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Fury: 10 Day Free Trial
Szark
News ManagerMember Posts: 4,420
Auran has announced that because of popular demand, they are now offering a 10 day free trial for their PvP action MMO, Fury.
We've had a lot of requests for a free trial, and previously we've said we were planning to have a free trial available for Fury. Starting today, those plans are now a reality! If you don't yet have an account, or want to see if your friends will join you in-game, you can obtain a 10 Day FURY Free Trial account by visiting http://www.unleashthefury.com/freetrial/.
Grab a key, create an account and play as much as you like for the next 10 days. You can then choose to upgrade your Trial Account by purchasing the full game from a retail store or online at http://www.auran.com/auran/shop.htm.
We have also re-enabled all inactive Fury Challenge and beta accounts for 10 days. (Note: you may need to change the password on your account).
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Read more here.
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Due to popular demand? More like "complete lack of demand"... Games typically don't offer a free trial during the first month of their release unless they're struggling to stay afloat. Hopefully this one sinks like a stone...
LMAO.... Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't this game just come out in October and now they are giving away free trials? And I thought Turbine was quick to pull the Free Trial gig with LoTRO. Goodness...
I guess this begs the question, will Fury be around when WAR and/or AoC release in 2008?
Fear not fanbois, we are not trolls, let's take off your tin foil hat and learn what VAPORWARE is:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaporware
"Vaporware is a term used to describe a software or hardware product that is announced by a developer well in advance of release, but which then fails to emerge after having well exceeded the period of development time that was initially claimed or would normally be expected for the development cycle of a similar product."
While what you say might be true, why hopeful that it sinks like a stone? If may not be what you're interested in but to other people, this game might be great. Its just shameful that there are people hard at work to provide us with entertainment and all someone can say is that they hope the game sinks like a stone.
I'm downloading the client right now mostly because I am sick to death of slow PvE combat. I think LotRO or AoC will be the last level based with RPG turn based combat MMO I'll ever play. I'm really looking for more twitch in my combat. And while I have no idea what to expect with Fury, I'm willing to try anything at this point.
Hell, I'm even playing Dungeon Runners right now just for some fast combat! I don't have to shoot a wolf with 5-10 arrows before it goes down. One or two swings, move on to the next target. Now that is fun!
Currently playing: No MMOs. They all suck.
Free trials aren't always a sign that a game is not succeeding. Turbine did it and LotRO was never in trouble. I think it is quite healthy and a sign of change in the MMO industry that these games will be released with a trial right away or be released F2P. The Asian market is certainly understanding that releasing trials for games is the one of the best routes to take in terms of gathering customers.
Fury is an unknown game made by an unknown company. I am certainly not willing to spend $50 without first trying it. I refuse to buy any MMO without first trying it. So I'm glad there is a free trial of Fury. In the end, it'll make a me a more informed consumer because I'm actually taking the time to try it out rather than coming to forums to talk trash.
No MMO has been put to death because of another MMO. So why even think Fury will die with the release of WAR or AoC? Besides Fury is different from those games. How silly to even think that!
Currently playing: No MMOs. They all suck.
Instead of bashing the game, why not try it. It uses the guild wars model, buy the box and play when you want. I understand there is some pretty good pvp action.
I have to agree with this being a good thing. I'm downloading now for a try out because of it. Otherwise, I would have just passed it up. I'm not going to buy a box for trial purposes. I have to wonder how much cash I wasted doing that. Look at the FPS genre and the expectancy of a demo release. Why should this be any different?
I agree with what you are saying. I did not mean to suggest that I feel the game sucks or should die by the time WAR or AoC comes. For the record, at least Fury got out and that is more than I can say for WAR or AoC.
I'm looking at it from a retailers perspective. Gamestop asks all of their store managers and franchise owners to order copies of Fury. Store X orders 20 copies of Fury. Fury decides to give 10 day trials of the game. 30 days after the game goes live, Fury decides to go D2D. Mrs Skeptic tries 10 day trial off MMORPG.com Mrs Skeptic likes Fury and decides to buy. Game code is update to say need a game buy from stores x, y, and z or to make it really easy buy D2D right from us. Now Mr. Gamestop store owner is sitting on merchandise that can't/won't move because people can buy it off the net and then D2D without having to go to the store to buy. Morale of the story is stores like Gamestop get boned from D2D sales and end up having to discount sell Fury for less than what they paid for the games just to get rid of useless stock.
I'm all for free trials and all, but lets give retailers 90 days to sell as much of the game as possible before we give the customer easy access from the net.
And you are right. There is no such thing as an MMO killer except for a game's own developer. Each game stands or falls on it's own merits.
Fear not fanbois, we are not trolls, let's take off your tin foil hat and learn what VAPORWARE is:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaporware
"Vaporware is a term used to describe a software or hardware product that is announced by a developer well in advance of release, but which then fails to emerge after having well exceeded the period of development time that was initially claimed or would normally be expected for the development cycle of a similar product."
No, it doesn't use that model. The box claims "never pay again", but that's only if you don't want things like participating in the ladders, selling on the auction house, using voice chat, or starting a guild. And don't forget you can buy gold from the company with real money, or you can even buy your skills with never having to play... Have the money? You can max your gold and skills.
I'm one of those people who read about Fury close to when it was about to launch. I actually liked the sound of the game and that it was free, but I didn't buy it once I found out that the most important things required a subscription. Who the hell competes for nothing? Sure it is fun for a while, but people like tangible goals. Requiring you to subscribe to compete in the ladders, to sell on the auction house, and the many other things isn't what I would call a free game. Fury is nothing like GW in that department, because GW offers people a story on top of PvP where you can compete and be ranked for FREE!
However, I don't think ill of Fury because of the free trial. In fact, I am downloading it now, since I like the sound of this game. I've spend hundreds of dollars on MMORPG's (over 10 total) and I am quite reluctant like another poster here to spend my money on an unknown game and company. Especially when I don't agree with their business model. I think that the makers of Fury are showing confidence in their product by offering a free trial. That says something when the majority of MMORPG's cannot offer a free trial due to the embarrassing unfinished state of their games.
Well, here is Fury's chance to hook me. I doubt it will, since I can get PvP for free with GW or can just pay $4 extra a month for DAoC, which is my most favorite MMORPG's of all time and has good PvP at all levels of play.
MMORPG's w/ Max level characters: DAoC, SWG, & WoW
Currently Playing: WAR
Preferred Playstyle: Roleplay/adventurous, in a sandbox game.
No, it doesn't use that model. The box claims "never pay again", but that's only if you don't want things like participating in the ladders, selling on the auction house, using voice chat, or starting a guild. And don't forget you can buy gold from the company with real money, or you can even buy your skills with never having to play... Have the money? You can max your gold and skills.
Yet again Brihtwulf I find myself comparing you to a particularly unpleasant fart, with a habit of lingering around with the simple intent to irritate. You have made it repeatedly and blatantly clear that Fury does not interesting you, and the business model does not appeal to you. That's great, now please move along. There are plenty of people who are enjoying the game and fully support the convenience offered by the business model.
This is a completely inappropriate response coming from a Dev.
"Don't corpse-camp that idea. Its never gonna rez"
Bladezz (The Guild)
No, it doesn't use that model. The box claims "never pay again", but that's only if you don't want things like participating in the ladders, selling on the auction house, using voice chat, or starting a guild. And don't forget you can buy gold from the company with real money, or you can even buy your skills with never having to play... Have the money? You can max your gold and skills.
Yet again Brihtwulf I find myself comparing you to a particularly unpleasant fart, with a habit of lingering around with the simple intent to irritate. You have made it repeatedly and blatantly clear that Fury does not interesting you, and the business model does not appeal to you. That's great, now please move along. There are plenty of people who are enjoying the game and fully support the convenience offered by the business model.
This is a completely inappropriate response coming from a Dev.
I thought it was hilarious...lighten up!
Wow, when did the Fury dev team take over Moderating duties for MMORPG.COM boards?
"That's great, now please move along."
... Or Else... what? Will you slap him with a Large Trout?
Maybe he thought it was an Auran message board, where he maybe has some Power to tell people to shut up.
I was merely asking nicely.
It's the British sense of humor I tell you... nobody gets it.
Those of you who're into competitive gaming should seriously try Fury out.
Personally, Im having a blast.
Its a VERY well balanced game, and often I see people whining that "everyone keeps healing" well... Almost every type of skill has atleast one ability to stop their heals, others have spells that can interrupt their heals, and some are knock backs etc.
I see a lot of people playing fury with 2 skills, and think they can play good like that.
I have around 4 builds, all of which have atleast one stun or kickback, one charge generation ability, one massive damage dealing ability. And in 2 builds I compromise on the damage and go towards healing.
It takes brains to make a good build, thats for sure. You can expect to own everything only using 2 skills (Thats what i've seen MOST of the people do)
Fury is a really GREAT game. But if you cant handle the frustration of dying alot, dont get it. Thats my advice. You WILL die alot in the beginning. And if you dont have basic intellectual abilities; you cant build proper builds.
So this is my advice, if you cant take the heat, dont buy the game. If you're up for a good challenge, give the trial a go; you wont regret it.
Now please dont give me the "Im smart and a good player, the game just sucks everyone keeps spamming heals" stuff now, cuz with that sentence you just clarify your problem.
Hope this helps you decide whether or not, to UNLEASH THE FURY!
I found Fury (in alpha and beta) to be a shallow, uncreative, unimaginative game for young teens to use to compare ePeen size. There's no content, no substance, nothing new...hell, nothing fun about it. Anything you do in Fury you can do in other games, plus a whole lot more.
And one of the games dev comes here to slam a poster? That's just bad business (no matter how true his statements may be). Even if I WERE considering paying to play this bad game, I wouldn't, for I wouldn't want to condone such childish behavior by giving them my money.
i think this game is innovative but not Enough, I think that would have more success if it were free2play with cash shop and not buy2play and also cash shop...
wow, gamespot.com gives a Fury a 4.5/10. Strangely, the user score is even lower at 4.4, and user reviews are almost always higher.
I think this is one I'll pass on. Thanks tho.
http://www.gamespot.com/pc/rpg/fury/review.html?sid=6182231
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Definitely not going to be trying this game now. Had downloaded it, and was going to create an account tomorrow; then I saw this disgraceful display. Learn how to use subtlety (and considering that's a key part of the "British sense of humour" you should be well aware of this) before you attempt witty remarks. Also consider looking into how one should conduct himself when acting as an envoy for an entire company and it's game.
I'm glad that they did this, because of the trial, I am able to try before I buy. I'm impressed with what I did in the first day and I believe I'm going to buy this game before too long.
Excellent, I can finally give this game a try.
(This thread is kinda out of hand, isn't it?... Come on kids, it's only a game)
-iCeh
SO I JUST GOT FINISHED TRYING FURY!!!
MY THOUGHTS
I downloaded the Fury trial yesterday and played it for an hour today. Here is what I think. First off, that tutorial voice that keeps reminding you what to do every 5 seconds is annoying and uncalled for. I actually felt harrassed by the thing. When I am going to each trainer to decide what I want to do, I don't need the damn tutorial voice to repeat what my next objective is every 5 sec. But anyhow, the tutorial doesn't last forever and I don't judge a game by it's tutorial. Although it is fair to judge the developers attention to detail by little things like that. But on to the more important stuff.
I know, I know. You're thinking, "but you only played an hours, what could he possibly have to tell us that matters?" Well, I can give you the first impression of a MMORPG gamer of 6+ years that has played it all. The skill system that Fury has is not innovative, however, being that most MMORPG's are class-based clones, it is a nice thing for Fury to have. The arena style matches that they offer isn't innovative either. However, they were fun. There's that innovative word again. Why do I keep talking about innovation? Because just about everything has been done already at least two or more times by the current sellection of MMORPG's, so the game needs to bring something to the table to pull people away from their current game to the new game. Lets face it, Fury is a niche title that will not bring enough new players to the genre to warrant us assuming that Fury doesn't need to offer something new in order to pull veteran MMORPGers away from their current games.
Now to the stuff that will probably get me flamed, but so be it. I uninstalled Fury soon after for the following reasons. Guild Wars already fills the arena PvP style MMORPG niche real well. The concept of switching out your skills for each battle is very similar to Guild Wars. However, to be fair, Fury allows you to choose from all of the skills available without having to reroll a new character. It would be equivalent to Guild Wars making the skills from all the classes in the game available to one character. Fury also makes all of the armor available to one character. This is the only innovative thing that Fury has to offer and quite frankly isn't enough for me to leave Guild Wars to pay to play Fury for the same type of fun that Guild Wars offers for completely free.
The controls for Fury are unintuative as well. The easiest way to move around is to press both mouse buttons down to run and use your mouse to steer. This leaves your left hand free to use the hotkeys. The problem with this is that it is real easy for you to move your mouse into positions that makes viewing the battle less than favourable. For the record, I kicked butt. So this isn't coming from a sore loser or anything. I just don't like the controls. You can use WASD movement, but that would really require you to have a mouse with a lot of buttons on it or a special keyboard to map your hotkeys on it. You have a total of 20 slots you can use to put your skills in. Default is 1 to = and Alt+1 to =. Now if you are getting the same gameplay in Fury as you do in your previous game, what reason is there to go to Fury? GRAPHICS! So your old game is outdated and you think Fury will be a nice graphical upgrade with the same game play. After all, that is the real reason why people leave the older better games for the newer more shallow fantasy games. Well, my computer is good enough to run Vanguard on average-above average settings without any problems and I think Fury didn't look good enough to make the switch from Guild Wars on graphics alone. In fact, the majority of the time my avatar was pretty small on my screen so I could watch my surroundings.
In summary, the game isn't a bad game. It just suffers from a lack of innovation. Fury isn't alone in this fault either, but each game that is released without innovation will be worse off than the uninnovative game before it. To top it off, Fury doesn't offer anything else to do when you don't want to PvP like Guild Wars does, so unless you absolutely hate RPG story content, then Guild Wars is a better choice for a Arena style PvP game. In fact, a lot of fantasy MMORPG's out there offer arena style play in addition to a vast amount of other features for only $4 more a month. Speaking of monthly fees. What PvPer actually PvPs for nothing? Everyone wants to compete on ladders and rankings. Guild Wars offers this for free, while Fury makes you pay for this feature. Guild Wars allows you to create a guild and a guild hall, which dwarfs every guild hall in the genre for free, while Fury makes you pay for it. Point being is that Fury is a competitor of Guild Wars since they are both focused on arena style PvP and both allow you to get into the PvP from the start. The difference is that Guild Wars offers more content than just PvP and offers the same PvP content for free that Fury requires you to pay for. If Fury allowed non-subscribers to compete on ladders and create guilds and etc, then Fury would just be a Guild Wars lite for those that don't want PvE'ers in their game at all.
Thanks for reading
P.S.- Great Wall of Text hits you for 5k ranting damage.
MMORPG's w/ Max level characters: DAoC, SWG, & WoW
Currently Playing: WAR
Preferred Playstyle: Roleplay/adventurous, in a sandbox game.