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Fury Shut Down for Good

Post by trog @ 07:46pm 05/08/08 | 22 Comments

Auran have announced that their MMO Fury is shutting down 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.

To all those players who have enjoyed Fury and played countless battles, I am sorry that we could not find a viable business model that would allow you to continue playing. To all those naysayers and doomsdayers, we know that deep down you wanted Fury to succeed. Have fun with your parting wishes :)

No doubt this does not come as a surprise to anyone that has been following Fury's lifespan (or, from the sounds of things, anyone that played the game), but it's still sad to see an Australian-made game crash and burn.

fury auran

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TicMan
Posted 07:59pm 05/8/08

Damn that blows.. not because of Fury but because an aussie developer couldn't crack it.

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Midda
Posted 08:05pm 05/8/08

Everyone I've talked to from Auran said they saw it coming, because design had no idea what they were doing. The game dying isn't what I think is a shame, the fact that an entire company went under because of it is the real shame here.

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Crizane Tribal
Posted 08:08pm 05/8/08

As already said, it sucks to see Aussies giving a go and not making it. IMO they should have qualified for some sort of government arts grant.

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mutombo55
Posted 08:20pm 05/8/08

I may be mistaken, but I think Auran actually did get some sort of Government grant many years ago when they were developing some sort of game dev engine, Auran Jet I think it was called.

Guess it didnt get far, not much in the mighty wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auran_Jet

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exo
Posted 08:44pm 05/8/08

I remember being at the press event for the Launch of this game...now I feel bad for swilling their free booze and eating their free food when I wasn't really invited :/

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nF
Posted 08:50pm 05/8/08

Fury - PC
Avg Ratio: 52%

Don't suppose that had anything to do with it?

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Articuz"
Posted 09:25pm 05/8/08

did anyone actually play fury???
was it really that bad?

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Sover
Posted 10:06pm 05/8/08

Fury was ok nothing spectacular, just make a character and go nuts in PvP was pretty fun for when the WoW servers were down and it was free.

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Midda
Posted 10:28pm 05/8/08

did anyone actually play fury???
was it really that bad?

I played it a little. I didn't think it was 'bad', just boring.

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Lithium
Posted 11:48pm 05/8/08

http://www.auran.com/

Perhaps Auran could have spent more time on Fury other then making multiple train games?

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HERMITech
Posted 02:14am 06/8/08

The original Dark Reign was where it was at.

After that, didn't personally find much joy in any of their sequels / new content/games.

:(

Harsh for the peeps who loose out from this decision.

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trog
Posted 09:31am 06/8/08

After that, didn't personally find much joy in any of their sequels / new content/games.

Pretty sure the only thing they made after Dark Reign was Trainz (until Fury). DR2 was produced internally by Activision, not Auran.

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Hyperslide
Posted 09:59am 06/8/08

LOL Ok train simulators ... well that's gonna sell well on the market ...

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TicMan
Posted 10:09am 06/8/08

LOL Ok train simulators ... well that's gonna sell well on the market ...

Clearly it did sell well otherwise they would've closed up shop years ago instead of after dumping all their money into an MMO that wasn't going anywhere.

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giririsss
Posted 10:17am 06/8/08

I believe Trainz was a huge hit and a big profit maker. You'd be surprised how much money those "sim family friendly title" games bring in.

Sucks for auran and aussie game devs.

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Jim
Posted 11:10am 06/8/08

I liked dark reign

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d0mino
Posted 11:22am 06/8/08

At least it was shut down for good and not evil.

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Raider
Posted 12:50pm 06/8/08

Fury was a bit boring, but considering it was pretty much 2 guys that did all the design ideas and didn't take much advice from other people, you'd wonder why it wasn't more successful!

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Jim
Posted 01:52pm 06/8/08

At least it was shut down for good and not evil.

hahaha

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Kimbo
Posted 04:04am 07/8/08

If they're shutting down the game servers maybe they can give away the server software for it now.

My brother bought it for me and I thought it was all right especially considering it was Australian made.

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