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    Oh gawd, the hysterical "Won't somebody think of the children!" catch cry.
    As I said the last time someone brought out this argument, I've got enough to worry about without the added stress of thinking that some screaming Mimi in internet land seems to think that, based on the ads and that age demographic I'm getting ever closer to, that I'm a drug crazed, lust fuelled, sexual deviant. Guess I better stop playing Civivor then.

    Posts like this are garbage, pure and simple. A little use of that superpower known as 'Common Sense' would make it rather obvious that the 'sex-fiends' looking for a casual sex site would probably figure out that Evony is just a game, with rather outdated 2d graphics, by the time they hit that point where they chose a picture and a state to play in. As for the rest of the guys looking for boobs, I'm pretty sure they're the kids who thought this was some kind of FRPMMOG, like WoW (or one of the play for free knock offs), and soon leave when they run out of speakers and get bored.
    Which is actually the whole crux of the matter with the ads. Yes they are risque, in the context of a lot of the sites they've turned up on, but the 'sex sells' is only a small portion of the community complaint. What seems to be the greater concern is that the ads create an impression that the game is 3d FRPG, rather than a small step up from a play-by-mail war game. Which is leading to more serious players getting annoyed at the world chat, and frustrated by the artificial inflation of player numbers on the servers.
    Hysterically screaming 'Paedophiles and rapists are attracted by those ads' allows the company to stand by their official statement as it is written -

    *All current adverts will be revamped to a more conservative nature (still waiting for that)
    *All future adverts will also be more conservative in their presentation that the ones in question now

    i.e. put some more clothes on the girls, maybe bring back the warrior guy, but no need to make the ads portray the game as an RTS wargame.
    (which is still going to create some issues when the C&C, Starcraft, Warhammer, etc... players come in and wonder way they can't see their units marching across the board - but one fight at time)
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    Quote Originally Posted by Archangel View Post
    Oh gawd, the hysterical "Won't somebody think of the children!" catch cry.
    As I said the last time someone brought out this argument, I've got enough to worry about without the added stress of thinking that some screaming Mimi in internet land seems to think that, based on the ads and that age demographic I'm getting ever closer to, that I'm a drug crazed, lust fuelled, sexual deviant. Guess I better stop playing Civivor then.

    Posts like this are garbage, pure and simple. A little use of that superpower known as 'Common Sense' would make it rather obvious that the 'sex-fiends' looking for a casual sex site would probably figure out that Evony is just a game, with rather outdated 2d graphics, by the time they hit that point where they chose a picture and a state to play in. As for the rest of the guys looking for boobs, I'm pretty sure they're the kids who thought this was some kind of FRPMMOG, like WoW (or one of the play for free knock offs), and soon leave when they run out of speakers and get bored.
    Which is actually the whole crux of the matter with the ads. Yes they are risque, in the context of a lot of the sites they've turned up on, but the 'sex sells' is only a small portion of the community complaint. What seems to be the greater concern is that the ads create an impression that the game is 3d FRPG, rather than a small step up from a play-by-mail war game. Which is leading to more serious players getting annoyed at the world chat, and frustrated by the artificial inflation of player numbers on the servers.
    Hysterically screaming 'Paedophiles and rapists are attracted by those ads' allows the company to stand by their official statement as it is written -

    *All current adverts will be revamped to a more conservative nature (still waiting for that)
    *All future adverts will also be more conservative in their presentation that the ones in question now

    i.e. put some more clothes on the girls, maybe bring back the warrior guy, but no need to make the ads portray the game as an RTS wargame.
    (which is still going to create some issues when the C&C, Starcraft, Warhammer, etc... players come in and wonder way they can't see their units marching across the board - but one fight at time)
    What I don't get is all these types of games advertise they are MMORPGS which I feel they are not.

    I think they are all jumping on the popular term bandwagon.

    An MMO has an expansive world, with expansive character development while Evony is in essence a pvp war game. Now if Evony had little mini games within it and its development expanded outwards instead of upwards, I would start to reconsider.

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    Quote Originally Posted by chinothepony View Post
    What I don't get is all these types of games advertise they are MMORPGS which I feel they are not.

    I think they are all jumping on the popular term bandwagon.

    An MMO has an expansive world, with expansive character development while Evony is in essence a pvp war game. Now if Evony had little mini games within it and its development expanded outwards instead of upwards, I would start to reconsider.
    While some of the kiddies and fan boys will say, 'Smart Marketing', it's as you put it, they jump on the bandwagon of what is percieved as a more succesful type of game (can you blame them when WoW is using 15 mil. players in its ads?).
    The downside to this 'dumb' strategy, is that it attracts people who are expecting to see exactly what you've described. Any wonder we have so many single cities that haven't progressed past the first hour of play littering the servers...

    http://bbs.evony.com/showpost.php?p=344401&postcount=43
    Anyone actually seen one of the numerous responses that isn't basically -

    "We are aware of the issue. It has been addressed. Please see our other responses that say the same thing. Thread Locked."
    I searched, but I might've missed it.

    Suggestion - Start putting updates into the official response. Hopefully then we wont see anymore "Paedophiles are attracted by these ads/Won't somebody think of the children!" hysterical topics.

    Or better still, give us more things to do in the game/cut down the research & build times so we aren't getting bored with 'playing secretly' and finding something to 'rant' about in the forums.

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