Hey everyone,
In addition to the Free Weekend that’s going on now on the Oculus Store, they are featuring us in their Gold Rush promotion, with more than $28,000 in prizes. Here’s how that’s going to work from our end:
- In order to participate in the Gold Rush event, you must be online playing the game at any point between 3 PM and 4 PM Central Time (which is 1 PM to 2 PM Pacific Time) tomorrow, Saturday, April 21st.
- If you are online for the event, you will receive the Gold Rush achievement in-game, and you will also receive a special limited edition Gold Rush cosmetic cape!
- Anyone on either platform (Steam or Oculus) is eligible to receive the OrbusVR achievement from us and the cape. However, there is no Steam “Gold Rush” achievement in terms of the stores, only an Oculus Store one.
- You must be logged in via the Oculus Store during the event to get the Oculus Store achievement. And you must receive the Oculus Store achievement to be entered into their drawing for the Gold Rush prizes they are offering.
So, to recap:
If you have a Rift, be sure to login during the event via the Oculus Store, even if you normally login via Steam, by taking advantage of the Free Weekend. Then you’ll get the Oculus Store achievement and be eligible for the prize drawings.
If you have a Vive, Windows MR, etc., you can still login and get the in-game achievement as well as the Gold Rush cape, but you will not be eligible for the Gold Rush prizes from Oculus.
Part of the reason we are doing this event is to see how many people we can get online at once. We are anticipating based on previous Oculus Gold Rush events that as many as 1,000 concurrents (or even more) could be online, so this would be a historic event for the OrbusVR community. We’ll see you Saturday!