Evony isn’t Fun and it certainly isn’t Free.

This game would only take a couple of people a few weeks to make even if they didn’t lift most of the graphics or the source code.
It doesn’t do anything special and some things like the User Inferface are so badly designed it will make you tear your hair out.
The gameplay and mechanics have been tweaked into helping you part with your money. It is possible to get to the end without spending a penny, but the majority of players wouldn’t have the patience.
They’ve put priority to adding features to make them more money, like vacation mode. Pay to NOT play. That sums up their development.

The pricing is outrageous, to put it into perspective, its like iTunes charging you $300 per track.
A typical full feature MMO charges a $15-20 subscription per month, so why are people spending $1000-$5000 on this game?
The $5 package deal probably had the most uptake since it appears to be a bargain. Once you’ve bought something, it makes the decision easier to then spend more to protect your “investment”.

I don’t have anything against micro-transaction games, if you’re getting value for money, but this isn’t one of them.

It just “feels” like a game that has aggressively gone out to get as many “punters” in the shortest amount of time, and fleece them before the bubble bursts.

They’re VERY protective of their fat cash cow. ca-ching!

I enjoy paying for games. I enjoy developers receiving money for creating an entertaining experience for me to enjoy. They deserve it for their hard work.

Evony is neither an enjoyable experience nor did its developers do any hard work besides reverse engineering a copyrighted game in China and repackaging it as their own - blatant infringement - and, of course, coming up with ways to dupe their players through misleading advertising and prices.

And to exonerate them with the broad strokes of “all developers steal” and “all companies exist to make money” shows a clear bias and misunderstanding of what constitutes IP theft and fair business practices. The game is a direct clone. Cloning and reselling an entire game is different than finding inspiration in a mechanic from another source.

Either you’re overreacting to my post’s comedic presentation or you’re underreacting to being fleeced by Chinese thieves. Regardless of which: you’re wrong.

if you like games like civilization series you like this game its just a fun game