The creators of an online fantasy world went to federal court today to demand $825,000, plus fees, from a Mt. Lebanon man who has eked out a living selling game-playing aids.
Philip James Holland, 23, was late for court, dressed in sweats, and legally outgunned today by Boston attorneys sent by New York-based Evony LLC and Regan Mercantile LLC. Those two firms created Evony, an online empire-building game that's free to play but that makes revenue selling short-cuts toward developing towns and armies.
Mr. Holland, in turn, created Xandium Studios, which, at the very least, sells a map of the vast online world that an estimated 2 million Evony players have developed. Evony has accused him of also offering programs called "bots" that automatically play the game, and a copycat alternative to their world.
Evony is once again back in the media spotlight with its recent Superbowl TV ad, and credit where credit is due with it's big production values and A list celebrities they crafted a very impressive and epic piece of advertising. With stars like Jeffrey Dean Morgan (The Walking Dead), Aaron Eckhart (The Dark Knight Returns), Fan Bingbing (X-Men: Days Of Future Past) bringing recognisable faces to the campaign. With the average $5 million price tag just for a 30 second ad during the Superbowl and the multi million dollar production which is planned to span a further 11 episodes throughout the year, the developers Top Games US are certainly putting their all into "The Battle of Evony" ad campaign.
In June 2016; the Evony Gaming Company's official website was hacked resulting in the theft of data for more than 33 Million registered user accounts.
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LOL @ that photo. Why would anyone play something that reeks of low quality.
hahahahahahahahaha cough
So basically the scammers got scammed .
Wait so this is the Evony game that blitzed the online websites trying to use scantily clad woman to promote a game that was not all that good? Go modder.
I dunno what's worse, Ebony creators suing this person, or the fact that people need bots to play the game. XD