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uran Games, Gamecock Media Group and Codemasters Online have jointly announced the world's first Open Beta event for their upcoming PvP MMO, FURY. The event, called FURY Challenge, is billed as the richest prize pool ever for an online role-playing event with more than USD$1,000,000 in prizes available.

"We believe that FURY will be the start of a PvP revolution, so why not create a revolutionary Open Beta event to show the world that we have arrived," stated Tony Hilliam, Auran CEO. "Last week we announced our unique business model of free to play with free content updates and an optional subscription. This week, we're pleased to announce a landmark in gaming with a total prize pool valued at over one million dollars. In late September, hundreds of thousands of players will compete to kick-start their Fury careers by winning Fury Game Cards, Fury Subscriptions and lots of other cool loot too."

"We've lined up a huge array of prizes from our sponsors including NVidia, Dell, IGN, GameStop, Harvey Norman, FHM, Logitech and ZBoard," said Brian Cooke, Auran Marketing Director. "More sponsors are lining up to get their brand message on the FURY Challenge website, on in-store advertising and also on the in-game loading screens (which will be present for FURY Challenge only). The full list of sponsors and prizes will be continually updated via the www.furychallenge.com website."

FURY Challenge officially kicks off on September 14th and runs over 3 consecutive weekends. The first weekend is set aside for practice and to give players a chance to unlock abilities and experiment with their Incarnations. The next two weekends are the competition weekends where players will compete in 3 game types on 7 different Ladders. Prizes are awarded to the top players and Clans. Most importantly, it is not the most wins that counts, but the players' Best 10 results in each Ladder. This means that even casual players have a chance of winning. Full Rules and Conditions of Entry can be found at www.FuryChallenge.com/Rules.

Gamecock Media Group

I gotta finish this coffee.  I read that as Woodcock Media Group and was extremely disturbed for a few moments.

What was the last game that promised a million dollars and then folded up into ash once their much hyped but awful game came out?  It had a nice, flashy name.

What was the last game that promised a million dollars and then folded up into ash once their much hyped but awful game came out?  It had a nice, flashy name.

I can attest there's an actual game here already.  It's good fun and it plays like a Fantasy FPS (with advancement!).  The killer will be if they hose advancement and skill purchase between now and release in the name of "omg it's too fast!."

As a sidenote is there another mirror for the beta client than fileplanet?  The university internet I'd like to pull it from blocks the site.

Only 4 hours to go!

If you're going to spend a chunk of the weekend VIP-only (whatever that entails) please put it in the login screen.

I've been playing for a while and the game is really fun.   I'm a bit worried about how the ladder hasn't been pushed into the beta client yet though.  With little more than a month till the supposed release and no system in sight to rank competitive play it seems worrisome.   The game is fun but the competitive community could lose interest quickly if they have no way to even organize themselves into tournaments or competitions.

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Thank you, Shannon, for registering with Fury.

Any other information they want to put in here.

You can manage your account using the "My Account" tool.

Okay, should I be getting a "Build: 23251
Error receiving packet.
Failed to connect to the login server." error when I try to start up?

I've tried to play several nights in a row but always get the 'failed to connect to login sever' error - someone tell me when it's working!

Hmm, there must be a new version - mine has said unable to connect all day.

First, a corrupted file on download, followed by an install process that arbitrarily hung on me and forced a restart of the program. Subsequently came the patch and starting the game, and finding out I needed to install several fixes to get the game to work. That should have been my first sign.

Install fixes, restart computer, start game. Linger around the tutorial area trying stuff out and learning the UI and controls better until an arbitrary crash caused by a completely random connection disconnect from the server. Once more, I restart the program and have to go back through all the text and training pointers I'm -forced- to listen to just to be able to get to the game to have some fun. 0 warzones, awesome, but whatever. Go to Sanctum, physical memory dump, computer crashes and reboots. Deal with the prolonged start up time I suddenly have to deal with as well as noticably slower system speed most likely due to the fixes I had to install to run the game, restart the game again because I want to play it before I go to school, go through the training again to go back to Sanctum.

Sanctum loads, starts running fine, then slows to a stop and hangs for 3 minutes. Program crashes stating that the install is corrupt and that it must be fixed. Launcher loads and starts assumedly checking and fixing the files, then randomly pops up an error about direct x 9. Another of the same error pops up, I close one, and the launcher cancels the repair and self terminates with an error message. Reload the game, loading into Sanctum, game crashes with no message and forces my desktop to 600x800 with 4 colours.

Now I know why it's called Fury.

The most recent patch has rendered portions of the game playable and I can now see what Fury PvP is truly like.

It's a bunch of random numbers rising from the heads of friend and foe alike while we all mash buttons hoping the boring skills we chose will actually function this time and that the random numbers work to our favor. Sometimes we win. Sometimes we die. Then we get disappointing loot and level our skills so they cost more to equip but don't don't really get more effective and we start all over again.

This is obviously not the game for me.

If you like random numbers and chaotic button mashing, I recommend Fury!

My experience is similar.