Quote Originally Posted by Mal Andrew View Post
Most posters here are missing the point of lag, bots, captchas and poor support. This is the business model of evony.

1. evony is a highly addictive game.
2. lag is an important tool for evony. When a server starts, people spend money to get ahead quickly. As more players join and become active, the lag begins. As the lag becomes unbearable, a new server starts. If a server has a history of high spending, they introduce captchas to induce players to leave for the new server (to spend money there to get ahead).
3. evony isn't concerned about bots, in fact they count on them. bots give them a scapegoat for inserting captchas.
4. evony doesn't care at all about how much you whine or gripe. They know that a large majority of players will simply move to the new server so that the cycle of spending can repeat itself.
Interestingly this is EXACTLY the meaning of the message I posted in the General Discussion Board LAST WEEK. You will be repp'd Sir!

If Evony doesnt' care about customer service, which is BLATANTLY obvious by the actions of THE COMPANY, then there is actually something one can do. One should not drone on constantly about how they intend to get their money back through nefarious actions, one should simply use the tools that EVONY has put into place to affect the change. Evony wants to use FACEBOOK and other Social Media outlets to market their 'game' and hopefully entrap thousands of other unsuspecting potential consumers - and they can't control that. FACEBOOK reputation is important to companies that have exposed themselves to the world by using it - and trust me there are MANY more that can continuously let people know the truth than there are that can even attempt to control the message. I'm wondering if an effective, grass-roots generated Facebook campaign against the dealings of the comapny would eventually lead to true changes, or if they'd just shut down their Facebook plans.

By the way, I got 4 captchas in 3 hours. As suspected, one did in fact totally mess up an attack I had initiated, causing me to WASTE another 2 hours as I could not send timed components properly and would have exposed myself to massive loss of highly valued troops. Luckily THIS time I was able to recall - but the fact is that all the 'promises' of what captcha will do are downright LIES. What captcha will do: push players to other servers, cause you to WASTE more time than you already are wasting, generate total dissatisfaction.

Bottom line: Evony has stuck its' head in the sand yet again - and until the community rises up against it fully, they wont hear or do a thing differently.