The Evony Trap

Apparently, there's some pretty insidious stuff going on with Evony (you know, that MMORTS whose ads include only great, heaving chests scantily clad in lingerie?). Especially now that there's something called iEvony coming out...

I'll let Ark's Ark explain:

http://www.arksark.org/blog/2009/07/05/evony-a-patchwork-of-stolen-parts/

One thing I didn't know was that Evony comes from China. Where they don't care too much about international copyright laws, I guess.
The effect of this: Evony's creators steal (or at least they did, up until very recently) all their avatars and in game graphics from games like Civilization and Age of Empires.

I'm a big fan of AoE. Not cool, guys.
If even half of this is true, I suggest staying away from Evony. There are plenty of free browser strategy games.