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Date: 2009-07-11 01:03 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] broin.livejournal.com
Isn't it more 'How Exactly To Advertise On The Internet'?

Date: 2009-07-11 02:46 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] simont
Why thank you :-)

(On another note, in a purely literal sense, it isn't exactly the bottom they're racing to there...)

Date: 2009-07-11 03:18 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] blackmanxy.livejournal.com
I laughed when I saw that was about Civony. Those ads pop up on RPGnet all the time and have become the subject of a great deal of complaining and mockery. Though I hadn't seen the last one yet. Probably just as well that RPGnet is blocked at my work now; that last one is definitely not SFW.

Date: 2009-07-12 02:24 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] stillcarl.livejournal.com
What the Evony/Civony lot got wrong right from the start (going by the adverts) was that their game was just for boys. (That it's a Civ clone and not a RPG we'll ignore for now.) The second and third adverts might've saved them, except for the wording. Bodice-rippers have been a female market for yonks and so the female imagery's no particular turn-off (until advert 4), - it's just that the wording, aimed at 'My Lord', excludes females from the invite.

To make it clear, this also means I disagree with Coding Horror that the first advert was ok - it wasn't either. The thinking from the start is all so very pubescent boys - as if girls don't have fantasies of ruling their own worlds too.

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