*coming back from research*

Sounds like a great game, but apparently it's run by one of the Chinese companies that founded itself with goldfarming in WoW.

From the wiki entry:
"Evony's 2009 online advertising campaign was criticised for featuring what The Guardian called "a string of increasingly racy images." The images depicted females who, as the ad campaign continued, grew further and further unclothed, until the ad was simply a pair of breasts. A running slogan for the campaign was "Save the queen!", although within the game, there is no queen to save.

One 'Save The Queen' advert featured a woman without a bra or panties lying on the floor with a sword pointed at her breast. Another advertisement used two ladies with their eyes closed and the motto "Save Your Lover," It said "Play Unnoticeably", despite the fact that Evony does nothing to hide itself from network logs and its URL and cookies will still be present in a web browser's history like any other website.

Evony was also accused of using spam promotion by regularly putting 'Bonus Packages' on gameplay.


Other controversies
The game was developed by Universal Multiplayer Game Entertainment, a corporation that has been linked to WoWMine, a Chinese operation known for online gold farming. Criticism made regarding the game has been removed from Evony's forum by moderators.

Copyright issues
The game and website currently uses graphics from various games including Age of Empires: The Age of Kings and Age of Mythology as well as descriptions copied directly from Sid Meier's Civilization III and Civilization IV, as well as from other Mods and Wikipedia.

During the ongoing advertising campaign a particular advert featuring a fairy was apparently taken from the website costumecraze.com. The owners were subsequently informed and blogged about this.