There is a brand new browser based MMORPG on the scene and it is breaking records for quickest uptake on a MMORPG (Browser Based).

The popularity of Evony Free Forever is not unfounded. Evony is a brilliant game. It is a Real Time Strategy game that sucks players in. Expanding from 1 servers to the now 33 servers the developers of Evony have had to continuously upgrade their servers to be able to cope with all of the role playing enthusiasts who are enjoying the masterful game of Evony.

With an average of 100,000 players online for each server the current 33 servers equates to over 3 million Evony Players worldwide!

RuneScape won a Guiness World Records entry by having the most players on a browser game, but Evony is set to smash the records as MMO gamers keep flocking to the game.

Evony has always called itself "Free Forever". But is it really? What is the real cost of playing Evony Online? Is it more expensive than other MMORPGs like World of Warcraft or Travian?

One of the reasons why I ask if Evony is Free Forever is that they keep advertising! I keep seeing Evony "Save the Queen" or "Save your lover" or some other new advertising campaign by UMGE to promote Evony and drive more players to the game. If they are spending all this money on advertising, surely they'd have to be taking MORE than this money from the players of the online game. Not to mention wages and server upgrades.

Most of the players I know have not spent any money in Evony buying Evony Cents. But there is a minority out there who have spent $100 or more on this game to enhance their gaming experience. Evony Cents could be used to speed up production or research, or to buy spins on the magic wheel. This is gambling! You buy spins at a set amount, then spin the wheel to see what you can get. Most times it won't be worth the Evony cents you paid, other times it will be worth a lot more than what you paid, but it is a gamble, a risk! And if there is 5 people that I know who have paid over $100 on evony cents, then there must be hundreds or thousands of players I don't know who have spent money on it. And what scares me the most is that people might be spending more than $100. Are there people out there spending hundreds or thousands of US$ to buy thousands of Evony Cents?

How many people have spent money Playing Evony Free Forever?

UMGE must be making a lot of money from Evony. The Evony ad campagins are still raging on drawing more people into playing Evony. To cope with the demand UMGE has added more and more servers on. Now with a total of 32 servers with a possible player numbers of over 3 million.

The developers at UMGE have done an increadible job of creating an addictive game that online gamers want to play. With the Real Time Strategy component of waiting while a building is being built or while an attack is taking place. This has meant that players will be watching the time tick down on the buildings and waiting to come back to add another upgrade, or do another attack.

This game structure has made Evony available to play by professionals working full time, as they can play during their breaks, kick off another building or attack. And then go back to evony login during lunch to see how their attack went and make another.

This also helps UMGE get gamers paying money to play the game. Gamers that are frustrated with the long wait times for buildings can buy some Evony Cents to upgrade faster, or train troops faster, or buy the item they've been looking for so they can have more castles undeir their dominion. This is a great design for a MMORPG in this day and age. This has made Evony less of a kids game, and more into the realms of older players and women players too.

It seems there are a few people out there that don't like the "Free Forever" part of Evony.  Here is another one on weebly.

I still can't get over how much money the Evony game developers are making from the game as the ads are still out there, and in game they are pushing more and more for people to spend money.  With incentives that if you spend $30 you get some big bonuses, but who wants to spend $30 on a free game?

The Evony developers are still trying to squeeze as much money out of players before they realise the game Evony does not have any substance.

They're doing this by sending players in-game mails telling what promotions they're putting on now.  It sounds like a rug store to me.  Ever seen a rug store that wasn't having a sale?  I haven't.  So they're putting on sales, and tricks to get players to spend their hard earned money on buying in-game items.

Evony are purposefully keeping the items hard to ge, like Michelangelo's Script.  The hardest item to get in the game, it might have a random drop rate of 1 in 5,000 attacks.  So to actually get enough to fully deck out even just 1 of your castles, would take more time spent in game than I'd care to imagine.  So this is a beautiful bait to dangle in front of people in the hope they will open their wallets to buy some Evony cents to buy a Michelangelo's Script.  Not me.

Theres a new exclusive Evony game called iEvony.  iEvony is by invite only.  If you need an invite or have one to share go to the iEvony page on the Evony Free Forever site.

This new game inside Evony is invite only and has great ways of getting "free" evony cents.  This is by inviting more people to join and other ways.  Amazing in game rewards are promised, and as yet the developers at UMGE have not thought up what these rewards are going to be.

The fact that iEvony is a beta means that the Evony developers are going to use iEvony as a test server.  It will test the latest patches before going out to the wide Evony community.  This also means that there will be a lot of updates coming, both visual updates and arithmetic or fighting numbres updates.  So whatever strategy you are using now could change very soon.  The people on the iEvony servers will be the first to know about the upcoming changes, and will get an edge on the rest of the Evony community.