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Daniel Golding
06 Aug, 2008

Fury closes its doors

PC News | The end of the line.
It's been a long and hard road for Fury, the Australian-made MMO. Released late last year, the game was well received but soon struggled to find its feet in the crowded MMO market. Rumours of financial trouble at Auran, developer of Fury, began to circulate, and soon were realised as Auran moved into liquidation in December.

Despite this, Fury has been soldiering on in the intervening months, with rewards for those who stuck with the game. Until now. A post on the official Fury forums indicates that Fury will now close its doors for good.

"We have reached our time limit to find a solution that would help us keep the Fury servers open. Sadly, no solution has been found and so we have no alternative than to shut the servers down in 48 hours," the post reads. It also continues to thank the players and the Auran team, and notes that the "naysayers and doomsdayers, we know that deep down you wanted Fury to succeed."

The post ends with the advice that the Fury servers and website will shut down in 48 hours, which by our estimates makes today the last full day of Fury left. The post also advises players who purchased Fury in the last month to return it to the store of purchase.

Thanks to forum member Mipac for the tip.

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12 Comments
4 years ago
Damn, that really sucks that one of the only Australian MMO's didn't even last a year. You gotta feel sorry for them.
4 years ago
Sambo110 wrote
Damn, that really sucks that one of the only Australian MMO's didn't even last a year. You gotta feel sorry for them.
yeap. i never cared about the game, and to this day i still dont.. but they are aussies working in an overcrowded genre.
4 years ago
Pff. I don't care! My copy never arrived! icon_razz.gif
4 years ago
sucks for them.

but for me, well they never replied to my tech support query, so i couldn't even get the game running. nfi what it was even like.
4 years ago
Damn shame. I actually really wanted to give it a go and the 1000 copies they gave away, mine never arrived icon_sad.gif.
4 years ago
I got a copy, but to be honest I'm not surprised it didn't make it - while I definitely wished it was a successful game, it was unfortunately not up to market standards. icon_confused.gif

That said, I'm sure that there is plenty of potential in the Australian Gaming Industry, and hopefully the Auran employees will be able to use their experience to help grow other studios here. It's a well-known fact that experience in making games matters alot more than whether or not the game succeeds when it comes to employment, so with any luck they will find somewhere to go (just don't take my spot!).
4 years ago
They should give out the code so people can run private servers IMO
4 years ago
Should of never received the 7 it got from PALGN IMO. It had so many problems from a technical and marketing viewpoint; it was sub-standard game that should of never went the MMO route in its current state.
4 years ago
It seems Auran placed too much money into marketing and not enough into quality control.. are they really surprised at the outcome?

You can only hype a subpar product for so long before people begin to turn away..
4 years ago
I couldn't get my copy to work. Kept saying I needed a new key or something... I forget. I looked around online, anyway, and I remember a few other people had the same problem.

Good thing I got my copy from you guys. Feel sorry for any sod who actually bought it.
4 years ago
I was stupid enough to pay $80 for this when it first came out.

Oh well.
4 years ago
And I bet EB will keep selling it for the next year.
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Australian Release Date:
  17/10/2007 (Confirmed)
Standard Retail Price:
  $49.95 AU
Publisher:
  Auran
Genre:
  MMOG
Year Made:
  2007
System Requirements:
Windows XP
512Gb RAM
Pentium 4, 2GHz
NVIDIA GeForce 4Ti or ATI Radeon 9600
128Mb VRAM

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