You have a good memory :).

We have a hard fight ahead of us, that’s very true. The team here is determined to get the game right, though, and with dedication amazing things can happen. Just look at EVE.

Alex Weekes.. why does that sound familiar? I want to say NCSoft Europe…
Didn’t Alex leave NCSoft and come back to aus?

But thats a different mystery.
As for Fury, I hope the patch does make it better as I was quite looking forward to this game before I saw some of the gameplay vids and realised it was more Unreal Tournament in 3rd person with a crappy interface than a contender to (my personal mental) bar of excellence set by Guild Wars PvP. I might still download the free trial and give it a whirl, but as for Fury itself, the damage has been done.

I think it was one of the blizzard devs who was speaking at a conference earlier this year and mentioned that it doesn’t matter how much an MMO changes as time progresses as its initial impact upon release is whats going to ultimately determine its fate and the level of publicity/word of mouth its going to recieve.
Sadly given that Fury had such a poor showing at the start, I think this may slowly whirl the drain till the inevitable journey into the abyss of nothingness and bad plumbing.

You’ve obviously read the reviews, and I can’t disagree with your assessment. You might want to take a look at the mini-site and the list of upcoming changes, though, as this update addresses key complaints commonly raised in the reviews.

Its the first massively publicised game my hometown released was so crappy :(