Coding horror has archived the campaign as it evolved or rather devolved, from showing some knight and asking you to play to showing plain old boobage and asking you to play. Not only do Evony ads use the shotgun approach to targeting, this campaign has been hard to avoid as it pops up on anything from news sites to knitting sites, and it's impossible to remove from ones adsense. I've tried blocking them from appearing here on the grounds of good taste, but their landing URL changes more often than I get a cup of coffee. So the campaign was already annoying me when it only had a knight in it, then the princesses were trotted out, one with deeper cleavage than the other, then finally they cut out the whole illustration theme all together and went close-cropped on a set of lace clad boobies. It's almost as if the marketing department got sarcastic. Click you guys! C'mon! I'm not sure what annoys me the most about this campaign, the ugly, the boobs, or the fact that google adsense makes it nearly impossible to control what ads your sites serves despite their insistence of the opposite. Someone in the Metafilter thread "Halp your queens boobs mylord" had to pull out the "it's working because we're talking about it" card. Talking about Evony is not the objective, the objective is to get signups and people who play the game.
