Stormland pulled from sale?

[bigmike20vt]

Hi

I have some credit on my account and have been waiting for either a sale on Stormland or a discount store voucher that I get sent from time to time ..... however I did a search today and stormlands is not there.  googling directly for it finds the store page but it says it is unavailable 

is this a temporary issue or has stormland gone the way of mountain goat mountain and other games removed from sale?

thanks.

[nalex66]

Seems like it was a glitch. I just tried, and I can see the "buy for a friend" option, and clicking the link, I can initiate a purchase. I didn't complete the purchase since I already own the game, but it was in my cart, with the final price showing, only needing my PIN to finalize the transaction.

[shogunmn]

I believe it's still there: https://www.oculus.com/stormland/

The problem you are seeing is what I see for nearly every app. It's really frustrating! if if your not logged it should show up on the browser. The ones I have purchased are all also greyed out like that. It goes back to the store being completely broken unfortunately still. 

[shogunmn]

Agreed. I have still have this issue for EVERY single purchase I have ever made. Greyed out and no library. For the apps that do have a button, as soon as it downloads it vanished after the app closes and looks just like the screen shot you added. 

[shogunmn]

Extremely disappointed. It's already been a month of waiting for an update. I hope this doesn't take "months" longer :(. 6 years worth of content is gone for me. 

[MetaQuestSupport]

Hi there, thanks for contributing to the thread! We understand how frustrating it feels not having the store working properly. What some people who felt the same way found was that a factory reset might be a solution to this. If you're open to it here are steps on how to perform one. If that doesn't work please send us a support ticket here. 

[bigmike20vt]

thanks. I can confirm its back.   got to laugh. support got back to me on the thread in games and apps.   they really need to improve their internal communication and also learn the difference between PCVR and quest titles  😕

[RuneSR2]

Agreed - my "Purchased" icon is back - all looks normal. 

When I tell others that Stormland was one of the games that made my buy the RTX 3090 many think I'm joking. But I'm not - not the slightest. Stormland is close to my best-ever VR experience. Alyx worked perfectly using my GTX 1080, but Stormland was a different challenge. 

Stormland is much more demanding than Alyx, in fact I'd say more than twice as demanding - and 90 fps were not possible with the GTX 1080, even with no real-time shadows. Those real-time shadows require quite a lot of calculations - but I was using Rift CV1 ss 2.0 and ultra settings - so real-time shadows were a pipe dream. 

To my amazement, with the RTX 3090 I suddenly got solid 90 fps with CV1 ss 2.0 using ultra settings - and to top that I could even enable those precious real-time shadows! That was a dream come true for me - but I don't expect others to understand that 😉 

Getting worried about Stormland, I just jumped in using the CV1 - and everything still worked flawlessly. I'm getting my as* *cough!" my behind kicked in this level - gotta get me some bigger guns 🤔 

I just took these shots using the Rift CV1 ss 2.0 - ultra settings with real-time shadows:

Those hands look pretty awesome 🙂

A clearer view of the above image - no hand 🙂 The light looks very HDR-ish to me, who needs that PSVR2 lol 

Some vegetation - and an awesome polygon count - and check the view distance

Maybe a boring shot - but there're very detailed real-time shadows in solid 90 fps 😁  

This image didn't turn out the way I wanted - but check the background - the view distance is vast. See how extremely detailed the ground textures look? And those lovely flowers 🙂 Flowers and the grass have real-time shadows 🤓 

I consider Stormland a great gift from Zuckerberg - no way did Facebook sell enough copies to cover the gigantic development costs. We should not ask for a reduced price on these games - even at $40 these games (like Asgard's Wrath and Lone Echo 2) are gifts and worth more than twice that amount. 2c. 

[shogunmn]

Ugh I can't wait to jump back in :(. Those screenshots are incredible! 

[shogunmn]

I am still rocking the GTX 1080 and it's been ok. I am very tempted to build a new rig with a RTX 3090 but also am considering waiting until next generation. I think we will have a lot of announcements coming after the PSVR 2 announcement this year. 

[Ryanality]

Hi everyone, as @bigmike20vt and @RuneSR2 have already confirmed, Stormland is back in the Rift store. This wasn't related to some of the issues the team has been working with.