Ebony Games
While millions of players online are trying Evony Free Forever, there are a small amount of niche players who chase ‘Ebony Games’. Ok, while some are confused and chase up the wrong term after hearing friends talk about Evony, others are genuinely chasing the ‘Evony Riddle Game’ – which has been around for a long time as a free browser game.
Why play a text based riddle game online when there are so many new free web based graphic games?
Also with Evony releasing their sequel with claims that – less grinding, less bullies and no more long drawn out build times – why would people want to play anything else?
Ok, just look at the gaming alternatives online at the moment? All free to start – the likes of the Kingory Game, The Wewaii Game, Travian Online and even the Grepolis Game.
All good quality games, with cool interfaces, easy to signup, login and play.
If players like what they see – then they can choose to grab some game coins and play for money. An ideal shareware style to gaming, but whats changing this style is the massive giant that is Facebook.
Why? How is Facebook changing web-gaming?
Well, through sheer number of users – facebook has the power to connect many millions of people with the game that is being advertised the most.
Just look at the success of mafia wars and even farmville. Both these games are basic text games, but are now enjoing many millions of gamers who are logging into facebook and playing these every single day.
Why? Because their friends are doing it.
Ok, lets go back to Evony. Why was evony so popular? Not just because of the huge advertising campaign – some even said that evony was a boring game. Then why did it become so popular? Because everyone was playing it.
Just look at the schools, this age group is the largest group of web gamers. They are bored, between classes and looking for a game they can easily play and challenge their friends. Half of the school signs up for evony, regardless of how good the web game is – the rest of the school kids will sign up just so they can be part of the fun too.
This is how games like evony become such huge smash hits and make mega dollars for their owners. The kids start playing at school, then they play at home, the game starts to go viral and the rest is history.
Grepolis might be the next game to follow this path. innogames have done a great job of getting the word out there into the gaming community and now they are getting massive signups to this game and it could soon rival that of evony free forever.
But going way back – what about ‘ebony games’. There will still always be people wanting to play the basic games, even online. From the most generic card games, to yahtzee and yes ebony riddle games – they will always still be played.
Long live Evony, the Ebony Games and everything else in between
