The Fury Forums have word that Auran is shutting down Fury, their arena combat game that has been struggling since late last year (thanks Kotaku Australia). In December cuts were announced at Auran (story), followed quickly by word that Fury was going free-to-play (story), and just days later Auran cut down to a minimal staff to support the project (story). Following all this, three months ago it was announced they were launching Fury League (story), offering the chance to play the game for cash money, but the last shoe has seemingly dropped on the game, which will be going offline in the next 48 hours:

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.
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Bossman

Wishing things had turned out better.