Internet users, particularly ones who frequent IT , games and entertainment websites will have been forced to notice for quiet some time now ads for the online free to play game Evony.
A game that uses a lingerie model threads from being naked to advertise some sort of majestic medieval backdrop game. With phrases like 'Come play my lord' 'free forever' 'best web game' littered in its intrusive ads to lure gullible and unexpecting players only to have them realize this game is nothing but tip of the legal edge deceit. Firstly the female imagery used are taken from adult costume store www.costumecraze.com which sports a section on fantasy themes.. and wala you will see familiar models featured in the ads. 2nd the game itself does not feature female escorts or anything of the type because its is a rip of the successful civilization game. And the graphics are pulled from Ages of Empires. At the core of the gameplay pretty much everything in the game is obtained by paying instead of playing and still in some form a legal exploit. And who runs this game? A chinese 'businessman' Eric Lam, who himself have had a shady past. His records show he doesn't believe in honesty or hard work seeing how he had been running gold farms in the past, sued by microsoft for online advertising click fraud, and now he's introduced iEvony a application supposedly used to invite your friends into the game to get you free game coins. Truth is , its most likely a form of trojan that mines data and collects emails, msn cnotacts and address to spew out wads of spam to further his ambitions. As our current laws for cyber justice gets liberated and amended, it shouldn't be too long before a he is faced with a class action lawsuit right?
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