lol theres another new add with a woman lying down w/o even a bra on. you can see her all but the tips of her breasts. when i first saw these adds i though they were for some online sex game
I actually joined evony at one of the mid-way advertisements (had been seeing enough ads and thought âthey can post THAT many ads? Must mean a lot of people joining to fund such advertisement⌠I should take a look, it might actually be good.â
Though, the reason boob advertising works is because of society. Most of modern civilization (especially the U.S.) has so many social sex-oriented-taboos that natural and understandable instinct is strongly repressed. Remember, we arenât born with clothes. In a natural state, we would constantly see breasts, and weâd become desensitized to them, and it wouldnât be a big deal. However, with our social norms, stuff like this is repressed, and thus any boobage is like water to a thirsty man, from an instinct standpoint, because guys arenât getting what they would naturally get almost constantly. (Note: This has also lead to the weird perversion where now nudity is naturally associated with sex. Think about that, due to our society, you canât be your natural self without being a sexual object.)
Long ago, women discovered they could control men to a degree by limiting sexual stimulation, and then only providing when their will was met. Corporations have just now caught the oldest trick in the book (again). If patterns follow past patternsâŚ
Following the trend, sexual advertisement will continue to rise. Eventually, (partially thanks to articles like this one, enforcing the absurd âsexually-oriented-stuff=badâ viewpoint), indignant mothers (who are having their age-old manipulation trick manipulated) and their crew, under the guise of âmoral superiorityâ when push in their countries where laws will be passed to limit sexually-oriented content. Then, companies will stop under fear of legal action for a time, and then slowly try to push the boundaries again. All this time, you will get sexually-repressed youth acting out in anyway they can, and thus being forced about by a tide of horomones they canât control.
Alternatively, we admit that the natural tendencies of humanity are nothing to be ashamed of, advertising goes âout of controlâ, people get desensitized, eventually âboobageâ is seen everwhere but it has no effect, old laws are repealled as people find them silly, people go about their daily lives with a lot less stress, and sexually-oriented stuff slowly moves back naturally to appropriate circles as itâs advertising effect becomes effectively nill.
God I hate these campaigns. Just too blatant.
These ads are retarded, the old pictures are nothing compared to the ones up now, latest ones include a woman wearing bra and underwear just lying there and we get overhead view, and another one completely topless (using arm to cover). And iâm just here thinking wtf is with this gay company?
This is the worse possible advertisement there is, the game has kids that play so it atracts adults looking for more besides playing a browsergame.
Iâm still surprised that google didnât ban this ad.
Evony also has copyright infrigment as they use images from well known PC games in their game. Every post related to it on their boards gets instantly deleted and a ban follows.
And no I donât play , I signed up to see what is what and quit after a day.
md
i think the ads are funny, and hey it works!
i really dont see what the big fuss is over them, i always laugh because im thinking âwhat buissnes does thisâ anyhows, i started playing the game about 2months ago and have spent literally 0dollars.
it does make it harder for promotions in the game but it only take about 1-2days of farming to get the medals/etc you need.
This post made me literally laugh out loud. You are right about the dangers of the lowest common denominator though. Look how entertainment in general and politicians and et cetera pander to the lowest common denominator. This path doesnât have a pleasant destination.
Love or hate those Evony adverts, they have allowed the owners (UMGE) to prop evony up quickly - now claiming 8 million accounts. Now, not sure how many have paid for evony coins, but looking at alexa rankings - the evony site is sitting at 450 in the world at present! No mean feat.
It is good idea if you are taking the help of bold scene fo advertising your game but please re-think it is better idea to promote the game whose meaning is different as actual it show in frontâŚ
Did anyone else see this Onion article?
http://www.theonion.com/content/news/nadir_of_western_civilization_to
It is highly relevant to this discussion.
Wow. Thereâs a new one up:
http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=alome9&s=4
I really, really hate Evony.
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 Evonyâs 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
When it comes down to, itâs the final product that matters. I donât care about the way they marketed their product. Like somebody said already, they put girls next to cars all the time and people buy the cars anyway. If youâre one of those who got into this game looking for boobs then itâs your loss - you didnât do enough research on it. Youâll be surprised it is a very nicely done massive multiplayer CIV game. I joined knowing this full well, and I hardly miss the boobs. And yes I know you have to pay to get more perks - the programmers have to be paid and the servers have to be maintained with money somehowâŚ
Iâd bet this was some kind of graduate research project.
Iâve noticed these irritating ads for a long time on a different gaming website (the owners of the site kept trying to rid themselves of those ads, but the link for it kept changing). Out of curiosity I actually clicked the ad and was shocked at how crappy the game really was, and I was also shocked at how after I went to the site, my anti-virus program found a trojan. I canât really imagine how pissing off over half the people who use the internet will help these people with their business. I also canât imagine the damage it will do to the company if they successfully sue Jeff Atwood, after all it just shows that theyâre a bunch of babies that canât handle bad publicity.
Evony is pretty much an annoying presence on the internet that we have to deal with, like swine flu or those AXE commercials.
Well to those donât think that using sex in the media to sell is a problem⌠I do believe it is. Because you are turning women into sexual objects and therefore property. When are children see these ads they are getting subliminal messages telling them that this is true. That all men are stupid, horndogs (which is not true)and that women are there to serve and are for sexual desire. Itâs a form of brainwashing. So not only are the adds annoying, itâs a huge problem in our society. Itâs creating steriotypes that are bad for both men and women.
⌠You do realize that itâs not the fact that the women look sexual or their breasts are showing. Most women are just as sexual as men, though our society has turned a womenâs sexuality into a taboo. Itâs how they are shown as object⌠I really hope you all realize thatâs a huge problem. The sword pointed at her breasts⌠obvious phallic symbol. All the âplay now my lordâ it doesnât mean play the game, it means play with me sexually. Save the woman because she canât save herself, rule the woman. Come on itâs SO obvious!
Come on itâs SO obvious!
Amanda: I disagree. Iâm pretty sure that none of these advertisements are INTENDED to be sexual in any way. The fact that the sword seems a little phallic to you says more about you than the ads. These are just increasingly close-up images of a medieval woman, where the closeness indicates the urgency of building a town and having the social clout to save said medieval women. The last image (just the brazier) is the closest, a visual hyperbole of the womanâs plight. Her lack of clothing indicates her frightening vulnerability to a world without the town you would build.
These are clearly not aimed at men onlyâthe âPlay now My Lordâ ad shows the game woman enjoying the social company of one of her friends. I know, I know: youâre going to say itâs a stereotype that women are more talkative and social than men. Well, Iâll give you that. But all this talk of overt sexuality, well, itâs just unfounded and silly.
I hate these ads, theyâre everywhere. Literally. When Iâm trying to show my little cousins a nice cute bunny rabbit video on youtube, they always see part of a womens breast, who is just barely half naked, next to the video. And when I check my myspace and facebook, its there too.
World of Warcraft does a better job advertising their game because well, they have pictures related to the game/website, not pornography.
Theyâre just trying to attract ânerdsâ who spend their time gaming on WoW or runescape and masterbaiting to pornography. Not to be judgmental, stereotypical or anything, but when people act like their stereotype, thereâs no point of defending yourself.
I am playing for funâŚ
And i can tell you guys its funny to see the newcomers arrive, when you leave the beginners chat window openâŚ!
Lots of times you can see them go: Where are the boobies?
Now im wondering⌠could they be sued for false publicity?
Because in the actual game there are no boobsâŚ