A History of Evony Ads – The insanity continues [Updated-Again]
	Gavin Mannion   August 13th, 2009    8:00 am

If you have browsed a gaming site on the Internet over the past few months then I can guarantee you have come across the ads for the free online game Evony at some point.

While these ads started quite normally with a request to come and play a free online strategy game we have seen these requests degenerate into something pretty extraordinary since then.

The latest ad is seriously pushing boundaries of what is acceptable to publish on Google and really it’s just starting to get a little bit embarrassing for the company.

Take a click through to see all the Evony ads I was able to dig up and watch them degenerate into a blatant plea for clicks.

[Update] This story continues to receive a large amount of interest so I will continue to try and keep it updated, feel free to leave links to any new adverts in the comment section

Take 1

Take 2

Take 2.5 (Thanks fizix)

Take 3

Take 4

Take 5

Take 6

Take 7

Take 8

Take 9

Update – Take 10 (it got better… worse)

Update – Take 11

Take 12

Take 13 – 2 for 1?

Take 14 – Older ones to try and make this list complete

Take 15 – Pretty in Pink

Take 16 – A new blonde and a golden oldie

Take 17 (Thanks P33Z)

Take 18 (Thanks to Miss Coconut)

Take 19 (Inspired by Avatar)

Take 20 (Obviously not enough flesh in the last one, thanks: SSFF6B)

Take 21 (Obviously that promise about moving away from naked women has failed)

It’s classier but I think we are all looking at the same thing here, thanks to P33Z for the tip

Posted in General News, PC Gaming

203 Comments

203 Comments

November 1, 2009 10:16 pm	LazySAGamer
	Thanks I have added it into the listing…

November 2, 2009 2:51 am	guest
	does anybody know who the two girls on the latest ad are?

November 2, 2009 3:08 am	Evony ads rule
	me wanna know too

November 2, 2009 8:57 pm	Todd
	here’s another one http://imgur.com/V5neH.png

November 2, 2009 11:16 pm	Anonymous
	This is actually a gif, but i’ll post just this one frame, anyways, I’m confused o.o http://i37.tinypic.com/64jw9d.jpg

November 3, 2009 5:30 pm	Lee
	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 Evony’s 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

November 3, 2009 11:14 pm	Poliuy
	two words: thank you

November 4, 2009 1:13 am	random
	DUDE I REALLY WANNA FIND OUT WHAT THE 2 CHICKS NAMES ON TAKE13 ARE!!!

November 4, 2009 6:08 pm	Anonymous

November 5, 2009 9:27 am	stejosaurus
	Jeeze, glad to have people like you. I also played Evony when It first came out as Civony, and it was addictive, a nice replacement to travian, which went down after i was a long term member. I started getting the original Frame 1 and 2 ads on my own personal site, and at first didn’t see anything wrong, but once the prerogative ads started coming out I had to have a nice lengthy chat with the admins of webs.com to make sure that the ads were removed from my page. It’s not appropriate to for the younger members of my site to have to see such things. They mainly come from the game Mydinos.com, and go from seeing cartoon dinosaurs, to half naked, and even topless women on my page not only sets a bad reputation for me, but for the users of mydinos. Simply put, it gets to a level of disgust when games push the issue in a desperate cry for attention.. it’s like a 14 year old girl, who either cries and cuts herself, or goes around with the football team around her arms. Evony is officially the corner girl of the internet world. Shame sex appeal had to be used on a game that has literally no reference at all.

November 6, 2009 8:41 pm	Chris Moors
	i wanna know what all of their names are

November 6, 2009 8:52 pm	morphodor
	Find The pattern

November 7, 2009 1:09 am	Vedith
	I am so tired of these freaking ads! It’s trash. Can’t they think of some better and less degrading way to sell their crappy game? I’m so tired of seeing women treated as sexual objects. It makes me fucking sick.

November 7, 2009 8:36 am	sercet message
	A sercet message is encoded

November 7, 2009 8:50 pm	Frankie
	Newest.

November 8, 2009 10:37 am	Heineko Kaze
	So… Evony… Desperate much?

November 8, 2009 11:13 am	Fail
	When I clicked on anonymous’s link I got the very same ad as he posted >.>

November 13, 2009 12:55 am	Jeebus Crepes!
	Oh get over it you prude, the women signed up for the pictures AND the ads. One of the models even links to the pictures from her own site stating HERSELF that they were ads for EVONY. Get off your prudish high horse and get a dick will you? Just like saying “porn degrades women” WTFever… These women sign up for it, and if that is not good reason enough then you simply fail at empowering females because you would be claiming they are too weak minded to make their own decisions, so go crawl under the rock you came from ugly.

November 13, 2009 1:15 am	LazySAGamer
	Got a link to the ladies website to check this out?

November 14, 2009 2:06 am	Zachary Nicoll
	Has anyone ever used tineye.com? Here are the links to the original photos I could find. Including those two blondes for you guys. - http://www.istockphoto.com/stock-photo-5923836-lingerie-model.php - http://www.habitamos.com/post/1911881/ven_a_disfrutar_de_la_mejor_maestra_del_sexo - http://www.flickr.com/photos/53732563@N00/3975587709/ - http://www.istockphoto.com/stock-photo-3317824-two-hot-blonds-in-the-tropics.php You’re welcome.

November 14, 2009 2:13 am	seriously
	seriously. evony doesn’t even HAVE anything CLOSE to these naked girls. it was only good in the first week, too. now it’s a grind. worse than runescape far worse than maplestory

November 14, 2009 2:21 am	dylan
	i think this stuff is bull crap it makes my game lag it is bull crap the games no good ether

November 15, 2009 1:58 am	zorkon
	Wow… I’ve seen all of these ads around… over a thousand times. I play a flash game, it’s there. I check my email, it’s on the sidebar. I chat with my friends, it pops up. I read an article on miley cyrus… (don’t judge!) it’s there. The worst (or best) part is, even when you do moderate safe search for google and others, they still show up because it’s not technically porn. I don’t know if i love it, or hate it… EH!!!

November 15, 2009 5:55 am	Abby
	This seriously makes me not want to play it anymore. And it’s embarrassing when I try to log on to Evony and my mom or little sister is here and they get to see some slut’s boobs. It’s disgusting.

November 15, 2009 5:57 am	wil i am
	omg i saw 1advert i dont remember when but it said like naughty fun or some shit! can u belive it! its nothing like that!!

November 17, 2009 6:44 am	Ken Ober

November 17, 2009 3:27 pm	Snider
	first time i have seen a picture of this evony with the girls i thought it was a porno site! just embarassing how they changed there pictures, But.. i have to say that the chicks are looking good.

November 18, 2009 1:01 am	Hummy
	I’m been seeing this and wondering what the hell?

November 18, 2009 4:03 am	LazySAGamer
	Yeah we found out…. check here http://www.lazygamer.co.za/general-news/evony-ads-getting-desperate-using-same-girls-as-old-porn-movies/

November 18, 2009 4:04 am	LazySAGamer
	http://www.lazygamer.co.za/general-news/evony-ads-getting-desperate-using-same-girls-as-old-porn-movies/

November 18, 2009 5:05 am	LightingWiiZord(Evony/Civony player)
	I play Evony/Civony and it is really addictive but when someone I know was disgusted by me playing Evony/Civony I really wondered why but I started looking around today and I see why: Hot girls from porn sites. I’ve got to admit they are hot and pretty, it was terrible for such a awesome game to do such terrible things like this. Also I heard from certain contacts (would be sued if named) told me that they are about to raise a contract with the website: “http://www.naughtyallie.com” . (Hot girls who would never thought to be advertising for amtuer strategy games.)

November 18, 2009 9:41 am	nick
	i have always seen these adds if i want to see naked chicks ill just go on the internet , i always knew this game was dodgey , they should be taken down somehow since game is spyware im pretty sure its illegal some iphone apps were harvesting phone numbers and there in deep shit.

November 19, 2009 5:45 am	fedmich
	Good job compiling it :) but I think there are at least 2 more ads missing from the list. Here’s one more http://www.evonygamers.com/images/Evony19.jpg and the other one is I remember the girl on Take 14,16 has done another pose. if I found it, I’ll post it here

November 20, 2009 4:44 pm	Friday Links: Fat-Core Edition
	[...] The history of Evony advertisements. This game is shameless, and although the official ads don’t work, the Magnum P.I. ad on this page at least gets my interest. Hot. [...]

November 20, 2009 7:26 pm	James
	Hey Evonny is one of many korean games that companies have set up so lazy americans will play but then get pissed cuz they aint high level and buy everything from the ingame store

November 20, 2009 9:27 pm	alex
	doed anyone know the name of the latest evony ad girl in white tank top? pls say it here if u know ^^

November 21, 2009 7:10 pm	me
	I HATE THE EVONY ADS! I do not stand alone in the protest of these racy advertisements. It is unacceptable to post these half naked women, touching themselves, in nothing but a bra. I know that you didn’t make these ads, but I request that you stop supporting the Evony company. Their marketing tactics are violating my rights as a woman! They make me feel like I am an object. They exploit women’s bodies as nothing but a ploy! You are decorating your site with porno adverts. These women are touching themselves, and this has NOTHING to do with the game. Evony doesn’t feature any princesses, damsels to be saved, or ‘discrete’ sexual entertainment. Until you refuse to approve of this corrupt, degrading, objectifying, sexist advertisements I will stop visiting your website.

June 8, 2010 12:55 am	moo
	uh he wasent supporting it he was saying it’s wrong and how this is all the bad pictures

July 16, 2010 3:58 pm	Anonymous
	The pictures on this site are the same as the ones elsewhere on the internet, and are just as bad.

November 22, 2009 8:11 am	Really Cool Kid
	No one gives a shit, above poster.

November 23, 2009 1:08 pm	coolest
	No one gives a shit we like sexy woman and its not like u’re doing the ad so fark off.

November 23, 2009 1:09 pm	coolest
	We love sexy woman and “me” its not like u’re doing the fking ad so stfu. Those who want to do the ad its their prob and let them be

November 24, 2009 3:58 am	guest
	The two girls in the ad are Sarah Scotford and Amy Lynn Grover.

November 24, 2009 1:16 pm	koopeh
	so do we get to see big titties?

November 26, 2009 7:35 am	Sarah
	Instead of crying over web adverts, you could get off your computer and try to make a ‘real’ change.

July 16, 2010 4:09 pm	Anonymous
	I know how to block Evony ads (and other ads) from your browser. 1. Get OpenDNS at http://www.opendns.com/ It’s free. 2. Get Google Chrome at http://www.google.com/chrome It’s also free. 3. In Chrome, right-click next to an Evony ad and click “Inspect Element.” 4. Expand the tag containing the ad (You will know it has the ad because it will turn blue when your mouse is over it). Keep expanding the tags until you find an <embed> or <iframe> tag 5. Copy the “src” for the tag and block it with OpenDNS

November 26, 2009 8:05 am	LazySAGamer
	I actually missed this comment before. Honestly I see nothing wrong with women being models and making a good living from doing adverts like this. I do not pretend to judge them or dictate my morals upon them. They also cannot violate your rights as a woman, you are not being forced to model wearing nothing but bra’s. You are also not a regular visitor so your threat to never return is baseless… but seeing as your email is also false I just ranted to myself.. See who’s the fool now And now we can get back to our regular programming

December 12, 2009 5:29 am	evony hater
	^ that would be good and bad. I mean if we finally see the ads for naked girls that would be cool, but heck i cant imagine my self just browsing the net with those ads around and my mum, sis or father see me!!! that would suck

December 13, 2009 10:54 pm	Evony player.
	I read somthing else like this before about some guy gathering information up about evony to sue them. The ads have been pupblished without the girls being notifed about it. They stole it our the web or somthing like that.

December 13, 2009 10:55 pm	Evony player.
	I read about some guy gathering information about evony to take them to cout. Evony ads (One with girls in) Should be aloud there done without the girls permission to use them, They stole them off the internet some how.

December 16, 2009 2:06 am	Charred Bacon
	You know i was never interested in this game because I was playing LOTRO at the time. But I thought this was a porno game for the longest time because i never seen the original background.

December 19, 2009 12:56 pm	Itsme
	More Tits :) new banner: http://bit.ly/cXpVGl leads to: http://www.evony.com/evonygc2.html

December 20, 2009 10:57 am	p33Z
	Another one: http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/7900/evonyad.jpg leads to: http://www.evony.com/evonyb1t.html?vcgeo

December 25, 2009 6:12 pm	cooldude
	anyone know the name of the model in the white tank top? (currently the latest ad) ^^

December 29, 2009 12:53 am	miss coconut
	Found today; compiled into a bad .GIF animation by me,–the ad is a smooth flash animation: http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2634/4223688656_7b8aaa32af_o.gif

December 29, 2009 6:53 pm	aax
	who is “12 girl”?

December 31, 2009 4:52 am	cambot
	I wanna have $e\/ wit all after take 5 /\

December 31, 2009 4:52 am	cambot
	x* srry

January 7, 2010 3:48 am	Spooky
	Guess what i now find a Evony advertisment at the bottom of the page advertising in a new way

January 7, 2010 3:57 am	LazySAGamer
	How are they advertising now?

January 12, 2010 4:04 am	Evony Advertisement « OSG: Best Place for Online Strategy Games
	[...] is even more infamous than the game itself. A while back Lazygamer put together a “History of Evony Ads” post that is worth a read. He also has one on the Plants vs Zombies mock-ad, which is quite [...]

February 1, 2010 8:25 am	SALLADIN
	I played this game for over 4 months closer to 5 months in total, I reached it’s peaks that it allows one to reach without wasting real cash on it, and I recently quit it… my opinion and impression is that it’s a very addictive game, it makes you want to reach the targets of becoming strong which can take around 2 or 3 months depending on the time you spend playing it only in the end when you do become strong to get very boring and mechanical and everyone who has a clear head realizes that it’s a complete waste of time therefore they quit! The game itself advertises that they have over 15 Million registered users scattered in over 130 servers (each server they boast has over 100 000 players) but the truth is that they dont have more than 300 000 from all over the world who play it actively and they are scattered throughout those 130 servers. the good points of the game in my opinion is meeting people making new friends but beyond that it’s a failiure in both graphics as well as the game (you basically will never see any fighting going on it’s just imaginary and that’s what makes it addictive). As for the adds portraying girls with cleavage begging you to register in order to save them the closest you will ever get to seeing one in the game is comparable with chances of going to the moon without a space shuttle, so you judge it for yourself!

February 6, 2010 3:18 am	LuckySoB
	I did play this stupid game last year(it was still called Civony). I sheer irony of it all was that I met a beautiful girl while online. I figure I won the game! I saved my lover! The actual game itself is a cheap chinese ripoff of some real games made by real developers with real lawyers looking for some UMGE blood.

February 12, 2010 9:12 am	JR Salazar
	Evony is the AOL of the 2010′s.

February 14, 2010 9:02 pm	Best Commodore 64 Games Ever « Sublime Nonchalance
	[...] participate in jousting tournaments to woo your lady. If you ever wondered where those bodacious Evony ads get their inspiration from, it’s the original Defender of the [...]

February 19, 2010 2:39 pm	Libra
	It’s funny, because the game sucks.

February 19, 2010 2:44 pm	Uncle
	Probably the best ad campaign on the internets.

February 21, 2010 8:52 am	fizix
	http://www.gossipgamers.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/evony2-400×220.jpg http://www.gossipgamers.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/evony-ad-3.jpg I found these here: http://www.gossipgamers.com/evony-ad-girl-will-get-naked-someday/ I believe the second link I provided is actually take two. And I know you’re missing at least one gif that is basically a moving screen of gameplay.

February 26, 2010 10:57 pm	not surprised
	This doesn’t surprise me. About a week after no longer playing Evony (due to how slow it made my computer), my computer “died” of what I think is a virus. I can still start it on safe mode and use it properly, but I will have to format the whole thing for it to ever work properly again. Are they connected? I don’t know, but it really wouldn’t surprise me as I never had any problems before playing Evony.

March 5, 2010 6:39 pm	Remko
	Just found 4 more today :D http://img294.imageshack.us/i/evony1b.jpg/ (the bra pulses :D) http://img176.imageshack.us/i/evony2.jpg/ (she swings on the rope) http://img85.imageshack.us/i/evony3.jpg/ (the boobs pulse) http://img13.imageshack.us/i/evony4.jpg/

March 8, 2010 5:45 pm	someone
	still waiting for full frontal nude Evony ads.

March 14, 2010 5:52 am	Bgavs
	http://kotaku.com/5345584/evony-devs-sound-a-bit-iffy

March 20, 2010 5:44 pm	Fasddd
	Its ridiculous, but also extremely successful. Look how many players they’ve managed to scrunge up. I played before and during the highly misleading ads, and saw people in the chatroom asking “Where are the chicks” and “Who wants to cyber”. lol

March 25, 2010 4:44 am	SSFF6B
	New Evony ad, captured one frame. http://s934.photobucket.com/albums/ad182/JeffThePicCollector/?action=view&current=EvonyFAIL.jpg

March 31, 2010 12:29 pm	Asmodeus
	Haha! The “Evony Online” ad campaign is an experiment in the effectiveness of advertising. Where did you think such a crap game would get the funds for hiring B-grade porn stars? The radical changes seen in each consecutive ad are experimental: some get more click over x amount of time and on y sites then others.

April 2, 2010 3:20 pm	Jakkanoryz
	the best i have ever seen, its interactive. you can make the parts bigger http://i185.photobucket.com/albums/x99/Faiylen/lol/evonylol.png

April 18, 2010 2:58 am	Steph
	I am SO sick of these ads! NOT EVERYONE IS A STRAIGHT MALE AND I HATE SEEING TITS EVERY TIME I GO ON A WEBSITE!!!! Not to meantion how awkward it is when someone looks over your shoulder like “w…t…f are you looking at?”

April 21, 2010 2:31 pm	Screw Evony – EA Launches Lord Of Ultima For Free | LazyGamer .:: Console and PC Gaming News ::.
	[...] all know about Evony, and you all know about the ridiculous boob-filled ad campaign that it has become infamous [...]

April 29, 2010 2:29 am	Zeirce
	They’re trying SOO hard to get her naked. xD God, why don’t they just post some titties already and get it over with? LOL.

May 1, 2010 5:11 pm	LeChatNoir
	No, I think take 19 is from Second Life

May 3, 2010 5:03 am	omg
	plees give me some porn

May 12, 2010 7:25 pm	sophie
	i aggree even though im not a boy i hat seeing this and its embaressing for girls and me!!!! i feel sick now

May 13, 2010 7:40 pm	BlasTuAwaY
	I… cannot… believe how desprate these Evony people are… What is this world coming to? Porn on role play ads today, Gangsta’s on Dora tomorrow…

May 15, 2010 5:12 pm	joeychainsaw
	you dont need funds “to hire b-grade porn stars” these are stock photos.. from a monthly pay service.. which means you can sign up for one month… download thousands of photos and be covered for any use of them

May 26, 2010 9:30 am	0xym0ron
	The internet IS for porn. People just don’t give a damn about civilization MMORPGs anymore. Where did everything go? Ah, which reminds me, you could get into several bad situations. If your child, wife, girlfriend walked into the room..

May 30, 2010 1:55 am	claudia
	i agree, it’s hard enough to be a girl and go on gaming sites in general (bc a lot of commenters are immature sexist idiots) but then you see an ad like this and it’s like, this wasn’t written by a 13yo boy, this was made by an actual COMPANY…who must have all agreed that it was ok to take a shit on anyone who’s not a straight male

June 1, 2010 8:31 am	Asmodeus
	My point exactly – It’sexperimental. They have certainly not gained much monetary profit from people who have played “Evony Online”!

June 1, 2010 8:34 am	Asmodeus
	I’m a straight male with a libido a mile wide, and I still hate these ads – despicable, talentless. But it matters not to the company – every click on every ad is added to a comparative database.

June 6, 2010 12:31 am	killer face
	guess what new advertisement that the ad makers just made says. “click on the body parts to create your ideal woman.” the picture is just a girl with light up breasts. as always.

June 18, 2010 9:13 pm	SSFF6B
	They didn’t just post another ad, NO! They made a whole website (that links back to Evony) http://in.tk.koramgame.com/template/new-nvsg/?u=102302&u2=tkonakt0154

June 23, 2010 6:41 pm	Oansvarig reklam | discordia
	[...] säljer, säger vän av ordning. Mjo. Men om sex sålde skulle Evony vara en av de största spelutvecklarna i världen, eftersom det är allt de säljer på. [...]

June 28, 2010 10:24 am	P33Z
	Another one http://img20.imageshack.us/img20/526/25394755.jpg leads to: http://www.evony.com/evonyxc13.html?vcgeo&site=26391

June 29, 2010 5:37 am	not tellin u
	evony sucks!!!!!!!!! they make me !!!!!!!!! using near naked woman to advertise is sick gross and wrong !!!!! i hate those stupid idiots !!!!! we all should sue them 4 all they got then they cant advertise nude people 4 their site, heck, they wont have a site !!!!!!well make them pay!!!!! because what they did was wrongand theyll regret ever doing it ,theyll end up poor and miserable all because they did that. so their sunk!!!!!!!!!!!

July 2, 2010 11:47 pm	Well gee, I wonder what LL is going after here - Page 2 - SLUniverse Forums
	[...] surprised no one else has yet drawn the parallel between that ad in the OP, and Evony. __________________ Telling: Like it [...]

July 7, 2010 7:54 pm	Rhetorical Analysis – “Hitler Finds Out About the Downfall Parodies.” « Bo's Blog
	[...] has been banned for “flaming” Downfall parodies that have been posted as well as for “posting Evony ads in the Numa Numa message boards.” Hitler responds by ordering a man named Steiner to continue [...]

July 13, 2010 4:44 am	lol
	hahahahahaha

July 19, 2010 8:06 am	Evony Online, Evony, latest online game | Evony Reviews & Toolbox
	[...] A History of Evony Ads The insanity continues [Updated-Again … If you have browsed a gaming site on the Internet over the past few months then I can guarantee you have come across the ads for the free online game Evony… [...]

July 19, 2010 8:45 pm	I HATE EVONY
	I played Evony for 6 months. When the ad was the first one, that ad was fine with me. Then i go and i am on the net checking my email…..and guess what pops up!! A half-naked woman was on the side of my screen with the word EVONY on it! I was sickened. I had posted a link to evony on my site, and i removed it the day after i saw that! I hope evony gets what is coming to them! They should have kept the first ad, but they went WAY too far. it is so sick!! it makes me want to vomit!! evony, i have one thing to say to you, KISS MY ASS YOU JUST LOST A CUSTOMER!

August 10, 2010 12:47 am	Evony: Surprisingly Good : Igniq.com
	[...] reading about the rash of sleazy ads flooding onto the web about Evony a few months ago, I decided to give the game a try, fully [...]

August 14, 2010 3:03 pm	ur boy
	whoaaaaah whos take 17 soz shes a babe

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