The Australian studio Auran, the developers responsible for Fury, has announced that the action MMO will be shutting down. The game was released in October 16 of last year and failed to garner an audience.
Immediately after the release of the game, it moved to a free-to-play system, and following after Auran had to cut nearly all of its staff.
“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 :)”
– Tony Hilliam, Auran CEO
On a side note, I had a chance to play the open beta of Fury back in summer 2007 and I was immediately a naysayer of this title. Server lag issues, unbalanced classes, and overall hype (touted as a Guild Wars successor) killed the game for me.
