Fury Game Servers to Shut Down in the Next 48 Hours

Fury, the PvP focused MMORPG from Australian game developer Auran, has had some issues for a while now but today it looks as if the hard times they were having have come to a dramtic but not wholey unexpected end.

Over on the official forums, a post was made by Bossman (Auran Staff Member), which I have posted bleow:

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.

To the Auran team, who put their heart and soul into making Fury, thanks for your efforts. As I said many times before, we need to be much better than the competition to have a chance of succeeding. We gave it everything we had and history now judges that it still wasn’t good enough.

Whilst this marks the end of the Fury chapter, who knows what the future may bring. There were many gems hidden within Fury and many lessons learned. Hopefully one day the full potential can be realized in some other form.

So for now, so long and thanks for all the fish.

P.S. We informed all stores more than a month ago to remove stock from their shelves. If you have purchased a copy of Fury in the past month, we suggest you return it to the store.

P.P.S. This website will also close down in 48 hours

You may recall that back in December 2007, Auran laid-off several employees and filed for a chapter 11 bankruptcy despite heavy launch sales of Fury. Many gamers who played Fury believe that the game failed when Auran releasesd the expansion “Age of the Chosen” - various opinions state that the game became “dumbed down” afterwards.

Whatever the cause for Auran shutting down along with the subsequent death of Fury, we wish all the former employees the best of luck and we hope gamers who stuck with Fury through thick and thin find something else to enjoy very soon.