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Comment spam, lewd advertising, and stolen assets abound for Evony
Massively — ... game's unorthodox marketing strategy has been a target of the blogosphere for some time, starting back when they were still called Civony instead of their current title. During that time the company was caught by bloggers for stealing images without permission from other sites and using them for their game's marketing. Since then, the name has changed and new advertising has appeared, including an overuse of blog comment spam. Interestingly enough, the company has denounced the use of spam amongst their users of the iEvony ...

I Think We Need a Futile Gesture
The Ancient Gaming Noob — ... think that this situation absolutely requires a really futile and stupid gesture be done on somebody’s part. John “Bluto” Blutarsky, Animal House It has been pointed out that the company which makes Evony has been behaving… badly I guess would be the right term… with their game and ads and spam comments. They have even been declared an aspirant to the title “Most Hated Game on the Net” by The Guardian, Evony LLC is, I gather, somewhat ...