Turns out they’re evil: http://www.bruceongames.com/2009/09/14/evony-libel-me/

http://www.bruceongames.com/2009/09/14/evony-press-release/

http://www.bruceongames.com/2009/09/16/eric-lam-umge-wowmineand-evony/

http://www.bruceongames.com/2009/07/15/more-about-evony/

and the one that started it all: http://www.bruceongames.com/2009/07/10/dont-play-evony/

If you don’t feel like reading it, here’s the gist.

Evony is likely a front for a chinese gold farming company. Their game is very buggy. They make most of their money off of selling in-game items, much the same way that say Habbo or Maple Story does. They’re well known for their sexy, spammy, cheaply made ads featuring images of models shopped out of costume catalogs. Now they’re suing Bruce Everiss, an Australian game marketer, because he wrote a bunch of negative articles about them.

And to top it off, they recently added a special “utility” that you have to download and install which “is an application that you download into your PC to invite your friends to join the game in exchange for in game rewards. This could very well be a Trojan designed to harvest email addresses messenger pbumwords and much else. Would you trust a Chinese gold farmer inside your computer? Many gullible people are.”