Comments on: Tony Hilliam: The Facts About Auran’s Closure

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 07:18:40 +0000

Dave, DAVE, Dave, Dave, Alight Dave, Alight, how are you Dave, how are you. Yeah ? Good yeah, good.
How are the kids, yeah ? nice one. yeah. great.
Oh. sorry mate I thought you were dave.

By: Raefon

Raefon — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 07:23:38 +0000

Yes new content of Fury, should be a new engine, better graphic some game play worth the time and well lets just say NOT FURY.

Missing the mark by this far, should be the sentence that Auran is recieving and thats the death bell sounding.

One hit wonder with Dark Reign doesnt make a great game company, and obviously creates an ego not able to use focus groups to show Fury was a waste of time.

By: Greg

Greg — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 19:05:07 +0000

Dark Reign great game, I wish they would of stuck with this line of games and kept it going over the years.

Hope this doesn't happen to Pandemic, but where is Battlezone 3?

By: Fairplay

Fairplay — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 11:55:07 +0000

It’s always sad to see game developers get the shunt. Especially local based ones at the worst of times.

By: Moloy

Moloy — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 11:49:24 +0000

"I expect the naysayers will have different thoughts, but they haven’t played the new build…yet."

I'm having trouble working out what he meant with that ominous "yet" at the end there.

By: Brent

Brent — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 10:51:02 +0000

Wow what a way to kick all those guys and gals in the ass who worked so hard to make the game even if it bombed.

By: Sander

Sander — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 10:18:55 +0000

It’s a shame to see Auran go. Dark Reign was a classic and while I thought Fury was a stupid idea, it’s a grand plan to reach for the stars, even if you fail.

By: r.i.p. auran

r.i.p. auran — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 08:39:55 +0000

So a few days ago things are grim but will go on, now it is all closed?

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Anyhow, you wouldn't want to be one of the poor people still employed by the other Auran shell company, look forward to working till 4am as Tony wants with no overtime (or pay when next week they close up...)

Very disappointing to see Auran go down.

By: BARRY

BARRY — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 08:37:48 +0000

It’s sad to see a company go under, but they weren’t producing the goods. I’m all for supporting OZ developers, but I’m not going to blindly following a company just because they’re in the same city as where I was born. A funny thing I saw a fews months ago was an article on news.com.au about how ‘Fury’ will put OZ developers on the map (some marketing department contrived BS I’m sure), thing is, we’re already on the map, we’ve got top class developers here, Creative Assembly, Pandemic for example.

By: Rahul Chand

Rahul Chand — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 08:31:06 +0000

I live in Brisbane and for me Dark Reign was an awesome game..I still remember its ending even after 9 years

Sad to see Auran go down like this.