Evony steals true advertisements, spams and more! High five!

If you're not familiar with the latest cancer that is surging through the internet, I would be surprised. I can't go three minutes without seeing another advertisement for a brower game named Evony. Previously called Civony, the name was changed for reasons unknown (to me, at least). Evony is owned by a Chinese company called UMGE, which specializes in selling gold to people who play World of Warcraft. I suppose this means they specialize in hacking and stripping WoW accounts, employing key loggers and other types of malware to achieve their goal. Then again, I'm just guessing on that one.

Anyhow, their advertisements have progressed from a picture of a knight in armor with the tag "Play for free!" to a picture of a woman in a fairy costume they stole from a costume site, to now something equally hilarious. They have stooped to stealing advertisement material from another internet sleaze machine: the True online dating service.



Hilarious, to be sure, but it just shows how low that UMGE will go to attract customers to its game without having to spend a lot of time coming up with advertising. If you're going to just steal pictures from a costume website and plagiarize a dating service's advertisements, why not just spam people too?

UMGE claims that the people who are doing the spamming are part of a program they have created that will reward their players with credits for referrals, but it seems very unlikely me to me that the average player would go that far for credits for what is almost assuredly an incredibly mediocre Civilization clone.