It's happening.

I was hoping it would just be little things, but what happened to so many other flash game sites is happening to Kong. It’s becoming commercial. It seems every time I come on here there’s a new event advertising a new product.

Yes…so Kongregate can earn more money to make this site a better place :D

Personally I have no problem with Kongregate making new opportunities for players and developers alike.

A little extra money never hurt. Well until ya know. They get power hungry. >_>

I find they are going a little overboard with advertisement-based challenges, but in the forums it is fine. WE WANT EVONY BACK!

Originally posted by sportsmaster19:

I find they are going a little overboard with advertisement-based challenges, but in the forums it is fine. WE WANT EVONY BACK!

Wat.

Originally posted by sportsmaster19:

I find they are going a little overboard with advertisement-based challenges, but in the forums it is fine. WE WANT EVONY BACK!

They also do this to be able to afford to give YOU free products and raffles. You can opt out of all of these events if you wish. Advertising is inevitable. Kongregate needs to make money somehow.

This explains everything.

Originally posted by ParalysisTerror:

This explains everything.

And before that there was this.

Dammit, I missed that. >_>

It’s happening…
…Kongregate is making money with big advertisements so they can get more money and make the site better while providing us with fun stuff to do.
IT’S OUTRAGEOUS!

Originally posted by sportsmaster19:

I find they are going a little overboard with advertisement-based challenges, but in the forums it is fine. WE WANT EVONY BACK!

Your wish has been granted.

O.o

On this one website, i found this

Lee
I am a student studying computer games design at uni and decided to investigate Evony.com.
Just to see what some of these games are like etc. etc.
The game is actually kind of cool (found myself addicted and even spent a little money on it).
But I started to notice HUGE bandwidth use by the site as I played.
I am not the only one either, there are comments on the evony forums about this.
This is odd because all of the client info, the animations etc. are all downloaded in one big download at the start.
There is no streaming media so I began to wonder what was going on.

To cut a long story short I decided to break the law and reverse engineer Evony’s client.
Not to cheat. Not to rip them off or even to use even a scrap of the code.
But just to poke about a bit and find out what was going on, maybe even offer them some ways to improve things.

Aside from the fact that the whole thing is very poorly constructed (it is really very beginner coder level stuff. Reminds me of a lot of
what the first year students produce for assignments) it contained some very interesting information.

Included with the client are 2 peices of tracking software that monitor your web use and which applications you have open while the client is running.
These do not install independently on the machine though due to the limitations of flash and do not actually damage anything.
But they harvest massive volumes of information. My firewall was blocking a lot of outgoing transmissions and it turns out that these
were the data trying to be sent out. So they know nothing about me. lol.
However there is a LOT of data coming IN over the ports the client uses. In otherwords it is downloading something into my cache for use later.
I have bandiwdth restriction which slows these types of tricks down and I completely clear my cache every couple of hours if I am heavily using the net.

I also noticed that all the varanbles etc. are named Civony still and that there are multiple references to UMGE.
Even a couple of folders are simply called UMGE, one of these folders contains one of the spyware programs.
So I can only guess at where the data would end up if I didnt have a good firewall.

There are also commented out sections in the code which contain references to UMGE and Lam himself, though low on details.

Thank you for reading this.

Lee

Don’t play that game.

So a guy did something illegal and found something illegal?

I just saw an Evony ad on the top after I’ve arrived to this thread. I thought they got rid of them….

Great idea! Let’s stop Kongregate from getting the one thing that’s keeping it running!

…There are also commented out sections in the code…

Lol’d.

Comments aren’t compiled into the actual software, there’s no way to get them by reverse-engineering the final image.

are you actually being serious about that evony thing because i play it everyday and it doesnt seem that anything has happened while ive been playing it