Huxley's closed beta now open to everyone via Fileplanet
by Seraphina Brennan 
Aug 4th 2009 at 1:00PM
Filed under: Betas, Sci-fi, Huxley, News items, MMOFPS
We understand your confusion, but it's best not to question it. Fileplanet is giving out Huxley: The Dystopia closed beta keys to all account holders now, not just their subscribers. A couple quick button presses is now all it takes to find yourself braving the lunar apocalypse with all of your friends!
A small note of instruction: if you get your beta key from Fileplanet, you will have to still make an ijji.com account for the closed beta test. You can do that right over at the Huxley closed beta page without much fuss at all. Now go forth and kick those Sapiens all the way back to the early days of evolution.
Update: As so many commenters have pointed out, this offer is only available for the US and Canada. European gamers, it appears, are locked out of this promotion being offered by Fileplanet.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 3)
TommyB said on 1:07PM 8-04-2009
Everyone in the US and Canada anyway.
http://www.fileplanet.com/promotions/huxley/beta/restricted.aspx
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Mads said on 1:08PM 8-04-2009
This is only available to US and Canada.. Sadly :(
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Shogun said on 1:10PM 8-04-2009
US & Canada only.
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Shogun said on 1:10PM 8-04-2009
Late with the comment as always ^^
leej said on 1:22PM 8-04-2009
US & Canada Only and the main reason why I don't maintain a filenorthamericaandcanadaonly account...
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jmckinney71 said on 1:40PM 8-04-2009
I AM in US and I keep getting that page as well. Won't let me proceed.
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Neurasthenic said on 1:47PM 8-04-2009
Go to fileplanet's main beta page and click through from there.
Neurasthenic said on 1:46PM 8-04-2009
Cool, I'm gonna give this a shot. Waiting in the download queue right now.
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Amana said on 1:44PM 8-04-2009
Ironically, their download page states:
"Open To All Users"
..whilst simultaneously stating:
"The FilePlanet beta test for Huxley: The Dystopia is only available to players in US and Canada."
Erm, yeh.
Anyhow, for anyone wishing to view the different modes of play (PVE, PVP, Battlegrounds, etc) this video does a good job of walking thru the crux of the game:
http://g4tv.com/videos/37469/GDC-09-Huxley-Walkthrough-Off-Screen/?quality=hd
Also, threadjack, but Massively don't seem to be reporting it:
http://www.destructoid.com/final-fantasy-xiv-won-t-have-experience-points-142649.phtml
"According to producer Hiromichi Tanaka and director Nobuaki Komoto, the upcoming offering won’t have experience points or traditional leveling. Characters will progress through the game’s job system"
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Archipelagos said on 2:15PM 8-04-2009
Thanks for the info on FF.
Mads said on 1:49PM 8-04-2009
To those who live outside US and Canada you can use an IP Hider, to get into the beta. I got a key that way.
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TommyB said on 4:42PM 8-04-2009
lol thanks for suggesting that, it totally worked!
infinityv said on 2:03PM 8-04-2009
Thanks for the heads up Massively!
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double9s said on 2:10PM 8-04-2009
Is there an open world to this game? In that video Amana shared (thanks) they showed the character grab a quest in the city and then warp to what I'm assuming is an instanced quest location. I hope it's not all like that. This trend of MMOs getting overly instance-y is pretty annoying.
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Infexion said on 2:27PM 8-04-2009
"they showed the character grab a quest in the city and then warp to what I'm assuming is an instanced quest location. I hope it's not all like that"
It's like that.
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UltimateQ said on 3:35PM 8-04-2009
I'll be honest. I don't recall ever hearing about this game. this is the first time I've heard of it.
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Bryan said on 3:44PM 8-04-2009
Is this an MMOFPS? Sure looks that way to me.
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ttvp said on 4:03PM 8-04-2009
I'm not trying to flame anybody or anything, just throwing my opinion into the hat.
I am of the belief that Huxley is nothing more than an extremely elaborate hoax. I have to admit I don't have much of a leg to stand on, but throughout the entire beta process so far I have yet to be able to run the game thanks to gameguard error 124. I've spent countless hours trying to troubleshoot the problem, scouring every page of the message board, trying virtually everything suggested (aside from reinstalling the operating system, screw that) to absolutely no avail.
Yeah we've seen tons of pretty videos and screenshots, but I have yet to know anybody personally who has seen the interior of the game beyond a "patcher" window. I have reached out to acquaintances through real life and warcraft and the like, and of the 10 who have attempted the beta, not a single one of them have gotten further than error 124. So I'm pretty much 0 for 11 right now. That's pretty bad odds, especially considering the vast differences in everybody's hardware and software across the board. Also I run both Windows XP 32-bit and Vista 64-bit on the same computer, which couldn't be more different in how they run things.
Yes this whole thing is a pretty nutty conspiracy theory, especially when you take into account the entire message board of people (supposedly) giving their feedback on things in the game. Why would they do something like that? Again, you've got me. All I know is with all this time spent trying to resolve one issue, you tend to let your mind wander and try to find some rational explanation for why there's a beta test that nobody can play. Again, this is just a wacky theory, but it makes the most sense to me right now. If you've had success with getting the game to run, congratulations! You may have just proven me wrong, but you could also be a plant. We'll see what happens at launch, I'm game!
tl;dr - Huxley doesn't exist, prove me wrong.
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Colin Brennan said on 4:11PM 8-04-2009
Played it every night this week on Windows Vista. Might just be your setup. Only had some of the bugs that people confirmed on the forums show up.
Aganazer said on 4:25PM 8-04-2009
I played for a few hours. Besides being very grindy and not have ANY PvE variety, it was pretty cool. Some of the environments and missions were well done.