Only this time they’ve stolen Sony Online Entertainment’s figurehead for EverQuest II, Antonia Bayle, as their chesty lure. To add insult to injury, they’ve added in a charming blue halo around her breasts.
This has to be seen in its animated glory to be appreciated.
So, rabblerouser that I am – I captured the .swf file from the site and have uploaded it to my server to provide a stable, easily referenced version. 
Here you go:
The original source of the image was SOE’s Quest for Antonia campaign from a couple of years ago, as seen here. (Thanks to @g33kg0dd3ss for pointing that out!)
There’s also another Evony advertisement portraying a similarly flashy-breasted woman, but I don’t recognize who this might be.
It makes me think of a Second Life avatar. I do not know if this is someone on-grid who would be really pissed off to find out that Evony has decided that she needed the Mardi Gras Party Bra treatment.
Both of these were captured on Twitpic.com, and are served by ad.yieldmanager.com, as shown by the capture logs on my machine, and in screencaps of the original sources. (I left the ones in this post in as well so you could see relative file sizes side by side, establishing source/time/filenames of the originals.)
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The worst part? I can’t really understand anyone who would think adding a blinky element to a nice set of tits is attractive – even if you really like tits.
I mean, I like tits.
I do not, however, go out of my way to find radioactive or magical ones that could act as runway lights in a dark room.
Just sayin’.
Anyway, there you have it. Many thanks to @Kasul for catching this and giving us all something else to /boggle at Evony over.
You know, in case all the crap they’ve pulled with Bruce Everiss wasn’t enough to give you the opinion that someone involved with that whole messy “game” had quite possibly lost their minds.
Yep, I'm on Twitter. 
If you haven’t already, make sure you pass that on to the SOE people. Evony went after Bruce because he’s an easy target. I’d love to see Sony’s battalion of lawyers go after Evony.
Somehow, I think you, me, and most of the Internet would like to see that fight. It’s the ‘bully finally gets his ass-kicked’ mentality at play.
That said, I doubt even if they pursue it, that it will go past the cease-and-desist stage. SOE will slap Evony, LLC. with a C&D, Evony will grovel, the ad will disappear. All will go back to normal until someone catches Evony doing something else that can only be termed as stupid. Lather. Rinse. Repeat.
Evony have used other people’s images before and pulled them down whenever someone calls them on the source. If they said “no, this is ours, we intend to keep Antonia’s tits blinking proudly around the Internet!” then I’d see SOE as having grounds to take them outside and beat them like a rug, as my mom used to say.
From all I’ve gathered of Evony’s ‘use without permission and pull assets when called on it’ tactics, my money is that they’ll blame some fictitious advertising person, who will be attacked by a møøse while on holiday in Sweden and summarily sacked. Meanwhile they’ll be looking for the next set of tits they can exploit.
For the record, I did pass it along to someone at SOE, though.
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