Originally Posted by
screwtype
Yeah, I heard it was hosted in China. They have updated their graphics but they still suck.
After advertising all over the net and taking people's money for a week, they suddenly announced that the game we had been playing was only a beta and thanked us all for participating. Then they renamed the game "Evony" and posted a stack of job ads for game developers of every stripe - including graphics designers, LOL. I guess after a week they had enough money to hire a few people.
People have complained about the pricing of the game, it truly is ridiculous, IIRC a 15-minute speedup on a building will set you back 50c for example. Unfortunately it seems many people paid lots of money before realizing how little they were getting, some people spent hundreds of dollars on upgrades in the first few days.
I really just posted on it because I've never played an online game before so it was a new experience for me. If anyone knows of some good free (or very cheap) online games, please let me know.