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 12-07-2009, 08:47 AM | #1 |
Banned Not From Round Here  Join Date: Aug 2003 Posts: 2,630  Thanks: 484 Thanked 877 Times in 397 Posts Groans: 217 Groaned at 505 Times in 224 Posts | Evony This is looking like one big scam. They have ripped off the game and are ripping off the players. You can find details if you do an interweb search. It is run by Chinese gold garmers, so they have gone first party! They also have a tool called iEvony which allows them to harvest the details of player's friends. |
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| 13-07-2009, 08:31 AM | #2 |
Banned Not From Round Here Join Date: Aug 2003 Posts: 2,630 Thanks: 484 Thanked 877 Times in 397 Posts Groans: 217 Groaned at 505 Times in 224 Posts | "Free" MMOs like Runescape and Habbo are massive, amongst the most played games in the world. 400,000 people are employed in China and asia gold farming for MMOs! To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 10 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. So I suppose that it was inevitable that the Chinese gold farmers would go first party and get rid of the middle man. Evony (formerly Civony) is that game. It is a rip off (in many cases direct) of Civilisation as this article explains: To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 10 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. Evony say that they are "Free for life" but they have a number of strategies to milk lots of money from players: To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 10 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. and To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 10 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. To recruit victims Evony are spamming the internet like crazy, this is what brought them to my attention. They are using all the devious and underhand methods of the gold farmers. To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 10 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. They are also flooding Google Adsense with tit based advertising, even though the game is tit free! To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 10 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. So we have a game which is a massive global scam. |
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| 13-07-2009, 12:07 PM | #4 | |
Banned Not From Round Here Join Date: Aug 2003 Posts: 2,630 Thanks: 484 Thanked 877 Times in 397 Posts Groans: 217 Groaned at 505 Times in 224 Posts | Quote:
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| 13-07-2009, 12:37 PM | #5 |
Boring Old Fart One Of Us  Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Breda, Holland, where I get to teach all the bad habits I picked up to young impressionable minds. Posts: 5,740  Thanks: 1,459 Thanked 2,482 Times in 788 Posts Groans: 75 Groaned at 162 Times in 108 Posts | I repeat, due to lack of understandable response huh? __________________ “Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. We have a small problem. All four engines have stopped. We are doing our damnedest to get them under control. I trust you are not in too much distress.” To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 10 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. --- To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 10 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. ... To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 10 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. |
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| 13-07-2009, 12:54 PM | #6 |
Hardcore Gamer One Of Us  Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: North Posts: 645 Thanks: 456 Thanked 488 Times in 165 Posts Groans: 11 Groaned at 16 Times in 12 Posts | Well apparently some idiots are bothering people on the internet by pretending to offer a legitimate service while all the time all they're really interested in is promoting themselves and their web sites. __________________ gary liddon - ruffian games - To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 10 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. - To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 10 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. |
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| 13-07-2009, 12:57 PM | #7 | |
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If gold farming goes first party in China, so what? Those "legitimate" companies will still suffer their current impediments trying to operate on their existing markets, but if they now legitimately trade on the new Chinese market the likes of Blizzard will actually have a proper point of contact to sue now. __________________ Simon Tam: I've never shot anyone before. Shepard Book: I was there, son. I'm fairly sure you haven't shot anyone yet. Paddy Sinclair - MD Proper Games Ltd | |
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| 13-07-2009, 01:21 PM | #8 | |
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__________________ at the beginning of the Portal, we sat down as a group to decide what philosopher or school of philosophy our game would be based on. That was followed by about 15 minutes of silence and then someone mentioned that a lot of people like cake. | |
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| 13-07-2009, 01:31 PM | #9 | |
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Which is better than some people who creep through life being negative and disparaging about everything. | |
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| 13-07-2009, 01:47 PM | #10 |
Monkey Donkey One Of Us  Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: on the black slopes Posts: 5,623 Thanks: 3,102 Thanked 2,627 Times in 835 Posts Groans: 39 Groaned at 181 Times in 164 Posts | I just feel like someone approached me on the street and began talking details about a subject I know nothing about - critical hit by wall-of-text To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 10 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. |
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| 13-07-2009, 02:13 PM | #11 | |
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__________________ gary liddon - ruffian games - To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 10 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. - To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 10 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. | |
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| 13-07-2009, 04:15 PM | #12 |
Banned Not From Round Here Join Date: Aug 2003 Posts: 2,630 Thanks: 484 Thanked 877 Times in 397 Posts Groans: 217 Groaned at 505 Times in 224 Posts | And as for advertising I just checked Analytics for yesterday (the 12th) and out of over 4,000 unique visitors to Bruceongames the magnificent total of 2 came from The Chaos Engine. All the important people in the industry are subscribing to my RSS feed by now. |
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| 13-07-2009, 04:29 PM | #13 |
Failboat Captain One Of Us  Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Inside a box inside your mind inside somewhere else you cannot find. Posts: 2,312 Thanks: 247 Thanked 1,091 Times in 349 Posts Groans: 64 Groaned at 47 Times in 28 Posts | 2 people from here? How did that happen? We're obviously not doing a good enough job warning people about you and your drivel. Cheers for reminding us all. __________________ "Football is ubiquitous in Texas. Pro Football, college Football, High School Football, Pee-wee Football; In fact, every form of Football except the original: European Football, which most Texans believe to be a commie plot." - Sheldon Cooper. |
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| 13-07-2009, 05:08 PM | #15 | |
Banned Not From Round Here Join Date: Aug 2003 Posts: 2,630 Thanks: 484 Thanked 877 Times in 397 Posts Groans: 217 Groaned at 505 Times in 224 Posts | Quote:
My "drivel" has often been used by MCV and is regularly used by iStockanalyst and Seeking Alpha. Many other journalists have plagiarised my content. Edge (Colin Campbell) have recommented my site in their weekend reading. To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 10 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. I made Reuters: To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 10 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. Most of the top gaming sites have linked to Bruceongames stories at one stage or another. Game Politics did again today, for instance. And, most important of all, the highest possible accolade, Stuart Cambell doesn't like me. Though we have never met. And I can tell you the story of how he got a job in the industry. | |
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