Why does evony advertise with women

She's one of the advisers featured in Evony. For years, she has served as the face of Evony on the game's website, in its social media, and in the game itself. Samantha was chosen by a Facebook community event by the fans, in which thousands voted on the human face to represent the game's Lady Eva.

In the end they landed on Samantha, a face you'll be seeing more of in the coming weeks as she assumes her role as the "Face of Evony. The developers claim that it's going to relevant to the game, and important to the community. Current page: Page 1. Get the best gaming deals, reviews, product advice, competitions, unmissable gaming news and more! Page 1 of 2: Page 1 Page 1 Page 2. See comments. Gaming deals, prizes and latest news.

I dont care whether its true or not.. Its just plain wrong. Oh and all you boys who decided to be a smartass and write "sex" or "more boobs".. You have things coming for you. Grow the fuck up. I found what I believe to be a counter ad to all the evony advertising. It's a side bar ad with a picture of a woman with the header "She is actually in our game, my lord".

A face full of boobs are fine after a long day at work, cramming, and insane drivers. But do i really want to get smacked with this for the entire day!? Heck no!!! In other news And for that matter, on websites that show these ads when they have absolutely nothing to do with sex. And it sucks. Now they move too. You see them all over the place. It's just annoying. And yeah sure you get used to it. But I live in a big family and I get embarrased when my little brother walks up behind me while I'm RPGing and one of those stupid ads shows up!

They need to seriously get a new life. I actually have a neat article about the ads for that game. It wouldn't be such a bad thing if the ads were only rarely seen but they pop up everywhere, I even heard a case where some dude saw his son playing adventure quest and it had one of the more explicit evony ads on the side. I've seen Evony ads more recently which look like the first one.

Perhaps they've seen your post? Now here is my problem with this, They can do as they wish on the net and yet for all there trouble it pays off. If i were to do anything along the same line's i would be sued for false advertising I dont agree with how they draw the attention, However the phrase "step up or shut up" come's to mind.

So you can sit here and talk about it, or you can actually do something. I just found one today, and I took some screen caps to compile it into an. GIF animation. Not a fantastically well-done animation, but you get the idea I saw an ad for Evony like the first one the other day.

Should I send it on? I think it was on Facebook I'm a girl and I'm not offended at all, only because I think its so ridiculous at this point in time that I'm convinced the Ebony marketing team is laughing along with the rest of us :P. I don't really find the ads offensive.

And I'm a girl. I actually find it amusing as hell. Isn't that just so deliously evil? Are all being horrificaly tricked into believeing that. The game is actually good. Which is isn't. That's it's actually free forever. Which it isn't. There will be hot women in the game. Which there isn't. Because there's only corn and potatoes in the game. The "women" in the ads are real. Which they aren't. TWO of them are real. And both pics of these women were stolen by Evony.

Which is probably illegal seeing as how their pics are copyrighted. All the other women are men who have photoshopped hair and boobs. Isn't that just great?! What I find hilarious about evony is that the game is terrible.

Joined up for the 7 day trial out of curiousity and boredon and guess what you get to do all day? Build a castle, plant some potatoes, plant some more corn, build a castle.

And spend 5 dollars everyday from either your paypal account. Everything in the game is based on a coin currency system and are used up very fast because most of the in game items are quite expensive. And you end spending hundreds of dollars everyday if you're that stupid just to buy a horse cart. Or bricks. The guy behind the game is an evil genius at best. He was a gold miner who realized that mining for actual gold was very difficult.

So instead he hired a bunch of people to create a misleading game where you grow corn all day. With ads of photoshopped men to mislead gullible guys who can't tell the difference between a real chick and a photoshopped man. Even though you can blatanly tell by the very obvious adam's apple and huge chins and very manly facial structures that most of the women have. Damn, I can't believe I actually found some post on Google about these Evony online ads.

Every day, two websites I go to always flash these damn ads in my face with half naked women and big boobies. Not that I am complaining about that, but when I visit sites for regular kicks, I don't want to be distracted by these slow scrolling ads of these babes with giant jugs. One time, I actually signed up for the damn game. I found out the hard way that that game sucks and has absolutely nothing to do with babes. It's a dorky, half assed RPG with no real gameplay behind it.

Evony, I await the day that someone gets pissed at you guys for this misleading and over the top advertisements and does something about it. False advertising can be a crime and sticking provocative advertisements on sites where kids visit is sickening.

As for these pictures being photos of men photoshopped Maybe the fake animiated looking ones, but the real photographs appear to be real women. You can only go so far with Photoshop! And I can't find any youtube video showing how they transform them from guys to girls, I haven't seen that.

It's possible to pull off, but I don't see it with these pictures. Its not the fact that its mild titilation. Its more to the point that as a whole the team that created this game are sad, shallow and stupid. Don't play this piece of shit, if you want porn just google it. Install a quick firefox addon and never see these crappy ads again!

Except for seeming them on thesocietypages. Personally, I don't agree with their marketing strategy because of the fact that the ads totally fail to portray what the game is really about. Even though the ads are disrespectful to women, as long as they work to get more users, they'll keep on using them. Lets face it, the internet is full of these kinds of ads, and some actually lead to the real explicit stuff.

It would be nice to have a cleaner safer internet browsing experience. The virtual world still remains with little regulation which is why anyone can access anything, until that changes not much can be done.

Except keep away from what doesn't appeal to us. The Early comments in this thread are just astounding. Holy Crap Neither the men OR the Women who have posted here are innocent. I mean sure, It pisses me off that Evony is doing a bunch of false advertising, but When someone makes a comment about something that I don't agree with, I'm not going to sit there and resort to name calling etc. I mean the following is just childish, and is simply copied and pasted.

Seriously grow up people, and I mean both men AND women:. Okay, first of all, you are probably some typical male with that typical male behavior, which is completely repulsive and unattractive.

Secondly, just because you are a typical male who portrays typical male point of view on this situation doesnt mean the women here are typical bitchy drama queens. Thirdly, being a women I will tell any women on this earth that it is wrong and stupid to be a typical female who bitches and gossips and creates drama just as I am telling the immature guys to grow up on this matter. And there is nothing wrong with sexuality. But just like health class, they give you a choice if you want your kids learning about it in school or not, some parent prefer to talk with them privately, not have them bombarded with these images on the internet, they could get the wrong impression.

And another thing, just because nudity has been social dogmas doesnt mean it is appropriate to display now, things have changed since ancient times. Just because people did something in history doesnt mean we have to repeat it. Todays society is obviously corrupt and distorted with all of this sex appeal and photoshopped pictures of women pressuring young girls to become anorexic, and bulemic when almost every picture is FAKE.

And yes I know that many other ads advertise using sex appeal and I am not singling this one out, all of it is disgusting. Anyone who actually buys a product just because there is a slutty female being sexually portrayed is a serious pervert and needs to grow up. Occams razor cuts both ways, and your blaming of men is pathetic. Men enjoy women. How do you think you were born?

Do you get pissed at a wolf when it bites? You do realize that everything you said is pointing out that you ARE a typical bitch? Grow up, please. You are exaggerating my argument. THere is a difference between fucking and making love to someone.

I mean, sex is a very personal and intimate experience and it is being took advantage of in the media and such by using sex appeal to get people to play a stupid game. That is the whole point of this argument. And how am I a drama queen just because I choose to speak my opinion on a situation I feel strongly about? Everyone should feel comfortable expressing their opinions. Typical men have no respect for women which I do not agree with. Ahahaha, my dear shannon. But good job in further proving your stupidity by assuming that I'm a dude.

My name is Seliny Very manly there. And I'm not being biased at all. I'm simply showing things in an even way. But you can't seem to understand this because you're a feminazi. And all fmeinazis ever do is blame MEN for everything. And think that all men are pigs. Which isn't true. There are plenty of great and nice guys out there. You're just too stuck in your tiny little world full of whining and drama that you never gave yourself to get out of your bubble and find yourself a guy who ISN'T a jerk.

There are jerks and assholes in both genders. Somthing you obviously cannot understand because of your self proclaimed pain of being a woman. I personally hate my fellow women who blame men for everything. Bigotry is wrong. It's just as bad as racism. If you my dear have the right to say that ALL MEN are pigs and that they're all disgusting and that all of them use women. Then all the guys on here bashing you have the right to badmouth YOU and say that you're just a typical bitch.

All guys are typical disguting males to you right? Then you're just another drama queen bitch to them. It's FAIR. Do you think that stereotyping is right and just my sweet? Because it seems that you do. You're just another chick with the victim mentality.

I usually don't take sides in arguments. But for this once I will. I may be a girl but I side with guys on this one. Because you're purposely pushing them down for no reason at all. Most of the dudes on here don't even find the evony ads attractive. Have you even read their comments? Some of them are even defending women saying that the ads are demeaning.

And you continue to badger and hound them for no reason. As for your whole fucking argument about stupid teenage girls being swayed and brainwashed by the media. Who fucking cares? Good for them. I have absolutely no pity for the weak minded and weak willed. And actually both teenage girls and boys are affected by the media.

Stop acting like only girls get affected by this. You're being way too biased. I already stated all the hardships guys have to go through much more then girls in an earlier post which you replied to in a hilariously epic fail way. I don't care for spoiled little girls that think they're too skinny, or that they're too fat, or need to look like this or that.

That's their fault for being naive and gullible. Not MEN'S fault. Growing up I never had any damn bitchy issues about how I looked or if boys liked me. Because I don't give two shits about shallow appearances.

If a guy thought I was hot. Good for him. If a guy thought I was ugly good for him. I didn't care. If a guy thought I was attractive and wanted to have sex with me. I dressed how I wanted to, kept to myself, and focused on what was more important to me in life. And the fact that you think that society is corrupted because of sex appeal ads. Then you've once again proven yourself to be stupid.

There are so many things that are messed up in the world. But fucking ads that use sex appeal?! That's probably the least important thing in the world.

It's women like you that make intelligent, rational women look bad. Because there are waaaay to many women like you. That freak out about the most stupid and insignificant things.

About how all the images are all stolen images of guys from porn sites and then photoshopped into looking like women. So your argument is moot. Because you've pretty much been defending gay guys this whole time. How does it feel my dear? To have so passionately debated about a topic you've so wholefully defended. Only to be sticking up for MEN? Seeing as how the evony ads are photoshopped guys. You've been arguing for the exploitation of gay men.

Do you want a cookie now for pointlessly defending the wrong gender? Seliny19 Believes they are Gay men, photoshopped, While Shannon and other misc people think they are all Females. I think its just best we all agree to disagree that Evony, Right or wrong, should just find a different way of advertising because its false advertising. Chocobrain: LOL holy crap I can't believe how everyone seems to be uncharacterizing me.

It's crazy haha. I am not stereotyping that every girl is a slut and every guy is disgusting. ANd I am not hatefilled just because I am against porn and perverted guys! I mean its not like I am trying to judge anyone, I apologize for coming off as a bitch but its a heated debate and I got carried away. But the point of this is that Evony is violating the law with false advertising and possibly stealing pics if they aren't photoshopped I think this argument was blown way out of proportion.

Seliny what does me being young have to do with anything? I am 18 years old and have seen things in my life. If I have an opinion about something, I just have an urge to express it which is why I came to this site. If you didn't have an interest on this topic, why did you google the evony ads? Seliny I agree with you to the extent that I can't do anything about it. I understand that Sex has been used in advertising for years, that doesn't make it right or okay though.

Murder and Rape has been a crime for years but it doesn't make it okay. I know your thinking "well thats completely different and more serious". But I believe that it is porn and sexual advertising that makes a huge difference when it comes to crazy psycho-paths who look at it and makes them want to rape a girl or whatever.

I mean this is what our society has been reduced to. Its a serious concern, girls and boys of all ages, shapes, and sizes being raped and killed. I hope I never grow out of feeling this way towards the subject as I get older. I firmly believe in one thing that you don't, it doesn't make you right or me right.

Its an opinion. I hate when people dont have an open mind and just assumes they are right just because they are older or whatnot. I am entitled to my opinion. These arent facts we are speaking, its our opinions. I wish you could just respect my opinion and have an open mind about this.

I've used photoshop enough to know how to do crap like that and its highly unlikely. I pulled up youtube to actually see if Evony had done so and the search results came up negative.

So give me a link to that youtube video. Since they are Chinese based, they can do whatever the hell they want, like they've always been doing. Posting up half naked women on evony You get the picture. So yeah. Boo on them its really all about money. If they want to go down in The world records as being the gayest game on earth let em.

People send hundreds of dollars just to play that stupid game. Dude, I play guitar so everytime I look up a tab or something and then click on the page from google, there's like evony ads all ofver the place. There's always chicks bending over half naked They're just using sex as ads. Found this one where the chick's boobs just glow on and off. I am disturbed and alarmed by some of the "discussion" on this board. Troll city. This comment board could be of use, I suppose, in highlighting the inability of many to have rational and respectful arguments about representation and stereotypes.

I can't believe the moderators haven't removed the abusive and somewhat triggering tirades that are evident on this page. This is bullshit. I go to leave a comment with a couple links and it won't even show up.

People, I found a new ad, want me to post about it? I guess not. I have to agree with Shannon on this. Yes, I like girls. No, I don't think they should be half naked on every webpage on the internet. And I don't care what you people say, I don't believe children should be exposed to this. It doesn't matter if it causes you to rape someone or not. What's sad is I actually used to play this game. It's rather fun. But when their ads came out, it really just ruined the game for me.

And something tells me I'm not the only one to feel this way. I can't actually see these ads helping them. I really don't like how Evony does this. It's not only misleading, but I, personally, find it somewhat sexist. Do you ever see ads with nude men? I sure haven't, but I think it would be a nice thing to see. Not because I like men, but because, for once, the media wouldn't be sexualizing women. I like how everyone refers to moral or immoral without having defined a basis for moral absolutes.

Obviously, you don't know what morality actually is. Your morality is relative: subjective. It's called relativism. If your culture accepts human sacrifice to a sun god for productive corn crops, then that's moral. Analogy, don't take me out of context. Your moral absolutes are relative to your culture. That's your definition of morality: relativism. You should frame your opinions within the framework of relativism. So first, settle on a basis for moral absolutes, which you don't have.

Then argue about morals, which you absolutely cannot you groundless, immoral, relativist. Man, this ad campaign just blows my mind. I notice the grammar is starting to fall apart, too "come play my lord"? I am very upset too!! Blah Blah Blah However, I am upset for a different reason. I have been playing Evony, and will continue to play.. Because I could careless what others think. It upsets me that all these ads were out there, and I never saw them before. So, now I keep searching the Evony maps for a trail leading to to a woman who asked me to play?

I cant seem to find her Apparently Evony has done an amazing job of clouding my thoughts with scantily clad women, and I say carry on Evony. If you don't like it don't play. Who are you to pass judgment on how a company advertises?

These online ads got racier and racier, depicting females in seductive poses or clad with less clothes each time, although the game itself has nothing to do with sex, and the campaign in simply aimed at targeting males to play the game. Anyways, if you want to see examples of what I mean, context.

I tried Evony, and have to say I didn't care for it. I find the reactions and controversy to these ads interesting.

Firstly, sex sells! It's been proven over and aver again. So I don't really see how Evony is any different from beer commercials, for example. Some people have been claiming it's porn, and whether or not that's true, people can't seem to figure if porn is right or wrong. I believe, that on a purely moral level it is wrong I don't try to tell anyone what they should or shouldn't do, but for women to say it is exploitative to the female sex, but not to the male sex is, well, incorrect.

Men are just as naked as women, and just as likely to be watched and lusted over. But there is no sex in Evony, as far as I could tell. People mostly guys claim it is false advertising, but Evony makes no overt claims that what you are clicking on will display nearly nude women So, Porn is wrong, but i watch it?

Am I a hypocrite? I'm a legal adult who is capable of making his own decisions, and if I or any one else wants to do sonething..

Now, you could argue that enabling the exploitation of people by watching porn is harmful I certainly don't think that any of the porn I've watched involved people who were forced into it, and from what i understand, some porn stars make a very respectable amount of money. I think that sex and sexy images and I've seen those that cater to women, too! I do think that there is too much exposure out there I mean come on But while I agree that porn does not contribute to rape etc, I do think that younger people can develop an unrealistic attitude towards sex.

Having said all that, I have to say that while the images in the Evony ads are provocative, I do not consider them porn. While they leave less to the imagination than other ads, I consider them no worse than beer commercials Which perhaps goes to my earlier statement, and the sight of flesh, naked or almost so, is so prevalent that we just accept it, or become numb to at least the majority of sexy images, be they in beer commercials, billboards, or even catalogues.

It's a societal norm now, and whether or not you agree with it I don't think it's going to change. So really the only option any of us have is to make our own decision Don't watch it if you have a problem with it, and if you don't have a problem with it, fine, but at least be discreet! The People VS. Evony case in now open at AllRise online court. I for fals addvertising and im not joking.

And why shouldn't they? Can't you think someone is hot? I think it's stupid to blame males for 'objectifying women' based on the evony ads even if they are ridiculous, hahahaha. Lesbians are just as capable of objectifying women, and woman are just as capable of objectifying men! And hey, if these ads are what works for the people who made Evony to get people to play their game, then good for them!

If nothing else, at least Evony ads make me LOL. Well, all i can say is that a lot of kids get the wrong idea with these advertisements parade around. I disagree with the advertisement of sexual provoking images ON websites meant for kids. Also, there's a few other ads floating around that poke fun at the Evony ones.

I recall one for some cartoon MMO or another captioned "You can play indiscreetly", with a funny animation I can't grab a screenshot at the moment, but rest assured it's out there.

Those guys at Evony have humour lol, they have absolutely no boundaries and they don't give a fuck. But for real, those ads are getting annoying. Some todler's mother seems to like spamming these comments with her pro-censorship idealism.

It's not that the ads are provocative, it's that they're misleading. The game itself sucks, and is certainly not "adult themed" or whatever you want to call it. I think it's absolutely hilarious that I found a copy of the porno they took the cover girls off of in my FYE store today, while helping a customer. The ad they used it for was the Dec. All they did was just change the background to the sun setting in the background on water from the actual porno cover.

That's just sad. Thanks me if i helped [ In the Madison Avenue game, sex sells. Advertisers have always known this. So your ads for whiter teeth, cars, liqueurs all have subliminal sex that hooks you all the time it pretends that it isn't there. But it is, and you'll find it when you start looking a little deeper behind the items being 'sold'.

Magazines don't have sexy chicks on their covers for nothing; motorcycles don't have babes in hot pants leaning across the seats just for fun. Advertisers know that they need to make an ad appealing and sex does that faster than anything. Evony cuts through all the bullshit and all the pretense. It also begs the question of where ad space is being purchased in any case for these games.

If banners for Evony are showing up on sites frequented by strategy and simulation fans, the confusion of the imagery with what kind of game is being sold might be less problematic than it is on a site with a broader gaming audience.

Gamers get signs like medieval themes and swords, they may not associate that with simulation, though. During that era, many advertisers seemed to think that getting any ad space on the kinds of sites with the biggest hit counts during that time period, largely sites about video games or that might feature pictures of Cindy Margolis was a good idea, even though, the 18 to 35 male, computer nerd demographic that frequented those sites might not be the best group to market your fabric softener or gardening tools to selling Cheetos might have been a more sensible bet.

I also maintain that just because you are targeting gamers, that you might realize that there are more specific venues to target the right kinds and that if you do know that your banners will be showing up on a general gaming site that making your message about what your game is much less ambiguous helps a lot.

In other words as an advertiser, you might do well to attempt to play up the nature of your game to an audience that actually wants to play that kind of game. I promise that there is a whole audience out there that really wants to play a good economic sim with interesting combat options and tricky decisions about resource management.

You might just want to tell them that your game contains those elements. All this might seem really obvious: be truthful about what you are advertising, sell to the right audience, etc. Evony : Desperate much? Finally, what advertisers might need to learn is that gamers might best be understood by what their name implies, those who like to play games. As the legendary flop, BMX XXX succeeded in demonstrating, just slapping some pornography on top of a game about BMX tricks is not a sure fire way to get product flying off the shelves.

Gamers interested in BMX tricks might first and foremost be more interested in playing a really well designed game in the genre.