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Deleting or Deactivating your Facebook Account Does the Same to your Oculus Account

posted by martyb on Tuesday October 27 2020, @04:45AM   Printer-friendly
from the strings-attached dept.

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for c0lo:

Deleting or deactivating your Facebook does the same to your Oculus account:

Facebook does not want you to stop using Facebook, it seems, because if you deactivate your account for a little break you'll also lose access to your Oculus Profile. Perhaps worse, if you delete your Facebook account you'll also delete your app purchases and achievements. "You will no longer be able to return any apps," says Facebook, "and will lose any existing store credits." So buyer beware: If you purchase an Oculus Quest 2 you'll need a Facebook account, and that account will have to be active at all times and, presumably, in good standing if you want to use your Quest 2.

[...] First reported and confirmed by UploadVR, this is just the latest of the controversies surrounding Facebook's decision to tie future Oculus VR Headset use to an otherwise-unrelated Facebook account. Users of past headsets who have not tied their Oculus account to Facebook can continue using those accounts until 2023.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 28 2020, @12:26AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 28 2020, @12:26AM (#1069615)

    Almost all of the VR titles I've seen so far look wholly unimpressive and dated in 2D. Can a rig purpose-built for VR not handle better visuals? By Star Trek VR, do you mean Star Trek Bridge Crew by Ubisoft? From an AAA publisher, I would have expected more eye candy compared to the various indie titles...

    I expect when experiencing immersion, it *feels* a whole lot better but why do all these games look like Pre-Crysis tech?

    I've yet to try on a Vive, have taken a longer break from gaming and I'm unsure when and if I'll pick it back up. VR is currently the only itch I feel Iike I'll want to scratch. The games industry mostly evolved away from what I liked about it when it was smaller.

    And no, I do not want your lootboxes. If that was my type of thing, I'd be in a casino instead of on a PC. Srsly WTF?