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Evony – One To Avoid
Stropp's World — ... (via Scott Jennings) is that the company behind the game is umge.com. A World of Warcraft gold seller based in Guangzhou, China and also associated with WoWMine. ...

Daily Bog Roll 7/11 – Two Ply Edition
The Ancient Gaming Noob — ... some nun said space is boring. (To be fair,  I am pretty sure that is church doctrine.)  But Mynxee at Life in Low Sec doesn’t find it boring, though she did find it a bit exasperating being lost in wormhole space. Meanwhile, Evony (a contraction of “Ever Annoying”) the self-proclaimed “World’s Best Web Game” fresh from its stunningly successful web ad campaign has begun spamming the comment threads of all the cool blogs just to make sure everybody knows they’re still alive and ...

Condensed Evony Hatred
Kill Ten Rats — No snark handy, let’ go straight to the links of hatred: Lum, Mu, Tweety, Arkenor, Tipa, Ken, and Bruce (with more condensed hatred links in his comments). I tried it, and it remains a Travian clone with RMT annoyances. I won, by any list of goals I might have had, so you’re welcome to my stuff if there is a way to give it away. : Zubon

Comment spam, lewd advertising, and stolen assets abound for Evony
Massively — ... lingerie and women. The 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 ...