Vanguard sticks out as one of the biggest failures in MMORPG history. The game was praised as the hardcore player’s wet dream; promising as it was, the publisher made a crucial mistake by releasing the game before it was finished. The coding was largely incomplete, and the game required extensive polishing.
Without proper coding or optimization, the players who played Vanguard felt they had been sold an unfinished product. This lead many players to cancel their subscriptions and move on to another game. Furthermore,the developers were forced to spend their time fixing coding issues after the game was released.
Players left the game in droves, and Vanguard would become just another failed MMO.
Hellgate: London had many of the same problems. Many players had the feeling that the game was unfinished when released and the developers should have been given more time. Even now, Hellgate: London players feel that the developers are still working to finish their game. Continued…
Auran and GameCock’s much-hyped, PvP-only MMORPG Fury ships today after a long beta period and 
Australian developer Auran sent along word today that the Fury Challenge has been extended to Oct. 7, and has topped $2 million in prizes.
Texas publisher Gamecock and Australian developer Auran found the perfect place to market their new game, Fury. At CPL Summer, we’ll see Pandemic, one of the top World of Warcraft teams in the world, take on Flow Gaming, a well-known FPS team, with $4,000 on the line.
