What I see as a beautiful piece of irony is that the Evony ads are not allowed to be posted on their forums, under grounds of being inappropriate, as proven by this post - http://bbs.evony.com/showpost.php?p=259522&postcount=218
Ah, the joys of hypocrisy.
Is Evony putting trojan malware onto your computer?: http://www.bruceongames.com/2009/07/16/is-evony-malware/
Thanks Jeff for this post. I have been noticing these ads all over and thinking how ridiculous they are.
âPlay Discreetlyâ took the cake. Hadnât seen the last version yet.
Iâm pretty impressed that a lot of people are missing the biggest problem here.
These ads are disgusting not just because they are misleading. These ads are disgusting because they objectify women. If you really donât see the problems with objectification and how this is sexist, please take a moment to go educate yourself about it.
As a female gamer I can say bullshit like this is the biggest reason more women donât game. That aside, Iâm disappointed that an article like this doesnât even mention the sexism. At first I thought it was because it was so obviousâbut based on the comments I guess not.
last time i saw one was with that women whos looking up and her cleavage was showing and i was like âWOAH SHIT THOSE ARE SAGGY 0.oâ because they looked huge.
I agree with Rhea. I am a female gamer who happens to play Evony (but thank god I havenât spent any money on it).
Let me tell you that all of us on the forums are very unhappy about the ads but all weâve been told is:
http://bbs.evony.com/showpost.php?p=259522&postcount=218
and
http://bbs.evony.com/showpost.php?p=259523&postcount=219
And when the sexism what brought up these fake ads were made by a player:
http://bbs.evony.com/picture.php?albumid=359&pictureid=2346
http://bbs.evony.com/picture.php?albumid=359&pictureid=2276
Who was then warned for posting such images as they are not family friendly and may be mistaken as official Evony ads- and this was before the boobie ads.
Evony is time-bomb of player unrest. Either they will change or they will die as their players get enough and leave.
âThese ads are disgusting not just because they are misleading. These ads are disgusting because they objectify women.â YES! How dare they do that thing with the objectifying I demand to know the hopes and dreams a pair of breasts have, you canât just enjoy looking.
"As a female gamer I can say bullshit like this is the biggest reason more women donât game."
I agree! Just like this same bullshit that is on TV keeps women from watching!
I imagine males must make up about 90%+ of the North American market for browser based games - Andrew
Andrew, I know exactly what you mean. I imagine that unicorns are real.
Okay I have been imagining for a while now and there are still no unicorns. This game sucks. Your game sucks, Andrew. We are no longer XBox Live friends. I want you to send me back that girl avatar I made you that got you all those guy gamer friends online.
And the friendship bracelet I made you. Donât think I have forgotten about it.
They need more free game ,Games that show fight foe one thing
Jeff, Did you make that post intending to generating a sudden surge in reader comments⌠I hope you didnât⌠but doesnât that prove it, sadly sex or adulterated content -just- sells. and sadly makes this one the recent hottest post of yours.
It is the importance such content is given that encourages them more⌠its like buying birds in cages to save birds from being caught and being sold.
Imagine with all that so-called progressiveness in their Ads, Evony could finally interest jeff to write a post on it and generate free-clickthroughs for them.
Up until the next to last ad, I might potentially have clicked the ads and played the game. Though it got progressively more âsexyâ (And I use the word loosely), it still seemed like a medieval game.
The last one however, I canât fathom. It looks like a porn ad more than anything. In my opinion, it does them more harm than good by far. People who would be likely to actually play the game and pay for what isnât free would be turned off by the ad which looks like nothing like a browser game and the horny 40-years old virgins would just stand asking âWhere the hell are the titties?!!â
Evony is nowhere near the bottom.
hahah after mentioning this blog posting to a friend yesterday, he read an online article in the Guardian (UK newspaper) deriding Evonyâs advertising campaign and mentioning this very article!
Jeff, your musings have gone mainstream 
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/gamesblog/2009/jul/15/games-evony-spam-internet
This Evony advertising thing is pissing me off, too. Every time I visit sites like wowwiki (which I do quite often), my mom is like âOMG pr0n sites!â ⌠sigh
Absolutely hilarious. Wonât be seeing these ads on our forums any time soon
Hereâs an upcoming EmpireCraft, friends of friends of Evony, the empire strikes back with more ads & comment spams soon - http://www.mmogrindhouse.com/game-news/bizarre/the-war-craft-strikes-back-save-us-from-spam-my-lord/
Jeff Atwood. Master of incorporating references to Idiocracy into his blog posts.
Are they advertising game or porn? I donât know!
I would loooooooove to play those tits, errr, i mean games, or game, ratherâŚ
ooops, I got distracted, what were they selling again? I ainât buying.