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Fury: Auran Announces Fury Buisiness Model
Szark
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Auran Games has announced it'd business model for Fury. The game will be free to play, with players having the option to pay a subscription fee to maintain Immortal status and gain additional benefits.
Brisbane, Australia, August 7th, 2007;
Auran Games today made their long awaited announcement regarding the new business model for their upcoming PvP MMO, FURY. The game will be available from both retail and online at standard retail pricing from October. It is free to play with regular free content updates, plus an option to subscribe for additional benefits. Importantly, all players, regardless of subscription status, have access to the most powerful items and abilities in the game. Subscription offers additional benefits, choice and flexibility.Tony Hilliam, Auran CEO, explains; "FURY is a game that blends elements from different genres; the pace and adrenaline rush from FPS games; the depth of character customization from RPGs; and the social and virtual economy aspects from MMOs" he said. "Therefore we wanted to make sure that our business model took into account the different expectations of various player types."
All players in FURY start out as "Immortals" for their first month of play. Immortal status gives players a range of additional benefits including:
- Quick travel in the Sanctuaries and Schools
- VoIP talk privileges
- One additional Item Roll Slot
- Extended "rested gold bonus"
- Selling privileges on the Auction House
- Priority log-in queuing
- Entry into weekly and seasonal Ladders
- Personal player battle statistics
- In-game Customer Service access
- Elite access to the test server to preview new content
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Read the full release here.
Comments
Well at least it isn't an item shop model.
This almost kind of kills the game for me. Yeah they have to make some extra income some how to keep it going but, I thought Fury was focused on the competitive gaming scene. This is probably the wrong site to comment about competitive gaming or esports in general but kind of disappointing. Oh well.
Well I'm not sure if I understand it right , but does this mean that if you dont pay you dont get to participate in competitions ?
Anything in particular that concerns you? The subscription is optional and you lose nothing in terms of character power if you choose not to subscribe.
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dStar and Airspell.
I suggest heading over to the Fury forums as there is plenty of discussion and clarification on these points which should sort out all your questions and concerns.
http://forums.auran.com/fury/forum/
www.psfei.com
Well I guess I'll just wait and see what's in store for the organized competitive side of things. More information about how the game will be done with The CPL and especially for teams that want to practice for tournaments. Other than that I really have no other concern. Progressing and unlocking through items and skills ect. really doesn't interest me. I'm just a fan of RPG-PvP combat and especially organized matches between two competitive teams. I've been wishing for such a game for a very long time. Fury seems to be the only one to come really close to what I've always wanted to see. Basically if you took everything out of WoW and only left the Arenas, or everything out of Guild Wars and only left GvG. Yeah, I'm a rare breed haha. I'm not complaining don't get me wrong. I kind of over reacted with that post anyways.
Keep your eyes peeled here:
http://furychallenge.com/
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