Comments on: Evony: Second Life Avatars?

By: Daria

Daria — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 05:58:17 +0000

Its Chinese multiplayer Civilizations pretty much. I play it. It can get pretty fun, but the ethics behind the company is typical of the Chinese pirating community. My ex used to do the pay-to-play and his card hasn’t been stolen so I guess thats covered, but half their in game material is copypasted from Civilizations and their ads tend to be pictures from Halloween costume catalogs photoshopped in with “Save me my lord! Play Evony” or something.

By: Just What Is Evony’s Game? « Metaversally Speaking..

Just What Is Evony’s Game? « Metaversally Speaking.. — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 11:16:40 +0000

[...] Shopping Cart Disco busted Evony’s latest faux pas, showcasing their complete disregard for copyright in using Harper Beresford’s snapshot in their advertising campaign. But just who are Evony, and why do they carry such a bad rep? [...]

By: Daria

Daria — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 20:37:57 +0000

Oh god…Evony is rather notorious for photoshopping costume order websites for their ads but..seriously? SL avs? First off, I have yet to see an avatar that I would consider “hot” and second, how low can they go? Whats next? Stealing custom Sims from ModTheSims?

By: JYY

JYY — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 11:26:24 +0000

get a bloody life

By: fray jigsaw

fray jigsaw — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 06:29:48 +0000

And let the selective comment approval begin!

By: yeah right

yeah right — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 17:26:11 +0000

lamebook is funny as hell! i LoL’d very much at it.

By: admin

admin — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 13:15:52 +0000

Sorry guys â€“ itâ€™s a screencap, Iâ€™m not using it to advertise a service, make money, or claim as my own, but for journalistic documentation. It stays up.

By: istillhatethisblog

istillhatethisblog — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 10:11:02 +0000

Actually, she’s probably technically allowed to leave it up because this article would most likely fall under Fair Use.

That being said, “technically allowed” is not always the same as “the right thing”… but you didn’t all expect Tenshi to show some integrity NOW, did you? I mean, is it the first time you’ve read this blog? Did you just rez yesterday?

By: Fray Jigsaw

Fray Jigsaw — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 09:53:46 +0000

That’d never work. The robots would know right from wrong.

By: hatman

hatman — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 08:59:38 +0000

I’m beginning to see how this website works…in that it doesn’t, you know, work. The content might as well be created by pantless robots masterbating to pictures of toasters.

By: fray jigsaw

fray jigsaw — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:35:19 +0000

Because when Tenshi is hypocritical about the things she posts about, she never posts in the comments section of that post ever again. Psychic dissonance resolved.

By: hatman

hatman — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:31:40 +0000

Um…why hasn’t it been removed if the original creator of said image has asked you to take it down days ago…? Anyone?

By: Truth Sayer

Truth Sayer — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:16:10 +0000

fuck that dmca shit. sue them. make a ton of money. hurt them bad enough to put them out of business.

By: stephen venkman

stephen venkman — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 18:57:10 +0000

That’s interesting. Now it’s probably cool to take down the image as It appears no one should be using it.

Thanks for keeping us in the know.

By: caLLie cLine

caLLie cLine — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:50:18 +0000

she’s my lady, and i don’t give permission for this photo to be used anywhere!!! please remove it henceforth!

By: hatman

hatman — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:37:36 +0000

I just saw this image on isohunt. *laughs*

By: Nivaya

Nivaya — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:08:44 +0000

Wow I havn’t seen an Evony ad for ages, I’d assumed they’d been “stopped” in some way. They’re beyond notorious for stealing images of pretty ladies from all over the place, which have nothing whatsoever to do with their scammy game.

By: Terry T

Terry T — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 04:17:26 +0000

I don’t think Lamebook has much control over their ads, due to the random generation. You’d want to go to the ad company that they’re using and tell them. Evony is constantly ripping off other game artwork and badly photoshopping it together; just recently I saw Paine from FFX-2 on one of their ads. To my understanding, they’re a sad Civ-style game based out of China looking to rip people off, and they don’t give a damn that they’re ripping off people other than their player base.

By: Harper Beresford

Harper Beresford — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 03:44:23 +0000

I found the evony ad once I opened Internet Explorer as my normal browser has ad blockers. I will be writing to both lamebook and evony.

Can you please also take down this image as it is protected under copyright law in the United States and is derivative of a work I have published on flickr.com Thanks for bringing it to my attention.

By: Elsa Weatherwax

Elsa Weatherwax — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 03:06:44 +0000

I tell my boyfriend “Play now my lord…” Harper I hope you sort them out.

By: admin

admin — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 02:45:06 +0000

Harper, have you emailed them and called them out on it? It’s hosted on Flickr, and therefore protected by Flickr… luckily

By: Harper Beresford

Harper Beresford — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 02:34:17 +0000

Yep.. it’s mine. http://slfashionpassion.wordpress.com/2009/09/05/fantasy-girl/
Ah imitation is the finest form of flattery isn’t it? Can’t even do their own photo

By: blahblahblahwhatever

blahblahblahwhatever — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 02:05:47 +0000

lmfao