'''Readers are encouraged to avoid this game ''entirely.'' It is a spyware program in disguise.'''

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* AdaptationDisplacement:
** ''Evony'' is, gameplay-wise, an exact clone of an earlier Chinese browser game known as ''Kingory'' (they're even based off the same source code, and may or may not have been made by the same company), which most people have never heard of.
** Oddly enough, the original ''Evony'' itself had fallen victim to this. While it was still very infamous (just look at all the various things that reference it), in terms of actual gameplay and player base didn't look good. On top of the "covert spyware" and "lackluster ad campaigning" controversies, it was massively out-competed by its own copycats, who've not only improved on a lot of ''Evony''[='=]s flaws as a game but also have refrained from being spyware.
* CrossesTheLineTwice: Some of the ads (such as one ''solely consisting of a pair of breasts in a black lace bra'') are so incredibly sleazy that they become laughable.
* FetishRetardant: In a shoddy attempt to Photoshop bigger cleavage lines onto one ad, they managed to make the woman look like her breasts were pancakes.
* MemeticMutation:
** Ads featuring an attractive woman entreating "my Lord" are probably a nod to the game's ad campaign. Though given ''Evony''[='s=] bad press, ads tend to spoof their style rather than straight-up imitate it — ''VideoGame/PlantsVsZombies'' has an ad with a decaying zombie girl wearing a crown prompting you to "save your queen", while one for ''VideoGame/{{Alteil}}'' features a girl and boasts "She is actually in our game, my Lord!"
** ''VideoGame/AdventureQuestWorlds'': [[http://cf.geekdo-images.com/images/pic625099.jpg Pants, m'lord?]]
** The mobile version’s also-false advertising as a “pull the pin”-style puzzle game has also been subjected to this, with a few games popping up that actually offer the type of gameplay in question as a direct response.
* NoSuchThingAsBadPublicity: Could be argued that ''the'' reason this game was known ''at all'' was because of its infamous advertising, otherwise it probably wouldn't have a Website/TVTropes page either and would have ended up forgotten as a bad game with nothing that stands out about it.
* OvershadowedByControversy: The original incarnation of ''Evony'' was mostly known for its infamous advertising campaign, with promises of sexy women [[LadyNotAppearingInThisGame that ended up nowhere to be seen in the actual game]]. Accusations of promotion via spamming blogs and the game being spyware have also left people more interested in the controversies surrounding the game than the game itself.
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'''Readers are encouraged to avoid this game ''entirely.'' It is a spyware program in disguise.'''