Football Manager Live beta key giveaway starting soon
Get in there quick.
Eurogamers and Sports Interactive will be cutting the ribbon and announcing the beginning of the Football Manager Live beta key giveaway at 3pm. That's a link to the page you need to go. Obviously.
In case it wasn't obvious, today's bonanza gives you a chance to get in there and try out the new massively-multiplayer online vision before everyone else, and presumably help the team find and iron out some bugs.
All you have to do to get involved is become a registered member of the wonderful Eurogamers community, which really isn't as painful as it sounds - no money or promotional guff is involved. Once you've done that you can race over to the sign-up page and hope you're one of the first 25 in line.
Football Manager Live is an online spin-off of the consistently great and life-consuming management simulation from Sports Interactive. This time around you'll be able to set up your own leagues to compete against real people, and even have the game auto-play for you if you can't make a fixture. You can find out much more about it in our extensive hands-on.
The full game is due out in the UK next March. This first stage of the beta will be made up of 1000 people in total, and places are being described as "rarer than rocking horse poo" by SI boss Miles Jacobson. Yes, we're using that quote again.
So go. Go, go, go. Those keys won't last long.
Sign-ups will also take place on the Sports Interactive website, so you can always try your hand there.
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F5 button primed and tested - Check
Meeting scheduled for 3.00 - Damn it
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er...
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I'm gunna be so pissed of come 3:00:05, I can tell. This is just PLAIN EVIL.
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I want to know where the other 975 are going! I imagine the SI forums, but anywhere else?
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Did i mention that Wimbledon AFC are the best club in the country? /licks arse *coughs out furball*
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Oh well.
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Stagger them out next time Eurogamer. That was just silly
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From "this giveaway has not started" to "thanks for taking part" in the blink of an F5 button.
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and it's blank!
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I GOT one!!!
However...
The message says:
"You've successfully claimed a code from Football Manager Live Beta Test. Well done!
The details are as follows:
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Your code: "
But it doesn't contain the code lol!!!!
Anyone?
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According to Orange, you were early - according to our work network you were late. Oh well, I wasnt *that* bothered, more surprised I remembered.....
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giveway hasn't started f5 f5 hasn't started f5 f5 f5 finished.
eh
clearly i wan't hitting the f5 quickly enough
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and it's blank!"
Same here
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Goodbye social life!
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Yeay for me
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Could have just drawn names out of a hat. :x
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Rubbish.
Does that mean I didn't get one then?
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I DEMAND MY CODE DAMMIT
Subject: You've successfully claimed a code from Football Manager Live Beta Test
From: Eurogamer
Date: June 8, 2007, 3:00 pm
To: vagabond
You've successfully claimed a code from Football Manager Live Beta Test. Well done!
The details are as follows:
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Your code:
We recommend that you keep this code private, and that you read the instructions on the giveaway page to find out how to use your code, which can be found here: http://ga mers.eurogamer.net/giveaways.ph...
Cheerio,
Beaker, the Eurogamer Robot.
P.S. this is an automated message, sent from our lovely Robot. Unfortunately he won't read any responses to this message, so please don't reply!
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Your code is :
Blank.. =[. I bet this means we didn't get one. Pooooo.
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/shakes uncontrollably
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"Congratulations! You have won one of the 25 beta keys for the Football Manager Live beta test.
You will be contacted by Sports Interactive via a private message on this site with instructions for what to do next.
The beta test begins on June 18th.
Please ensure the e-mail address on your Eurogamers user profile is up to date."
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Have i got a key or not? Said there were 25 remaining when i got the page with the boxes
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How do you know which one you "were"?
By the id in the link? If so... then I was number 2.
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What's going on? We want our beta keys.. =[
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So if we got... we aint in?
You've successfully claimed a code from Football Manager Live Beta Test. Well done!
The details are as follows:
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Your code:
We recommend that you keep this code private, and that you read the instructions on the giveaway page to find out how to use your code, which can be found here: http://ga mers.eurogamer.net/giveaways.ph...
Cheerio,
Beaker, the Eurogamer Robot.
P.S. this is an automated message, sent from our lovely Robot. Unfortunately he won't read any responses to this message, so please don't reply!
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Edit, but it looks to me that way more than 25 people got a message about it from all the posts above....................
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i await my code
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]http://ga mers.eurogamer.net/user_profile...[/link]
YOU WILL BE CONTACTED BY SI WITH DETAILS ON HOW TO START PLAYING BEFORE JUNE 18TH.
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/refreshes emails for the next 5 days
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if it is, there isn't much hope for the people with a blank code
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Subject: You've successfully claimed a code from Football Manager Live Beta Test
From: Eurogamer
Date: June 8, 2007, 3:00 pm
To: dean_c
You've successfully claimed a code from Football Manager Live Beta Test. Well done!
The details are as follows:
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Your code:
We recommend that you keep this code private, and that you read the instructions on the giveaway page to find out how to use your code, which can be found here: [link url=http:/ /gamers.eurogamer.net/giveaways.php?id=2
]http://ga mers.eurogamer.net/giveaways.ph...[/link]
Cheerio,
Beaker, the Eurogamer Robot.
P.S. this is an automated message, sent from our lovely Robot. Unfortunately he won't read any responses to this message, so please don't reply!
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If that's the case then I didn't get one even tho I was told I'd won. Sigh.
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I assume this means I didn't get one?
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Beaker, the Eurogamer Robot"
For some reason, the fact this is signed 'Beaker, the Eurogamer Robot' pisses me off even more. F YOU EUROGAMER!
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If that's the case then I didn't get one even tho I was told I'd won. Sigh.
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*sigh* ditto here then. If it's true though I think that's unfair, sending out congrats messages to peeps who missed out. I was all chuffed too, maybe if we asked nicely, those who did get congrats messages (I count prolly 5-10 extra) get places anyway. Surely SI wouldn't mind? I just think it's a little unfair to those who thought they were in but aren't due to a technical glitch
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Oh well. Not a surprise.
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Oh wait, no you haven't. Next they'll be telling us to phone up a premium hotline to claim a lottery win in the Spanish lottery last year...
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/me checks the giveaways on the profile, sees the FML giveaway there...
so,i´m in?
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Go and have a tea break, the whinging will have died down when you get back.*
*this statement is not guaranteed
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you guys should let us know whats going on
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To avoid any doubt, here are the 25 users who will be contacted by SI:
abcd
andijames
mortonfan
SpudUK
Tigr
maxx
ExeC
inni786
Schlocky
Mr-T
daleormsby
promoted2001
outra9e
Damo0001
geoffw22
wellsie
anjin
nikreeves
sickpuppysoftware
nesta
viscti
liquidflunky
ALKI
Rb
LFMartins
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Not sore losers, just people disappointed that, despite getting a message saying congratulations we have, in fact missed out.
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/me is sad, very sad
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You've successfully claimed a code from Football Manager Live Beta Test. Well done!
The details are as follows:
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Your code:
We recommend that you keep this code private, and that you read the instructions on the giveaway page to find out how to use your code, which can be found here: http://ga mers.eurogamer.net/giveaways.ph...
Cheerio,
Beaker, the Eurogamer Robot.
P.S. this is an automated message, sent from our lovely Robot. Unfortunately he won't read any responses to this message, so please don't reply!
this reply i have says I HAVE A KEY, same with everyone else...
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I´ve never felt more lucky.
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after all that and nearly choking on my bacon sandwhich thinking i won, i actually in fact, didn't. oh.
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saying YES YOU HAVE WON A KEY...
o no wait you havent cos somethings gone wrong.
how do we know that the keys were given out correctly if this is the case ?
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Oh well. Not a surprise."
Fucking freeloaders. They don't get their own way then moan. It's free for fuck sake.
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i don't think you understand - if you get told you won, then you haven't what else do you expect?
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So despite 3 messages claiming I won, I actually haven't?
*punches Beaker in the nose*
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Beaker needs killing for dashing our hopes
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So they people who got a message with no key wouldnt have won anyway.
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eurogamer says fuck the other 15...
yah great comp
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I'm sad too, I don't even recognise most of those winning names
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25 of 25 keys avaliable, pressed the buttons and got my msg
i still managed to lose out?
good luck to those who got in. lets hope SI do the honorable thing and make up for this error by giving the rest of us, that got the msg a key anyway.
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I'm not blaming Eurogamer for this, as these things always go tits up, especially when it's such a small number of keys for such a large amount of people chomping at the bit.
It's still a lot of cock to get a congrats email and for it to be sent in error.
In better news, George Michael has been banned from driving for 2 years. Crazy lunatic.
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I was another of the FM Live Beta winners who actually didnt win.
i guess this is what relegation feels like...
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I'll get a full explanation from our tech guys shortly.
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Feel totally empty.
Its a bit sad really cos its a computer game... But then again Footy manager always seems to have a habit of taking over lives
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Ah well, I only wanted the key so I could test it out without paying the monthly subs
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Still a total fuck up at whatever angle you want to fob us off
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a) the time at which it started was incorrect. You stated 3pm GMT, when infact Britain is currently in GMT + 1, therefore it should not even have started yet!
b) the fact that I was "given" a message saying I was successfull @ 15:00 (followed shortly again at 15:04 and 15:06) and being told by you that I was not is once again a disgrace.
I recently signed up to your website and have been very disapointed in your service thus far.
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Hahaha, sounds like his off to his lawyer!
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Hey guys still 975 beta spots left
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O wait no sorry. lots of people enter'd some one else won.
better luck next week
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i can forward you the msg, screenshot it what ever you like.
what a fucking shambles.
how do we know you even gave them our correctly ?
thats also could be "an error" as you put it
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Meh, I'm over it now. But it's like giving a toy to a kid saying 'congratulations you've won!'
Then to snatch it out their hands with a, eh, wha? whatever sorry our mistake.
Stick to the good old draw from the hat next time, seriously
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scam & chips
scam & egg
scam chips egg& scam
this lot couldn't organise a pish-up in a brewery.
eurogamer
def'.
games site that promotes giveaways, congratulates all competitors, then tells 40% to **** themselves.
thanks
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Missed opportunity there.
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or are you just going to bury the massive fuckup ?
there are currently alot of very angry people on the sigames forum who have been waiting for over a week and now you have fucked them over.
i dont think its right what has happened at all
you said theres a fuckup yourself, and yet i still have an email in my PM box saying ive won a beta key.
there isnt a sorry we have messed up msg in there so are you just going to dodge the matter or actually try to manage the situation ?
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Out of interest, do you have a beta code, coz surely if you do the honorable thing to do here would be to distribute them to the people that you mislead.
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Three times the disapointment!
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Unfortunate that error messages were sent out after the first 25 had won but sometimes things go wrong.
Thanks again!
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You've successfully claimed a code from Football Manager Live Beta Test
there maybe other comps, but i won a key in this one
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Let's just hope lessons are learned and next time they'll do random draws
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Still disappointed though
Oh, and jonycrack, since you can't spell (including, possibly, your own first name) it's probably a good job you're not in - you know you can't l33t-sp33k the code you would've got to make it half a second quicker to type, right?
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This was a FREE giveaway afterall. People like you don't deserve keys coming out with comments calling people 'twats' etc.
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I can understand some people being slightly miffed, thinking they had a key, and dont. But if you get an email saying "heres your key", and there is no key, you might just stop for a second and assume something went wrong.
They only had 25 FFS, you had very little chance getting one in the first place.
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:S
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I was under the impression that my key was won and reserved as it said there were 25 left when i accessed the page. Surely a script could be made that only shows the 'claim freebie' screen to the first 25 to access it then all this rubbish would be avoided as there is no way i wasnt one of the first 25 to load that page and i dont gots no key!
Total shambles. To take the bitterness to the next level i call for ip logs to be looked at or SI to run the beta as 2 x 1000 player worlds!
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To those who are disappointed that they didn't win this comp, there is another give away of spaces in the News of the World on Sunday.
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I wonder if there is a regulatory body to complain to about what happened here..
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Some people here make me laugh.
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Despite it being a "free giveaway" the whole thing was a farce and ignorance is being shown by no one acknowledging the fact.
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well i think it was completely fair!!!
They gave out loads - took half back but put me on the winner list!!
Whats not fair??
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I've had 2 messages saying I have a code, yet they are missing the code.
So whats going on?
I submitted it when there were 25 left, then after I got the first message there were 6 left.
So has someone ballsed up?
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it's a freebie! some of you got it, others didn't!
get on with your lives people! jesus, and i thought the off season was hitting me hard!
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