Oh God. Thanks to the forum, I’m advert-blogging. Which can only mean one of two things: i) Post-Darkfall review I’ve totally lost it or ii) it’s an awesome advert that needs immortalisation. Or maybe both. Anyway, Plants Versus Zombies has a new ad-campaign. It’s been seen over at the Penny Arcade – maybe they did it? If so, well done you, Mr Penny and Mr Arcade – and is well worth nosing at. And it’s under the cut because it’s too long to go above it.
Of course, this joke won’t make to sense to anyone with an adblocker on. But if you’ve got an adblocker you’re a bally parasite, so who cares?
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That advert is sexist. Women like her should be recognised not just for their body, but also for their brains.
BRRRRRRRAAAAAINS.
KG
Kudos to PopCap, also kudos to Opera’s selective integrated adblocker for allowing me to leave all the really dirty ads.
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I don’t get it.
What’s this ‘Evony’ malarkey all about then?
It’s a casual play-it-and-leave-it web strat/MMO. Its ads have become the latest omnipresent X10/True/etc., while following this progression.
There are titties on our lawn,
Wedon’t want titties on our lawn.
(wait wut?)
@Alex
I was using Firefox with no script and ad blocker, and at the time I was running Nod32 2.8 I think, it got through all of that because I white listed websites that I wanted to support.
So yeah as has been said new hacks with no signatures known and HIPS didn’t catch it…
There’s not much more I could have done to protect my PC, Nod32, Firefox(+no script), Spybot S&D, sitting behind Comodo firewall (mainly for outgoing control) and a Hardware firewall built into the router.
The infection didn’t do any harm and I got rid of it easily enough, but fool me once…
Now I’ll never white-list any kind of external ad-service.
I’ve went ahead and subscribed to RPS, I’d rather part with a couple bucks to support the site than have my laptop burn a hole through my desk running animated flash ads.
From various readings around, I’m pretty convinced that Evony could be hard-core malware. As in, keyloggers and trojans and other doohickeys to steal your money. They’ve already stolen content from Age of Empires and Civ games, so why NOT rip off their customers?
Supposedly Evony is also owned by a company associated with a major Chinese goldfarming organization, and such organizations have been known to hack into accounts on WoW and the like and steal everything of worth.
Now they want you to install IEvony, which merely downloads all your contact lists from instant messengers, Skype, etcetera and sends them invitations, which you then get credited for in-game. … And that’s just the features of the program that they will tell you about, a program you download and install, made by a company that steals most of its ads, content, and then has the gall to collect people’s credit card numbers so they can buy any manner of in-game item.
Stay the f**k away from that company!
The Popcap ads are amazing, and they deserve infinity-billion sales for it. I picked up Plants vs Zombies for its recent pricebreak on Steam, it’s a very polished doohickey that keeps mixing up the gameplay just often enough to make things interesting.
Now if only that zombie queen ad could be more ubiquitous than the google-spammed Evony ads ..
That is the best thing ever