Recently, Auran, the makers the the upcoming PvP MMORPG, Fury, announced that they would be holding a tournament with $1,000,000 in prizes up for grabs. Today, I talk to Content Designer Michael Hampden about the upcoming event.

MMORPG.com:

This week, you guys announced something called the "Fury Challenge". Can you give us a quick idea of what that's all about?

Michael Hampden:

FURY Challenge is a massive beta event beginning on the 14th of September. We've teamed up with major sponsors like NVIDIA, Dell, Logitech, and more to offer over $1,000,000 dollars worth of prizes for FURY Challenge participants.

Read the whole interview here.

Sounds Cool, I'm there for sure.

I've played competitively in video games (CS:S, CS1.6,DoD 1.3,DOD:S,CoH) and I doubt this game will ever hit as big as CPL it might hit CAL and have a few LAN tournaments. The game hogs the system way too much, you need a very good computer rig to run it. And the fact that theres equipment/classes will never make it balanced, you'll always have imbalanced in MMORPGs or whatever they're calling this game MMOPVP?

There aren't true classes as you can learn any skill in the game...

the equipment doesn't make that big of a difference.. better gear takes more equip points which means less to put into skills you can equip.. it's all a juggling act

sounds like a big LOL to me Ryl path of the emperor anyone (1 mil contest )....came that far they eventually had to cancel it.

I know i cant compare but WHY o why would a game need such kind of publicity?...it has nothing 2 do with the game itself so meh..

I like the idea of this, although I feel that the people who have been beta testing already will have an advantage.  I personally think that giving everyone more then two weeks to prepare would create an equal playing ground.  Perhaps allowing people to start practicing on the day one purchases it from the store August 28th ( or can one do this already ).  Or holding such a big contest until the games been out for at least a month so people can compete on equal grounds.  Thats what this game is about right?  Would be nice...

Originally posted by vaizard

I doubt this game will ever hit as big as CPL it might hit CAL and have a few LAN tournaments. The game hogs the system way too much, you need a very good computer rig to run it. And the fact that theres equipment/classes will never make it balanced, you'll always have imbalanced in MMORPGs or whatever they're calling this game MMOPVP?

PVPMMO. As someone else noted above, there are no class boundaries with Fury as all characters have access to all of the abilities and equipment available.

You may also have missed a recent announcement about Fury and CPL: http://www.thecpl.com/?p=1813

Originally posted by VaNaS

sounds like a big LOL to me Ryl path of the emperor anyone (1 mil contest )....came that far they eventually had to cancel it.

I know i cant compare but WHY o why would a game need such kind of publicity?...it has nothing 2 do with the game itself so meh..

hahahah! as soon as I read that $ 1 mill prize i thought of that lol ur gettin me scurred! stop reading my mind man! what game seriously need to contend with that type of bait and switch tactic. remember what happened to ryl POTE?? i foresee the same for this game.

This game is really not a MMO, there is very little character development.  Strictly a niche product.

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Originally posted by Ozmodan
This game is really not a MMO, there is very little character development. Strictly a niche product.

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Agreed. I have no problem giving it a try. It's not actually releasing till later right? After this contest is done?

*edit* Ok nvm, it's being called a massive beta event. Ya, I have no problem giving it a try.

Originally posted by Ozmodan

This game is really not a MMO, there is very little character development.  Strictly a niche product.

Actually the game can meet the definition of MMO.. possibly not the RPG part which they themselves omit. Then again what is it that you call character progression in all these other games?

 It may be a niche product but technically all games are. I think the game will do quite well for the team.

 As for the million dollars in prizes, not to worry. Instead of pulling magic money dollars out of their ass like the RYL guys did, they have a bunch of well respected and well funded sponsors helping to handle that.