazing link about this ad :)
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001286.html
that lead to that one:
http://blog.costumecraze.com/2009/05/dubious-civony-game-uses-costume-photo
I never tought that this ad had so many history behind.
saulob
07-29-2009, 09:48 AM
Have you guys seen Plants vs. Zombies new adds that are making fun of the evony ads? Rawr, thats one hot zombie mama.
Where?
Show us... please, any image?
pwnophobia
07-29-2009, 09:59 AM
Where?
Show us... please, any image?
http://img195.imageshack.us/img195/4034/74297053.jpg
http://imgur.com/5DjFv.jpg
BitterCupOJoe
07-29-2009, 01:43 PM
Hahahah oh man, thanks Popcap. That's the best laugh I've had today.
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