Get a Tabula Rasa beta key

By Robert Purchese Published 29 August, 2007

We've got thousands more.

If you missed out at the beginning of August when we threw keys at several thousand people to unlock the door to the closed beta test of Tabula Rasa then don't panic - we've got thousands more.

Four thousand, if you're asking, thanks to the generosity of publisher NCsoft. And all you have to do snap your pincers around one is head over to our Eurogamers community site and say, "yes, I'll have one". But also actually click on the bit saying, "Claim your freebie!", taking note of the little check boxes above.

You'll have to register for Eurogamers if you aren't already a member, and we can't think why you wouldn't be: it's absolutely free, we won't sell your underpants when you aren't looking, and it has lots of nifty toys - like Xbox Live integration, friends lists, groups, messaging, fighting, and motorbikes.

So, do all that and you could be playing the next MMOG from Richard Garriott, the legendary brain behind Ultima Online.

Pop over to our Tabula Rasa gamepage to find out much more, including an interview with the man himself.

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About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds.

Read more articles from Robert by visiting the Robert Purchese archive page.

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Comments (25) Latest comment 5 years ago

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  • macksed #1 5 years ago

    this is living

  • buzz #2 5 years ago

    It most probably still wont successfully patch up for most people, probably.

  • TheUnionFrag #3 5 years ago

    Waste time on Tabula Rasa or waste time drinking beer?

    I choose beer [again]

  • mingster #4 5 years ago

    patched first time for me

  • mrbandersnatch #5 5 years ago

    I hear they are calling it "Richard Garriott's Tabula Rasa" so that everyone will know who to blame when this turkey emerges from the oven.
    Edited by 1 at 29/08/07 @ 16:34

  • [DVDF]Gooner #6 5 years ago

    There are thousands of keys left.

    Think about it....why?

  • BastoJ #7 5 years ago

    Is this worth the download?

  • 4thVariety #8 5 years ago

    10 Find creature "lvl < your level"
    20 press tab to activate autoaim
    30 hold left mouse button to kill
    40 goto 10

  • Pulsar_t #9 5 years ago

    Tabula Rasa?

  • Masarin #10 5 years ago

    Einstürzende Neubauteeeeen!

  • Whizzo #11 5 years ago

    Tabula Rasa?

    It's Latin for "clean slate".

  • TheUnionFrag #12 5 years ago

    I think we should donate them to poor starving African children.

    "Because we care".

  • smelly #13 5 years ago

    lord brit needs to go back to single player rpgs.

  • Lim-Dul #14 5 years ago

    Tabula Rasa sucks. Read my comments on the last article concerning the beta. :-P

    10 Find creature "lvl < your level"
    20 press tab to activate autoaim
    30 hold left mouse button to kill
    40 goto 10

    So true... And do not forget the "lvl < your level" part since all other creatures will pwn you in a matter of seconds.

  • kallenai #15 5 years ago

    Good idea fatally flawed, its being rushed in the same way Vanguard was pushed out the door in its underwear, half ready and with lots of different ideas trying to compete against each other.

  • mcmothercruncher #16 5 years ago

    Can't give 'em away. Oh, but they are. But they can't.

  • Balboa #17 5 years ago

    This beta is a lot more polished than the last; I'm a bit more confident the game will be reasonably bug-free at launch if they keep this up. Nice to see they've moved crafting to the base tier too.

    "20 press tab to activate autoaim" - that just locks your reticule, chief. You still need to aim to hit properly. And holding down the mouse button is a great way of overheating your weapon (not to mention some enemies, like the miasma, have defenses that mess that plan up.)

    As for the "lvl < your level" part, I had no problem killing multiple orange mobs - probably because I didn't just stand there holding down the mouse button.

  • Lim-Dul #18 5 years ago

    C'mon, Balboa, for anybody that has even SEEN a shooter this game doesn't require ANY skill whatsoever. It's just a bloody grindfest... I wish it lived up to its hype but it simply doesn't.
    Edited by 1 at 30/08/07 @ 19:14

  • Balboa #19 5 years ago

    It requires no skill? And yet you said "do not forget the "lvl < your level" part since all other creatures will pwn you in a matter of seconds."

    Requiring no skill, and having no skill are two entirely different things.

  • Lim-Dul #20 5 years ago

    They will kill you because they are designed to kill you and you can't do shit about it. No matter how good or how bad you are some creatures will be simply too easy to kill and some too hard - and the ones that SEEM to pose a challenge simply win or lose by some virtual dice rolling. I mean - it's so idiotic that the game rolls dice to see if you hit something or not - it has nothing to do with your aiming skill or anything. You aim at something and hope for the best - you may be dead on target and yet miss because the game decided it is time for you to miss.
    Tabula Rasa is one of the most overhyped, overrated games this year. It's all the more annoying because it has Richard Garriott's name plastered all over it (even the friggin installation directory is "Richard Garriott's Tabula Rasa";) and claims to give you much, MUCH more than it can deliver.
    And we haven't even touched the subject that 90% of the game are FedEx-quests. Or how unimaginative the equipment is - especially the armor. Switch your whatnot armor v4 for the whatnot armor v5 - whoohoo! What an upgrade. Ah - and the graphics are crap - the game doesn't even have proper anti-aliasing. It only has this poor-man's anti-aliasing in the form of bloom, which makes you feel as if your sight was fading although you still see pixellated models and rough edges everywhere. Yet the game manages to run absolutely horrible, even on a high-end computer... Gimme a break... Of course there will be fanboys who'll find this game superb, mainly because they haven't seen many good MMORPGs but that's not my problem...

  • Balboa #21 5 years ago

    What amuses me most is that you honestly don't seem to realise that this isn't an FPS, and is in fact an RPG. Anyway, take a deep breath, and play a different game. You seem rather emotional.

  • Lim-Dul #22 5 years ago

    Yes, it's an RPG, or rather a MMORPG that claims to revolutionize the genre and yet is one of the most generic piles of crap I've ever seen if you take away its (weak) Sci-Fi setting and see through all the hype. Like I said before - you can read my comments on the last two articles about the closed beta since I don't want to list all the arguments against Tabula Rasa a second time. I really do think that the time I've spent on playing the beta (and I got quite far in it) was completely wasted... And I only went on because I had quite high hopes for the game and waited for it to finally show its brilliance somewhere... Well - if I haven't anything likable, polished, original or fun about Tabula Rasa in so many wasted hours, then I won't find it later for sure...

  • Wendelius #23 5 years ago

    Love the comnments in this thread. Did you all guys somehow get a NDA free beta or are you just that unprepared to live up to the agreement you made when you accepted it? Whether the game is good or bad is neither here nor there.

  • Darkedge #24 5 years ago

    you'd think that Tabula Rasa had murdered Lim-Dul's mother and then raped their father considering the amount of hatred they have for this game. I mean why are they still wasting time slagging it off yet again - Do they work for SOE or something??

    I'm enjoying the beta and totally disagree with him on the lack of skill and the variety of the missions and so does the press for this game. I'd advise anyone to check it out themselves as it is something different and fun.
    Make you own mind up and check it out, not as if it costs anything.

  • Lim-Dul #25 5 years ago

    Make you own mind up and check it out, not as if it costs anything.

    Sadly, in future it will...