Fury is so different from WoW that a review by someone who spend countless hours grinding not one but three characters to level 70 can’t turn out good. Besides, stating that you do have three level 70’s and don’t enjoy grinding for experience doesn’t go well together. Furthermore Andrew Podolsky’s explanation on why Fury and Wow is compared (”The comparisons to WoW are valid, considering that they cost the same”) is just wrong on so many levels. By his logic I can compare a piece of candy and a newspaper to see which tastes better, because they happen to cost the same.

That said, I can agree on some things pointed out. The tutorial is very bad, and it doesn’t allow for a smooth entry to the real combat. There’s also problems with the UI and performance on the High-end renderer.
If you are willing to look through that, you find a game with intense battles and complex tactics. Fury has a lot of potential and a very dedicated team of developers, so don’t dismiss it just yet.

No mention of the complex meta-game; where every ability and piece of equipment has 10 ranks, each rank more powerful but costing more equip points, forcing a decision between powerful abilities and powerful gear, or a balance between them.

Interviewing a Reborn (lowest rank) and proclaiming he’s high-ranked and well-geared.

Running in low-render and complaining about poor graphics.

Expecting to be able to take on 3 probably more experiences players at once and survive.

And are you mouse-clicking your abilites in the skillbar?

EPIC FAIL, SIR.

I’ve never seen WoW even mentioned in the games chat. And bind your hotkeys, use the number pad.

also you interviewed a REBORN player, which is the lowest rank possible and he did not have good gear, it was even mismatched pieces for different classes…

I think the review is balanced just fine pointing out the pros and cons and delivering a score reflecting his opinion of the experience that just might be shared amongst other gamers.

The comparisons to WoW are valid, considering that they cost the same, except Fury doesn’t really deliver on the PVP combat that was promised.

I hope you two enjoy Fury but just because one reviewer didn’t like it (and I thought he explained why very well), doesn’t mean your opinion isn’t valid. You just have different opinions. Thanks for commenting.

If people would stop comparing games to WoW, then we’d have more diversity and variety in games that are released, such as in Fury. Games such as Vanguard, Age of Conan, and Warhammer are all trying to be similar to WoW, and in doing so they fail horribly. Why are they always trying to be similar to WoW? Because WoW works, 9 million subscribers prove that. But just because WoW works, does that mean that nothing else will work also? Why can’t a new game that is in no way similar to WoW be popular too?

I felt that this review was extremely biased. The game is fantastic, it breaks the mold of all MMORPGs and any other game. The combat is fun, although yes it’s true I’m paying attention to my skillbar more than my environment, which is disappointing because the environments are amazing. But the combat is great, the customization is just incredible, although I think some new armor models and new hairstyles/colors could be implemented, and once they release the Weekly and Monthly ladders, the game will really be competetive. I agree that there should be more PvP types added, and even the option to choose a non-24 person Bloodbath, maybe a 12 or 16 person one, less people = less lag on low end systems.

As for the lag issues, yeah it seems like it hogs a lot of resources. But any new game that is released hogs a lot of resources, it’ll get better when computer systems get better, and with more patches. I’ll bet that they’re already working on a hardware patch that will increase performance. And I guess you didn’t pay attention to Fury’s forums at all (forums, a major part of a game) and didn’t see that a great way to increase performance was to turn off the sound, they’re having issues with their sound working properly with soundcards of a certain variety, turning the sound off will increase your FPS by about 2x.

Your review was atrocious. In order to give a good review, you need to give good examples of the positive and negative sides of the game. Let the gamers make their own decision. I’ll bet that some gamer who was interested in this game read your review, and now isn’t going to try the game. I bet if he hadn’t read your review (or maybe read a version that included good sides of the game also), and had tried the game that he’d see that the performance isn’t that bad and that he enjoys the combat and is in love with the customization of character classes/abilities. See? You have to include good sides, never give a 100% negative review because it disheartens people from even trying the game.

And on a side note: I’ll also bet that the reason you didn’t like the game was because it’s too hard for you. There was no easy PvE in the beginning where you get to kill some level 1 wolves, you got thrown right into some intense PvP and got your butt handed to you on a silver platter. Well that’s how it’s supposed to be, you’re supposed to get good at the game, you can’t just log in on the first time playing and expect to dominate everything like you dominate level 1 wolves in WoW.

I’ve played Guild Wars, WoW, SWG, Vanguard, City of Heroes/Villains, Silkroad Online, Eve Online, FFXI, EQ2, and many many other games. I find this game to be completely different than any of them, a very good step in the right direction for new games being released. While it has its downsides to it, I believe that this is a good game and show incredible potential.

Thank you(If you read this), and have a nice day.
-Joshua Goldberg