Auran Games Offers $2 Million Prize for Fury Challenge

Auran Games is serious about proving to players they have the lead PvP MMO online. Serious enough to offer a $2 million prize pool for players competing in the open beta for FURY. The “Fury Challenge started Sept. 14 and runs through the weekend of October 7.

“We want to put players on notice that FURY is serious fun and we have set our goal at nothing less than being the Number one PvP game in the world,” said Tony Hilliam, Auran CEO and Executive Producer on FURY. “By putting together over $2M in prizes for our Open Beta event, I think we’ve started to show that we’re already a contender for the title.”

“In a market where the big names and big publishers get most of the attention, we figured we had to do something a bit different to be noticed,” said Brian Cooke, Auran Director of Marketing. “Fury is a competitive game, and so putting together this amazing prize pool for our players should start to turn a few heads in our direction. From there, we’re confident our game will keep them excited.”

“During Fury Challenge we’re capping player Ranks at an easily obtainable level,” said Adam Carpenter, Fury Creative Director. “Since this is an Open Beta event, it is critical that new players become competitive quickly while avoiding the complexities that a max level, fully unlocked character would bring. This ensures the Challenge is all about player skill and teamwork, not time played, and this is what Fury’s gameplay and design is all about.”

The Fury Challenge is a ladder based competition. Players compete in 3 different game types either solo or as part of a Clan. The first two weekends are practice runs (Sept 14-16 and Sept 21-23) and the Ladders will be reset in preparation for the two competition weekends (Sept 28-30 and Oct 5-7). Interested players can either download the client from the Fury Challenge website, one of Fury’s sponsors or pick up a pre-order disk from participating retailers.

Retailers contributing to the prize pool include Dell, Nvidia, Logitech, Ideazon, IGN/Fileplanet, GameStop, Gamerail, Harvey Norman, Bigpond, FHM, and CybershotsZ. Auran will be giving away PC’s, graphics cards, keyboards, subscriptions, vouchers, FURY Gamecards and even a years’ supply of energy drinks. Some prizes are available for regional winners only.

“GameStop is proud to sponsor the Fury Challenge with great prizes,” said John Brittell, GameStop’s Vice President of E-commerce and Direct Marketing. “We encourage everyone to take the challenge and also pre-order at GameStop to receive extra play time in the beta and an exclusive armor set for the final game.”

via MMORPG.com