After a month straight of traffic decline on the Evony.com (according to Alexa.com), they have gone on the offensive, blaming a blogger for their demise.
Bruce Everiss, a veteran gaming marketer, has received two letters from an Australian law firm threatening to sue him over reviews of the gaming company’s advertising campaign and business practices.
Now let’s get something cleared up.. We love Evony. We run a site dedicated to it, give everything away free, and sit online, or 4-5 servers, all day. However, we went to Bruce’s site before this and never saw anything defamatory… We went back – Still nothing.
This does one thing for Evony.. it discredits them.
Read more at BruceonGames.com
I think that the reduction in vistor is due to the failed merger of worlds 1-5.
Many people wern’t able to get online before the merger and even more havn’t been able to get on now. Due the disapearance of thousands (yes thousands) of player accounts and many people are sick to death of it, including me. So many people have lost every thing they have worked hard on for months.
This was a stupid move by Evony every hates it, no one likes its. Please Evony Masters look in the forum look at the situtation that is unfolding or has then write a report about it.
Call of the Warlords = fail
http://www.bruceongames.com/2009/07/10/dont-play-evony/
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I like this game, but it has two things going against it–one, it’s only free if you refuse to shell out 30 bucks or more a month for the same package you bought the month before.
two, it has an upward limit of ten levels. Once you have built everything and taken over everything you either get bored and leave or move to a different server. That does get old very quickly.
People are leaving Evony because Evony is a lame game. Plain and simple. Once you’ve built everything, gotten 10 cities, etc, there’s really nothing left for you to do. Unless you want to raid all day and night…
Basically, Evony took a bunch of parts from games that people liked, smashed them together, changed a few things here and there without telling us (Ballista change anyone?) and decided to go and ban/bash/sue/etc anyone who told the truth. Thanks a lot Evony. Glad to know you appreciate unbiased opinions, freedom of speech, and the truth.
Don’t get me wrong, I had fun playing. No, scratch that, I had more fun talking to the people I met there. If I quit Evony, I’ll just keep the friends. Maybe we’ll all go play something better, something with a plot. Something that has an actual queen to save.
Biggest Problem is lack of an end game. They need to institute an end game for it to succeed.
The problems with Evony were monitor by below 16 year goons as moderators and after the merger wn1 to wn4, they never kept their promises of offer free coin from 300 to 1000 which depend on your title and they too like to squeeze the money juices from you guys to buy evony coins. So it’s better to leave this game now.
I agree that an endgame needs to be put in place. Give us a goal to go after.. Just building and plundering NPCs is not enough. If we are going to spend money here then I feel that there should be nothing to lose. Also, I dont care for the people that are just plain mean. I ve meet some good folks here and to see them and me plundered over and over again is just plain mean.. Makes us want to stop playing..
Evony advertises as a free game. However, the chances of advancement are almost nil unless one pays. And pays. I have been playing for nearly a month now and have yet to find even one medal in a valley raid. No medal. No advancement.
Perhaps the advertised free game is merely the demo version.
The thing I am really sick of is the constant need to raid NPC 5’s so my troops dont starve. You can have 200k archers + standard troops in each city and its not so bad to feed.. but once you go to all the time and trouble of slowly building up heaps of ballista and ctapults, it becomes absolutely annoying and boring just trying to stop them from starving to death before you actually get to use them. WE NEED FOOD HOLIDAYS!!! Ooooo and honor sucks too apparently.. I was at 20 mil honor and ranked number 4.. even with penecillin my cure rate was 13%.. So you get punished for your achievemants and efforts. thanks Evony!
Yup… food sucks in this game. I spent $5 USD to get 250 coins and that was a good deal. I still had over 150 cents left by “endgame NPC5 gorging”. Never got beyond knight, not stupid enough to buy medals when you need a LOT of medal boxes to get there. Overall, fun the 1st time around, sort of fun the 2nd time around. Also the racist and sexist banter by many users in hate-emails and in whispers and chats is oddly tolerated by Evony. Very strange for China to allow so much “free speech”.
they make it impossible to get medals. the drop rate is far too low, it is starting to wear thin
I like Evony. Ive not got bored of it. To all those idiots who think it gets boring plundering Npcs. Then why not get in a war. Maybe get in a big alliance. On server3 im in an alliance called SEED. We dont get bored, bc. in chat we crack jokes. We talk about everyday life, and we attack anyone we want. If we get attacked then ask another member to reinforce you.
Ive been in SEED for almost 6 months. And im still having fun. We plunder,Talk, and we have fun doing it.
idk about you guys, but if u want to get in a fun alliance then go for the big ones.
So wat if you reach lv10 everything. Wat you do after that is train millions of troops. Attack someone and wipe the person ur attacking out. The person will then mail you saying somnething bad about you, then wat you do is laugh at him.
Im going to play Evony along time!
-Dog69
-Server3
-Alliance SEED
-Best regards and try something new on evony.
Ps. If you get bored try attacking someone with a lot more prestige than you. Or double team on an enemy. Just have fun
1 more thing. Daveo is right on one thing. Honor does suck. Why would you even get honor. And the coins.
But u guys are wrong about everything else.
Coins are to expensive and hold realistically very little value in the game…
People are getting tired of farming and have found that the end game result is boring and not worth the time or effort to up keep…
No extra building queue or extra slot… a lot of other games are gaining players because they have this…
There’s a lot of reasons why Evony AGE I is falling apart…
There’s even more reasons why AGE II will find a similar demise…