#Evony commercial cast series#

They've spent years trying to shed this reputation, but now, two years later, they're going back to ads including a live actress instead of images from the game.

#Evony commercial cast series#

'We're well aware of the reputation of the old campaign, and there's no doubt Evony is still associated with it even though the series was officially discontinued over a year ago.' Bringing sexy back Some of those players, he said, are still playing now. It’s video game maker Top Games USA’s spot for Evony: The King’s Return. The most successful were ads our partners created featuring models, and based on that success, our partners created the now infamous series of ads.'Ĭerrato said that their numbers skyrocketed, blasting to 1 million quickly. At least as of Friday, when I went through all the commercials so far releasedyou can go to, and see them allthere was only one commercial that featured a prominent American Revolution or founder theme. 'We coordinated with a number of affiliate marketing partners on different types of ads. 'Of course any MMO game only shines when there are a large number of players on the battlefield, so our goal, like any other game, was to get as many people playing as possible,' he says.

Part of the reason it got those numbers was because of the controversial ads, according to Tony Cerrato, Marketing Officer at Evony. No matter what people call it, the indisputable fact is that it's been fairly successful – Evony's developers claim that the game has 27 million registered accounts in 167 countries around the world. Before the name was Evony it was Civony, and that's because it was (and still is) a game very much trying to emulate the Civilization franchise's success.