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    EVONY, LLC ISSUES LAWSUIT AGAINST “MALICIOUS” BLOGGER FOR MULTIPLE VIOLATIONS OF INTERNATIONAL LIBEL STANDARDS
    Video Game Developer Seeks Damages from Blogger for “Gross Disregard for the Truth”

    NEW SOUTH WALES, AUSTRALIA, September 14, 2009 – The developer for the popular online video game Evony has filed suit against blogger Bruce Everiss for posting defamatory and false statements online about the company and the game. The lawsuit follows multiple rebuffed attempts to reconcile the matter out of court.

    Evony’s Australia based legal counsel has proceeded on multiple fronts internationally against the libelous assaults that Bruce Everiss has leveled against Evony, LLC, its game “Evony: Age I”, and its corporate leadership on his weblog and in publications worldwide in recent weeks.

    Evony’s attorneys said Bruce Everiss’ attacks have caused significant damage to the company’s brand and the gaming experience for Evony’s users and millions of fans around the world.

    “For weeks, we have worked to avoid taking our case into the legal courts, hoping instead to persuade Mr. Everiss to see the error of his ways and correct the multiple fraudulent and false claims he has made against Evony,” said Dean Groundwater, Evony’s chief legal counsel and a principle with the Australian firm Warren McKeon ****son. “In the more than 15 years I have been practicing law, I have never seen such a gross disregard for the truth as that displayed by Mr. Everiss. His actions bring an enormous discredit to all online journalists internationally and have substantially impacted Evony’s reputation in Australia. I am confident the Supreme Court of New South Wales will see through the falsehoods being perpetrated by Mr. Everiss and will hold him accountable for his blatantly illegal and libelous actions.”

    “Mr. Everiss’ attempts to spread his patently false charges to others in the online community cannot be allowed to go unanswered,” said Benjamin Gifford, Vice Development Director for the Legal IP Strategic Division for Delaware based Evony, LLC.

    “In the digital age in which we now live, online journalists and bloggers – and the traditional media outlets that may rely upon them as sources – must strive for a higher standard of integrity and accuracy. Mr. Everiss’ complete disregard for even the most basic tenets of journalistic responsibility have left our company no alternative but to take these legal actions. We hope now, in facing the full light of day before the Supreme Court, that Mr. Everiss will finally come clean and clear the record,” said Gifford.

    The suit, which was filed in the Supreme Court of New South Wales, Australia comes after weeks of attempts to convince Bruce Everiss of the false nature of his information. For a complete list of the libelous actions committed by Everiss and a copy of the legal filing please go to the Evony corporate site.

    About Evony, LLC
    Evony, LLC is the developer and publisher of the globally popular online game, Evony: Age I, which is a massively multiplayer online real time strategy game (MMORTS). With more than eight million users, Evony is highly popular in the online gaming world and played in more than a dozen countries around the globe. More information about the company and game can be found at http://www.evony.net. Evony is also on Twitter at www.Twitter.com/EvonyOfficial and on Facebook at www.Facebook.com/EvonyGame.
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    Now really? You think he's ruining your reputation? Please....

    Your advertising department is the one ruining your "reputation," if you could call it that. Honestly, spamming Google Ads so that your game is known, and clicked on? I've read other Evony related articles, and well the reviews weren't very good.

    In the hopes of drawing a young audience (and we know you are) you make advertisements depicting women showing cleavage, or are wearing next to nothing? What sort of image are you trying to achieve?

    You're taking legal action because you're being criticized? Guess what! We're allowed to do it! Are you going to pursue numerous other law-suits for people that have written a reviews of your game, whether they be reflect poorly on you?

    Do you know what's going to happen? Nothing, you're wasting your time to be honest. Maybe...just maybe you should learn from this, and if you do you'll start making more appropriate ads.

    Oh yeah, and I think you are violating your agreement with Google when you spam their Ad system.

    EDIT: Yes, we're I'm allowed to publicly put forth my own opinion. Evony allowed one of their staff to post the current situation, as shown above.

    As this was meant to be seen as a rant, I forgot to add the "what do you think about this?" So please, put forth your own opinions.
    Last edited by Koolaid; 09-18-2009 at 09:32 PM. Reason: In response to the "inappropriate" comment

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    Finally someone who agrees. This game should get shut down if they are doing all of this to keep their STOLEN game alive then I don't think it should be here.

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    This discussion is inappropriate. You are not involved in the lawsuit, have no knowledge of the details of the lawsuit and, in the end, are only looking to incite negativity within our community.

    Whatever your intentions, this topic is inappropriate.

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    Quote Originally Posted by GhostOfKempion View Post
    This discussion is inappropriate. You are not involved in the lawsuit, have no knowledge of the details of the lawsuit and, in the end, are only looking to incite negativity within our community.

    Whatever your intentions, this topic is inappropriate.

    As I've noted above, Evony posted the current situation of the lawsut, making it public to the Evony community. We're allowed to throw our opinions into the mix. We are in fact discussing Evony, are we not? So my "intentions" are deemed appropriate. If I want to slander Evony then they (Evony team) should make a "rant" forum.

    Thanks for providing your opinion, keep them coming! If you'd like to discus this please don't hesitate to post some more!


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    I'll do you one better.

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    Yes, if you look it up a lot of his claims seem at least on the surface to be quite true and have a lot of evidence.

    The Microsoft Lawsuit is even referenced on the Microsft Media release website (though no details as parts of the case are on going). So Evony's claim that it is false is itself quite false.

    There also seems to be some evidence linking Evony with several other sites such as http://www.kingory.com/ etc. Not to mention the obvious rip-off of resources from other games (not that I care, really who cares?? But why is Evony denying it?).

    I also myself saw the information about Evony being linked to certain Chinese companies and Super Continental US LLC (who run wow-mine) before it was removed. Why did Evony do this?


    I've already spent USD$85 though.. lol.

    I would really like some clarification on why Evony is making false claims if everything is so harmless and legal?

    Perhaps one of the more balanced reviews I have seen so far:
    http://thebigcritique.com/2009/05/evony/

    Lastly those Evony ads were truly atrocious.
    Really who thought they were a good idea at all???

    And why auto-bot spam them out?
    http://www.************.com/2009/07/10/dont-play-evony/

    Evony is a fairly alright game. Why sully yourselves?
    Last edited by FoxyBunny; 09-18-2009 at 05:50 PM.

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    What the OP said is true. Don;t forget what happen lately so much screw up with the server merge also, thousand of complaint.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Satan
    I said before I need to be in the top 100 players or else I won't be able to defend myself.
    Quote Originally Posted by Lord Ken Deathmarr View Post
    You know, I don't understand your post sometimes ok? So I take it as a mean threat.

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    Now, if we had a player advocate online...

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    There's no reason for these discussions to be started again...if anyone really wants to have a look at hours worth of discussions there are already threads that have done it to the death; they can feel free to necro them all they want, but startin' the exact same topics again is a waste..especially when it begins w/ "finally, someone who agrees w/ me"...god damn, you have half the community that agrees and half the community that don't....

    As Ghost said; this doesn't need to be here.

    Quote Originally Posted by Satan
    I said before I need to be in the top 100 players or else I won't be able to defend myself.
    Quote Originally Posted by Lord Ken Deathmarr View Post
    You know, I don't understand your post sometimes ok? So I take it as a mean threat.

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