Massively's Fallen Earth trial key giveaway and in-game events

by Krystalle Voecks Oct 23rd 2009 at 2:30PM

Filed under: Sci-fi, Fallen Earth, Events, in-game, News items, Hands-on, Massively Event Coverage, Giveaways

As we mentioned last week, we have quite a treat for you today as part of the Fallen Earth Halloween event. We're happy to present 2,000 trial keys for anyone interested in trying out this indie post-apocalyptic game before forking over the cash. This special trial key is good for 15 days, which will bring you through their entire Days of the Dead Halloween event, as well as our own upcoming in-game events.

To get your trial key, simply visit our giveaway page and follow the posted directions. For more information on our in-game events - including a great developer interview - keep reading below.

If you're a veteran Fallen Earth player, or you're just looking for a big party to attend while using your new free trial key, we have the perfect event for you. Tomorrow, October 24th, at 7pm EDT, meet up with us in-game to party with your fellow clones and some members of the Fallen Earth team. Players will need to head to a special destination outside of Boneclaw, at location 4030331 3269656. In order to find this location, players should type /waypoint and enter the above coordinates in the box to create a waypoint to that location. As an incentive for getting there early, we'll be firing up a special Days of the Dead dance party in cooperation with Post Apoc Radio. DJ Apseth (read: my Fallen Earth alter-ego) will be on the air from 6:00 PM Eastern spinning spooky tunes and giving away some free stuff until the beginning of the developer chat.

As another fun way to bring the developer chat to the community, our questions will come from you! Yes, that's right, we'll be asking 10 questions hand-picked from the comments below to Marie "Aro Sei" Croall, Content Team Lead. So if there's something you really want to know about what the Fallen Earth team is planning for the future, or how the game came to be, be sure to get those questions in before 4:00 PM tomorrow (Saturday, October 24) afternoon and then check out the chat.

As if that weren't enough fun for you, we'll be holding a Massively meet-up and dance party next Wednesday, October 28th at 9pm EDT. This time, Post Apoc Radio will be providing the Halloween jams and we'll have even more in-game items to toss around to lucky attendees. There will be apocalyptic trivia and more, so be sure to show up and get your zombie-killing groove on, Fallen Earth style!

Tags: days-of-the-dead, fallen-earth, fallen-earth-llc, free-trial, giveaway, halloween2009, icarus-studios, in-game-event, post-apoc-radio, post-apocalyptic, trial-key, zombies

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 3)

Pingles said on 2:35PM 10-23-2009

First come, first serve! Nice!

Ayonyx said on 2:39PM 10-23-2009

@Sera thank you :D

Halldorr said on 2:40PM 10-23-2009

Was thinking of trying this out but the minimum specs are like exactly my processing power lol. I guess it's time to upgrade again :)

2DruNk2FraG said on 2:46PM 10-23-2009

Got a code. Thanks!

generikb said on 2:54PM 10-23-2009

hey fantastic...just what I needed to help me decide whether or not to try this sucker out :D

MCRaider said on 3:15PM 10-23-2009

Got my code, was not going to pick up the game but a 15-day trial is not bad at all.

LaughingTarget said on 3:17PM 10-23-2009

Thanks for the code. I was on the fence about this game and unwilling to pay to try it out.

LaughingTarget said on 4:44PM 10-23-2009

Wow, seriously lame on the part of the Fallen Earth team here. The patcher is claiming their server will take 11 days to fully patch the game. I hope this speeds up.

MCRaider said on 4:54PM 10-23-2009

My thoughts exactly.

Really FE? Really? a 583MB download but like 4GB in patching?

It would not take that long to download 4GB. Patchers should be just that, for patching, not for downloading a whole game.

pogger said on 5:09PM 10-23-2009

Had the same problem. I think it was a firewall or virus software issue for me at first. I re-booted and now I'm down to just under 5 days... at least I'll have 10 days to play! Haha.

Pingles said on 7:32PM 10-23-2009

It has to be the most depressingly inaccurate time estimator ever.

I went from 4 days 20 hours to 2 days 19 hours in about 15 minutes.

And the Updater stops responding to my system soon after starting it. I think it is still loading it just does not update the screen and shows as unresponsive in my task manager.

And yet...I'm excited about being able to play...

LaughingTarget said on 10:07PM 10-23-2009

Well, this thing is clearly as good as a Win95 download time estimator. I've got 5 minutes left now.

Tristik said on 8:25PM 10-25-2009

Lots of people had problems with long estimates, and patcher lock-ups. Most people got through it fine and just the estimations were off. Others (like myself), had to find a different patcher download on the official FE forums. Sorry I don't have the link, I had to do forum searches for it.

Or, just keep restarting it, it'll get done eventually. Not the best option, but it does work. On a side note, only the initial patching has done this as far as I've seen.

MCRaider said on 10:26AM 10-24-2009

They must have one horrid server to be running the patcher off of.

CO is having a free weekend next week and so I downloaded that, not only was the file a bit bigger (total wise) I was already at 10% in the first 10 minutes.

However FE will be done soon enough, left it on over night but I do not think it made to much progress.

Aganazer said on 3:34PM 10-23-2009

I already got all mine from Ten Ton Hammer earlier today. You're kinda late to the party this time Massively.

pogger said on 4:19PM 10-23-2009

Um... late to the game in giving away 2000 free trial keys? Whatever. You'll be downgraded soon enough.

Thanks for the key Massively! I've been wanting to try this game out for a while now.

Davy said on 4:01PM 10-23-2009

I've been watching this game from afar, and a two week trial is just what I needed. I'm the kinda guy who doesn't buy new games right off the bad without a free trial first.

Bryan said on 4:41PM 10-23-2009

Finally, a chance to try this game out. thanks Massively!

Bryan said on 4:55PM 10-23-2009

Ok, nevermind, I tried to use the key and it says this key has already been used!

What the....?!

I give up.

Bryan said on 4:59PM 10-23-2009

Used Ten Ton Hammer instead, thanks to the above poster for reminding me.

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