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Koch Media and Sony Online Entertainment have set sail on the Pirates of the Burning Sea open beta.

To celebrate we will be drinking rum, tickling our fancy, plundering ports and offering you scurvy dogs a free pass to the testing. After you swab the decks and shiver my timbers, arr?

All you have to do to claim your free open beta key is board our Eurogamers community ship and pop one in your sack of booty. Simply log in and head over that way for your treasure, or quickly register to join the hassle-free voyage of a lifetime or something.

Pirates of the Burning Sea is persistent online world based around muskets, cutlasses, beards and parrots. It lets you journey back to the golden age of piracy in the eighteenth century and hobble across rolling decks, barking orders at real-life friends as you set sail on the open waters in search of your pieces of eight.

It all looks rather good, too, as we told you in our recent preview. Pirates had to offer new things because it was far from traditional high fantasy and its staple dungeon crawling, and serve new riches it has, prompting us to call it "an MMO to stand out from the same-faced crowd".

Dock at our Pirates of the Burning Sea preview to find out much more.

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Zoink #1 4 years ago

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"This file is only available to Fileplanet subscribers"

i.e. you need to pay booty to download

/edit downloading the separate parts seems to work, but fast it ain't

Edited by 1 at 07/12/07 @ 13:09
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spimmy #2 4 years ago

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saying you have to pay for the parts as well
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Drone #3 4 years ago

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You can sign up for a free account. But fileplanet though......euch!
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That_Happy_Cat #4 4 years ago

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yeah that's putting me off too

Edited by 1 at 07/12/07 @ 13:32
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Zoink #5 4 years ago

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[link url=http://www.fileplanet.com/182856/dow nload/Pirates-of-the-Burning-Sea-Client-(Part-1-of-3)
]http://ww w.fileplanet.com/182856/downloa...[/link]
[link url=http://www.fileplanet.com/182857/dow nload/Pirates-of-the-Burning-Sea-Client-(Part-2-of-3)
]http://ww w.fileplanet.com/182857/downloa...[/link]
http://ww w.fileplanet.com/182858/downloa...
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That_Happy_Cat #6 4 years ago

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GAH! you know what... screw this negativity! I'm going to build me a pirate as soon as can be! GAH!

/edited for even more pirate talk

Edited by 1 at 07/12/07 @ 13:41
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TheWretched #7 4 years ago

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Pfft...

I am a) nor paying anything to fileplanet and b) neither am I going to wait for it to start to download...
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Hypercube #8 4 years ago

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I'm going to start it downloading tonight, go out and see some Led Zeppelin impersonators do their thing and by the time I get back, I hope it will have downloaded. I'll have had some grog by then, and will be ready to yo-ho-ho with the best of them!
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Carlo #9 4 years ago

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Fileplanet?

FFS!

Anyone got a mirror/torrent for this?
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LosCapitan #10 4 years ago

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A little hunting around and you can find it elsewhere on mirror... Ausgamers.com appears to have one...
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Carlo #11 4 years ago

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I salute you LosCapitan
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xyuppiex #12 4 years ago

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Here's a european mirror http://www. fz.se/filer/archive.fz?id=4953
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konnsky #13 4 years ago

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got the key, downloading the client..
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Foxis #14 4 years ago

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Downloading as well...
Will be interesting to see if this works well under Boot Camp...
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Hypercube #15 4 years ago

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What? A 313 hour update? I beg your pardon?
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evilidler #16 4 years ago

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It actually took a few tries before Sony's Station account pages recognised my cut & pasted key. If you get any messages saying it's not a valid key, try and try again.
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Freb #17 4 years ago

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[link url=ht tp://www.ausgamers.com/files/download/html/32408
]http://ww w.ausgamers.com/files/download/...[/link]

Yarr!
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Goolz #18 4 years ago

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http://ww w.burningsea.com/beta/install/P...
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