This is very interesting. Games like Runescape, Habbo, Free Realms, Maple Story etc each employ many dozens of people, even hundreds. To administer and develop a game with millions of players takes a lot of work. Yet there is no address for Evony, no building or location full of Evony staff. Not that I can find. Not in the West.
A clue to their staffing requirements is their own advert from back in April for 16 different job titles (and payment partially with in game credits!), some of which they needed multiple people for.
Benefits:
- Specialists will receive competitive compensation, according to their skill set, at an hourly pay rate.
- Specialists will also receive in-game credit for their work.
Specialists Needed:Game Design Specialist
Graphics Designer -3D and UI.
We want to continue to improve Evony’s graphics and user interface. We need specialists with skills in one or more of the following: 3D architecture, short movies/animations and Flash-based user interface design.
Game Music and Sound
We will be adding music and sound effects to Evony and need specialists with experience creating music and sound.Game Design, Planning and Rules
We are adding a great deal of new content into Evony ?Age Two, including thousands of famous historical figures and cities, equipment systems and PvP and PvE battleground instance systems. We need developers and planners to create avatars, provide historical information and expertise, as well as background data to keep the game both accurate and immersive.
Game Economists and Data Analysts
A properly balanced and tuned economy and data system is of key importance to the long-term success of the game. Professionals with experience in this field would help adjust finances and other data to promote a robust economy and game structure.
Web Design
We need an accomplished web designer with knowledge of Javascript, Flash and CSS to improve and maintain the official website. Experience with Google Website Optimizer is a plus.
Promotion Team
Web Ad Design
We want to draw more users to Evony with ads. We need excellent ads to generate more impressions and higher CTRs and conversion rates. Candidates should be experienced, creative and enthusiastic.
Advertising Networks
We want to advertise through as many channels as possible, including rich media advertising networks. We are looking for people with connections to such networks to get our ads as much visibility as possible.
Player Promotion
We would like to not only promote Evony ourselves through advertisements, but find creative ways of encouraging our players to promote it as well, to their friends. We are looking for a qualified candidate with a solid understanding of both the game and internet social networking to generate and manage player promotion programs.
Technical Team
Email Architecture
We presently send users a welcome email and password recovery feature via email, but we would like to expand this by giving users the option of receiving emails for certain in-game events such as being attacked. We also need to correct problems in the current system which prevent some users from receiving email. A specialist in this field should have ideas and solutions for these types of issues.
Payment Processing
We want to expand payment options to include receiving payments through mobile SMS, phone billing, credit cards and other methods to meet customer demand, and we need a specialist with experience in this field.
IDC and CDN Experts
We are continuing to add new servers and upgrade bandwidth to improve the player’s experience and need experts in the field to recommend and coordinate these centers and networks.
Community Team
Community Liaison
We need customer-oriented individuals with strong communication skills to act as representatives to the Evony community. With strong community bases in the US, Europe and Australia, we would like community managers to represent our interests in each of these areas. We presently need liaisons for Europe and Australia.
Duties include: interacting with the community on behalf the developers, carrying concerns from the community to developers and helping to address player questions and concerns.
Forum Moderator
We need customer-oriented individuals with strong communication skills to moderate the community forums. Moderators should be conscientious and professional with an understanding of game forums. A mod’s job is to steer discussion away from harmful/destructive topics while fostering useful, helpful and informative topics.
In-game Moderator
We need customer-oriented individuals with good attention to detail to foster a healthy and productive in-game environment. Specialists would moderate in-game chat as necessary, as well as generate plans and methods to best encourage a positive environment for Evony players.
Wiki & Answers Administrator
We need an experienced, professional, customer-oriented individual with strong communication skills to oversee and assist the customer service team, ensure quality customer service and address customer service issues as they arise.
We need to an expert to set up and administer a Wiki/Answers system. The goal of this individual would be to encourage its use and make it as helpful as possible to users.
Customer Service Supervisor
English-Language Specialists
We need individuals with very strong English language skills and an in-depth understanding of the game to help correct language flaws and increase the usefulness of tooltips and language within the game and website. Candidates should exhibit strong written communication skills and a careful eye for detail.
This gives some idea of the range of skills need to run a global browser MMO.
So how many people do you think work for Evony and where do you think that they are?









