Excalibur Online, also known as a city building browser game with no download, is set in the medieval ages like Grepolis and Mythopolis regarding game genre. Players in the game will have to perform the repetitive tasks like build city level1, level 2, level3, level N…., and do research level 1, level 2, level … why so many levels? well the answer is “I need your money into my pocket.”

As a matter of fact, Chinese free to play browser games are pretty good in terms of its business model, but the problem is the publishers like Omniverse Games never seek an innovative way to make a new game, but explore to copy a successful game, which constitutes a tragedy for Chinese brand and Chinese Online game. They will not stay home to show shamed, but go global to throw Made-in-China into toss.

It seems Chinese Guys have already explored a way out to online game publishing, that is, they are not seeking to develop a Chinese martial arts mmo game, but attempt to bring and integrate European warring theme into Chinese gaming business model, which is evidenced by Nap Wars, the early copycat of Evony based on napoleon War, Caesary, the most horrible production of copy set in caesar ages, and Excalibur online, a doomed failure ridiculously set in medieval Britain.

Five factions in this game? “Britannia Prima”, “Britannia Secunda”, “Flavia Caesariensis”, “Maxima Caesariensis”, and “Avalon”. Surely and Indeed! In Three Kingdoms online, there are three factions, that is easy to understand the game mechanism.

A Plenty of units to train? Absolutely, the more the ingame units, the more you will have to invest your time and money. The more the units, the more heroes you will have to recruit. Why do you need to recruit heroes, because you need to spend your money to upgrade your characters and craft some useless virtual equipment that may be lost sooner or later. Who knows?

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Rule the country like the Roman dictator, or manage your country in a harmonous way? You decide whatever in caesary. Maximize the tax rate or minimize the tax rate so that to get along well with your people. Fight for freedom, or battle for power? deplop your troops and forward in the battlefild front.

Caesary turns out to be the most controversial online game when it comes to another browser game Evony, which is released in 2009 by Chinese guys. Here I should say, Caesary is an early product before Evony in China.

Caesary features:

1, Detailed combat animation playback – each battle can be animated, allowing you to analyze the battle results while tactical. As you view the battle, you can also enjoy the magnificent battle scenes.

2, Intense team battles system – you never fight alnow, you can call all the allies and friends attack a certain enemy territory.

3 Roman culture – you can experiece the Caesary roman architecture, science and technology, Roman legions, all aspects of arms special reference to the Roman time.

Yesterday, one of our active users confirmed to our community that Caesary, a Roman civilation-themed browser-based game yet with Chinese business model, is poised to enter North American market with the Kongregate gaming platform as Point of penetration.

What is browser game?

Well, actually browser game is playable at any web browser like Firefox, IE and etc. You do not need to spend a lot of time to download any client to play. The browser web game become popular dating back to the ages of Ogame.org and Travian.com.

However, in 2009, Evony is like a new and innovative force that just came into being spontaneously. Owing much to its beautifully crafted graphics, and perfectly structured user interface, Evony has attracted 10 Million players using a heavy ad campaign and facebook social network.

If there is a successor, there must be a follower in the back. There a great number of such followers along with the fashion, including Kingory, Casvian, Lords Online, Nap Wars, Empire Craft, Three Kingdoms Online, Heroes of Kung Fu, The Wars, Kung Fu Online, King and conqueror and many more. Of course, partly they made a lot money and doing well like Evony, and part of them failed and are doomed to death due to the great competitor. The most important thing is that they are just imitating things slavishly and losing its originality.

Hiplayers.com made a warning that

Like Evony, Nap War is money-rolling machine, especially the wheel of fortune, nothing more than a gambling machine. We are writing such article not for advertising this game, but warning those who don’t know the real condition and make a mistake taking gambling.

That the similarity among those games are made in China and published across the world. The game is not rated by Gaming Union, nor approved by any laws.

You may not know the fact that China has banned most of such games due to the gambling and false distribution. That is why they are seeking another way to hurt internet users.

Here I’d like to give a warning to players addictive in this game and internet users who have not been immersed themselves in the game.

The market is always selecting the superior and eliminating the inefficient. It has a very unique competitive advantage for online game if innovative developers are catching up on.

The top principle to make money is let users play happily and agreeably,

Did they work like this mechanism? or are they seeking to a new way to stand out? or they are just offering a game there and without a better service.

Let’s watch and see

MMO Web Browser Strategy Games (MMORTS) seems very popular these days, Especially in 2010. After collecting some popular online browser strategy games, I found all these are developed by Chinese companies. They are all free to play, and use micro-transaction. Actually, In China, you can get the source code and do a game yourself.

I listed 10 such games, hoping that these games give you some tips to make a game or at least you know what the game offers. The games are all like Evony, even War of Legends is also a Copycat powered by Jagex.

1, Caesary

Caesary Online is a great browser-based game which is completely free to play. Unlike Evony’s naked advertising, Caesary Online have a neat graphics and promotion

Caesary Online

1, War of Legends

War of Legends is a newly released strategy game based on flash technology, with Chinese characteristics. The game is published by UK’s largest browser-based game developer Jagex. Interesting enough, War of Legends is not developed by Jagex, but Shanghai-based UltiZen

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2, Evony

Actually, Evony has become a household word and thus Evony itself becomes the most popular game over the two years. The game is set in Medieval Ages, but that is not like German’s browser game, instead Evony does business

using Micro-transaction and have over 130 servers only In English Version,Although Evony is not the first browser game developed in China, but it is the first successful browser game exported to North America and Europe.

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3, Empire Craft

Empire Craft is not a good game, but it runs heavily advertising campaign, so the game in a short time attracts 100,000 active players. Empire Craft, to my mind, is Copycat of Evony upon Evony’s success exposure. Empire Craft is developed by Oak Pacific Games, which had long and “assiduously followed” the technologies  of the others.

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4, Three Kingdoms Online

Three Kingdoms Online is full of “hackneyed and stereotyped Features”, even you cannot understand what this game offers in you don’t know Chinese Cultures. However, if you have ever played any browser strategy game developed by China, you could possibly get started on the game quickly. What you need to do is create your account, select where you are born, Name your flag and build your city and base.

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5, Lords Online

Lords Online is powered and presented by IGG, which has a remarkable exposure thanks to its PR and Article Team. However, when we review a game, it means a game, bad or good. No any public relation involved.

Lords Online has numerous bugs: you will lose your treasure you toiled  day time,  Laborers caught in waiting status, Keep losing Hero Experience points – keep losing levels, Ranking bug, and much much more… How terrible!

They just changed the code sold byVendors at a Less expensive price and changed the graphics.

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6, The War

Not need to say anything, totally a backward product of China, but seems popular in North America.

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7 WW2 Warfare

WW2 Warfare is set in the Second  World War where you can select three forces to attack. The most important resources is Oil, which is a must to develop your city and train your troops. The game is released in early 2009. So far WW2 Warfare has 5 servers in total.

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8 TransForce

TransForce is an online browser strategy game based on the famous movie the TransFormers, but the developer playcomet independently crafted the game with Chinese characteristics, even you can experience the Hunt System, the wanted system, like Sleeve System in Heroes of Kung Fu. It is very fun.

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9Kingory

Kingory is a not bad game because In China, Kingory signals the beginning of Chinese browser game growth. Currently, Kingory has been licensed to several countries, even the South Korea-based Nexon also gained the license to publish this game.

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10 Nap War

Nap War is owned and operated by SOHO Union International Ltd (SOHO Union).

“Like Evony, Nap War is money-rolling machine, especially the wheel of fortune, nothing more than a gambling machine. We are writing such article not for advertising this game, but warning those who don’t know the real condition and make a mistake taking gambling.

That the similarity among those games are made in China and published across the world. The game is not rated by Gaming Union, nor approved by any laws.

You may not know the fact that China has banned most of such games due to the gambling and false distribution. That is why they are seeking another way to hurt internet users.”

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War of Legends online is a Chinese Browser strategy game or Real time strategy game set in multiplayer model.  The Chinese name of “War of Legends” is 封神无敌 (World of Feng Sheng) published in China on October 18, 2009, and the Vietnam’s beta version was released by Sgame.vn. Yesterday, we covered the English Version of “war of Legends” published bu Jagex, UK-based Browser Game Vanguard and Tycoon, and even the number of Runescape’s online players has been logged down in the Guinness Book of world records. Overnight, Jagex become a  third-party publisher of online browser mmorpg or MMORTS.

War of Legends is an adaptation from a Chinese famous novel Apotheosis of Heroes, or Canonization of Gods (Translated version)

War of Legends Background:

According to legend, The vast ancient China will be faced with a catastrophe upon each millennium. The storyline of War of Legends takes place in BC, between mid-1100, to coincide with the dawn of the millennium catastrophe.  In the Central Plains of China, the war between the Shang Dynasty and Zhou Dynasty was fiercely engaged for a prolonged time. This is war between the immortals and Taoists, the Monarch and officials of master and servant, the three religions (Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism) and the nine schools (Confucianism, Taoist, Astrologist, Legalist, Nominalist, Mohist, Diplomatist, Miscellanist and Agriculturist)  and even the ordinary people have been engaged in the surging tide of history.

—————-The Real Developer—————

Founded in 2005, UltiZen is one of China’s largest all-platform game art outsourcing partner and PC game developer.

Exactly, UltiZen is behind War of Legends and Jagex is only a third party that got a licensed franchise to publish in North America and European Countries.

However, with reference to the game background story, War of Legends is a brand-new browser game, and totally new to No-Chinese players. The problem is War of Legends in China has tons of copycats there. Over the past two years, we have seen Evony, TransForce, Empire Craft, Kingory, Three Kingdoms Online, Warrior Legends, Lords Online and much more—published in North America and Europe.

They are using micro-transaction to roll money from innocent players, even the game is set in the browser, is it safe for your personal data?

Well, let’s continue to talk about the similarity :

1, City-building model: Construct command post, tech search. Oh, wait,  I cannot imagine, in Ancient China, there is a university. How weird! It never makes sense.

2, producing resources: Food, Timber, Stone, and Copper, full of platitudes

3, Forming an Alliance, which is really a ridiculous translation. In China, during Shang and zhou Dynasty period, I have never heard of the term “Alliance”

4,Recruiting a legendary hero. (Later you will find your hero will be stuck on the campaign, No one can fix the bug )

5, Daily Task.

6, Virtual Items. (That is the game’s “essence”)， we call this Money-rolling Machine.

7, Go to war.

8, even the characters they are using in game plagiarized Three Kingdoms Period hero portrait. Really does not match with the history.

What is “TWar of Legends” about? I still don’t know. If it means to be a copycat  of a traditional Chinese browser MMORTS, then why did they introduce University in BC time,  ridiculous, funny, weird.  If it is a new browser MMORPG, then why did they copy all of these, No innovative, no original! Sheerly backward!

The whole game feels like a taut game of cat-and-mouse between players.

Are you ready for the most wanted browser game for 2010? You and over fifteen million other registered players are as well!

The folks at Evony are getting ready and preparing for the arrival of the highly anticipated Evony: Age II release. That’s right, it’s coming very soon! And because of this upcoming release, the guys behind Evony are creating the Super Servers on the classic Evony: Age I.

If you’re in servers s17-s23, you’re going to be merging together on a brand new server named SS1 with even higher capacity, space and hardware to accept even more players. It truly will be a battleground that doesn’t have equal, where you’ll be able to make even more friends and enjoy fantastic new battles and enemies to conquer.

Along with this breaking news, the developers also give players some tips:

1, Alliances will be closed. You’ll need to restart your alliance on SS1. Don’t worry, we’ll give you a Ritual of Pact free to get you up to speed. Just remember, someone might want your alliance name so you better get in first!

2, At first, your cities will be all over the server. Again, nothing to worry about. The Evony team will give you an advance teleporter for each city and allow you pick where you want to place them freely.

3, You won’t be able to log in and gain food, etc while the servers are being merged. Don’t worry! All cities will have 0 upkeep during this time.

4, So to recap, you’ll be getting advanced teleporters, ritual of pacts and a zero troop upkeep all for FREE!

5, These new Super Servers are truly top of the range with huge improvements over the Warlord merges. Don’t forget, if you have multiple accounts in s17-s23, you’ll need to pick which account is being transferred over!

6, There are a lot of new items in Evony Age 2 ranging from Heroes Gear & Attributes, Stratagem, Quest items.

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Caesary Online 100% Similar to Evony

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It seems like no matter where you look on the internet these days, the barely clothed buxom beauties of Evony are falling all over their Ads to get your attention. They want you, they need you, they are practically throwing their digital selves at you. Anything, as long as you click the link. Which will inevitably leads to….a free browser RTS? Wait, what? I mean…wow with the blatant bait and switch there Evony marketing guys. But hey, their team decided nothing sells better than a face full of cleavage and ran with it.

You can even type “Evony Ad Campaign” into your search engine of choice and pull up plenty of complaints from blue-balled teen boys everywhere frustrated that the promise of digital goods turn out to be a Civilization-type game.

Being neither male nor particularly interested in boobage, I let the ads slide with little notice beyond the initial WTF. After all, I’m grown up enough to realize sex sells and more power to them, right? Then around three in the morning one night, in a fit of sleep deprivation I assume, I decided to give it a whirl. After all, I’d played Ikarium and Maple Story and Travian. Why should I let the slant of the ad campaign keep me from trying this?

The answer: not a thing. While Evony may lure the unwary into its trap and trust me, there are plenty of “OMG WHERE R TEH B00BS?” scrolling in general chat, the game itself is a solid RTS.

The Premise:

A top down, browser based game, Evony asks you to build up your city through beginner quests that are extremely user friendly. Make your peasants happy with low taxes while working them to death to generate enough resources to amass an army. Use the technical trees to level up your walls, increase resource production, create advanced troops, expand your domain and generally cackle like the tyrant you are becoming. Make friends of a similar mindset and form alliances. Wage war with other alliances to pillage and burninate the countryside until the entire continent bows at your feet. Rejoice.

Good Ideas/Bad Ideas

Good Ideas

* Making the Game Free – Nothing pulls in the masses like a free game. I’m pretty sure if someone made a game where the point was to have your avatar sit in chair and click on the wall to dry paint, people would play it as long as they didn’t have to pay for it. If you’re active on your server, your little kingdom will always be there no matter how low you are on cash.

* Quests – Quests are the lifeblood of any long term game. Quests keep us coming back and they keep us from leaving until one more chain is complete. They give us a sense of accomplishment, tangible rewards in the form of loot and something to brag about to benchmark our success. Evony plays directly into this and exploits it shamelessly, going so far as to issue a Daily Quest that players can complete simply by LOGGING IN.

* Always On. Always Real Time. – In keeping with many free browser games, Evony never sleeps. When you log off, your minions keep plugging away, giving you a steady source of resources and gold. In other words, it’s low maintenance. At work? School? Sneak a peek for less than a minute to check your stats, assign a new technology research and a new upgrade and close the tab before anyone is the wiser. Going out of town for a week? Set your account to “Vacation” or let your alliance know to keep an eye out so you don’t come back to a burned out shell and some loser squatting in your keep.

Bad Ideas

* Free Is A Four Letter Word – Free doesn’t pay the bills or keep the servers running so Evonians (Evonese? Evonicans?) are constantly bombarded by in game pleas to use their hard earned money to buy resources or coins which can be exchanged for any number of temporary bonuses from reduced construction time to instant peasant loyalty increases. Which doesn’t seem so tempting until you’re one upgrade away from unlocking the next tier and you NEED fifty thousand lumber NOW.

* Evony Ad Campaign – The very campaign that gets a majority of the players interested is also a huge setback. Getting started can be daunting since the newbie chat is inundated with requests for a/s/l, cyber and and other denizens of the internet that haven’t quite grasped what Evony is all about. Finding anyone that is genuinely helpful can take a degree of patience that many just don’t have.

* Tick. Tock. Tick. Tock. – After the initial rush, figuring out the basics and finding decent human beings that actually want to play the game, Evony becomes an even BIGGER exercise in patience. If you’re looking for instant warfare and grudge filled feuds, move on my bloodthirsty friend. Because real time means..Real. Time. As in eventually upgrades can take upwards of two, three or eight hours. Which is fine if you’re busy but excruciating if, say, you keep tabbing over every five minutes to watch the seconds pass on by.

Conclusion:

All in all Evony is an entertaining free browser game with a user friendly interface, decent graphics and a loyal community (if you can hear them over the rabble). While the slow pace can be off-putting, if you’re looking for a low maintenance game with Civilization-esque elements you can’t do better than what these buxom ladies have to offer.

Lords online is more similar to Evony.

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While browsing something on the internet, I found most of Chinese browser games  were hitting North America and Europe. They all are seemingly like Evony.

It’s happened to Kingory, a really true Chinese Browser Game. Most of the time, I snapped the screenshots and uploaded them to Playbbg.com, hoping more and more players know the game.

In the era of Browser Game, being the big project on browser game market no longer means being the success of the company, and to make a heavy marketing for a browser game is to make a big success. For most of the honest and traditional browser game developers or publishers, they still remain focused on game development and simulating the membership or subscription model to create their products, that is why they failed to make tons of money that is to be used for marketing or advertising.

In China, those developers and publishers are very smart and are able to discern what they should do right.  Almost 100% browser games and MMORPG are created based on virtual items and free to play models. For instance, if you construct a building, it will take 2 minutes to complete constructing, but you can use a virtual item called Speedup or Booster to instantly complete such construction. There is out of the question you should pay for such virtual item. Chinese developers were developing tons of such virtual items by which they make money and inject part of such money into Google ADs.

Today, we collected some Chinese browser games that hit North America and Europe, if you are a developer, why not take a deep look at these games.

1, Caesary Online

Caesary follows in the footsteps of other popular online free-to-play Asian strategy games like Evony. Here, the theme is one of Roman conquest and the art design for your budding Empire reflects this. Other than the visual style and occasional animal sacrifice, Caesary plays like an Empire-building game from any other era.

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Evony

Evony is a Free online  browser based title like any other in the genre and you don’t need to download any client, just open your browser to play Evony for free. The game requires you to become a powerful Lord, with an overarching quest of saving some princess, or something. The game itself is so disjointed from the primary quest that it is somewhat of a grail, but no matter, browser games, unlike normal games rarely have a clear beginning and an end. The end inevitably comes when your wife leaves you and your pets are starving because the game has you in its icy grasp.

1, Kingory

Kingory has endless quests for you to complete, including Growth Quests, Routine Quests, Delegate Quests and Epic Quests ect. All sorts of rewards can be gained from completion of quests. Kinory is a browser web-based real-time battle simulation system and PvP & PvE Arena.

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2, Warrior Legends

Warrior Legends is a free real time strategy(RTS) browser game set in the Middle Ages. You are the lord of a city as you are born in a country and you will play with thousands of real players. You can select your birthplace in three countries—-Gallia, Lllyrium and Germania. In the world of WL online, your mission is to develop your nation and go in for expansion and finally rejuvenate the civilization of the Middle Ages. To complete your mission, you have to gather crop, lumber and iron which can be used to construct infrastructure, explore technology and recruit troops.

Warrior Legends is a free real time strategy(RTS) browser game set in the Middle Ages. You are the lord of a city as you are born in a country and you will play with thousands of real players. You can select your birthplace in three countries—-Gallia, Lllyrium and Germania. In the world of WL online, your mission is to develop your nation and go in for expansion and finally rejuvenate the civilization of the Middle Ages. To complete your mission, you have to gather crop, lumber and iron which can be used to construct infrastructure, explore technology and recruit troops.

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3， Empire Craft

Empire Craft is a browser-based game (Web-game) with RPG and business strategy, players can start the game immediately without installing any client or plug-ins. And even there is no requirement for the operating platform. With a computer connecting to internet, players can start the game on browser easily.

Empire Craft has the outstanding game system, including creature killing, player competing, chatting, city managing, battling, campaign, task, instance zone, worldwide incident, equipment, skill, team playing, friend, union, property, goods, and market etc.

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4, Kings of Nations

Kings of Nations is a browser based multi-player online game. In Kings of Nations, player selects one from two of the civilizations, either Eastern Civilization or Western Civilization and plays on a randomly created map. Players begin with one main city, Central Government and some necessary resources and fight against other kings or cultures until he/she finally remains in the world. In the Central Government player can build different constructions, and developing new technologies. Different constructions have different functions. Before you launch the war either against the real player or against the NPC city, make sure you city economy is healthy. You have to find a balance point between economic developments and enhance your military force. Once your reputation reached enough level, you can set up your own country and command your underlings to attack your enemies.

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5, Rise of Empire

Rise of Empire is a big web strategic role-playing game. Players start with small villages and try to develop into great empires eventually. Territory is the fundamental and critical issue in the game. Every building needs a certain amount of land to allocate. Also, as an emperor, you need a large amount of land to produce food to feed your increasing army and population. Not only by destroying enemy’s army, players also need to conquer enemy’s territory in order to win the war. Just like the realistic, in Rise of Empire, land is the most important resource for an empire. Empires are mostly fighting for protect or expand their territory. Troops are the tools help an empire to defense from enemies’ invade or conquer enemies’ land. In Rise of Empire, the land territory is divided into 3 different types: Plain, Mountain and Forest. Besides, water territory is another issue players need to consider. Each type of territory will have its specific usage and limit, which will bring players more fun.

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6,The Legacy of Holy Castle

The brand new massive multiplayer web-game, The Legacy of Holy Castle, is making its appearance. Differ from other common web-game, The Legacy of Holy Castle is based on fantasy warfare story background, and the game also processes a combination of RPG and SLG elements to bring the most astounding gaming experience to its players.

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7,Lord of the Evil

Lord of the Evil (also known as Lords of Evil) is a web based MMORPG that was released in open beta as of October 4th 2008. There are many interesting promotions for new players during this release! This game is developed by Chinese company and run only based in the US, being one of the only of its kind currently, with most other browser based games being hosted internationally. Lords of Evil runs on flash, and is loaded with simple, yet generic features. For example, you may pick from Human, Orc, or Demon as your race. Lords of Evil also features a nifty guild system and an auto levelling system, which allows your character to continue training while you are away.

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