Oculus is making Facebook accounts mandatory - even for existing users

[WYP]

Oculus is needlessly limiting its own reach.



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[Nogginthenog]

There are two issues with this.

First, its monetization of your gaming despite already paying a heft cost for the equipment. The reason to do this is so they can monitor your gaming habits, record the data and sell it on.

If they want to do that, then provide the equipment for free, don't charge people to buy stuff, then put use barriers in place so you can continue to profit from them.

Second is the nature of facebook. They ban accounts all the time, often for little reason, and often for political views.
I may not agree with those views, but in what world is it acceptable to potentially lose access to equipment you own, and games you've bought, because an algorithm at facebook HQ decides someone is saying something they shouldn't, entirely unrelated to their gaming at all?

Its not just facebook and oculus, this idea that despite paying fortunes for hardware, someone else still has control of whether you can use it or not is anti-consumer and patently ridiculous.

 

[KingNosser]

I'd expect to see a lot of these on ebay and while I do use facebook it's only for personal friends and family i.e people I know in the real world, but even I wouldn't want to be locked into it even more when it's meant to be something i'd have a passion for and enjoy as a major part of my life.

I think this is a really bad thing and people that own them have a right to be disgruntled, i can see valve index preorders going up already

 

[Greenback]

I can see a lot of fake FB accounts being setup.

Me and my son share the oculus account, and I'm going to bet there are many parents who do the same, so it's a choice of giving access to my FB account or setup a fake 1, by 2023 my quest will probably be ready for replacement, so if they go this route I'll more than lightly get steam or htc because having Ad's when I want to play a game is definitely a no no

 

[smilertoo]

hmmm

Will facebook be offering refunds to those who dont want their every move monitored by them? Surely this has privacy law issues in the EU.

 

[hmmblah]

I do not use Facebook at all and never will. If they make this mandatory I won't be buying another Oculus. I'm with Greenback, looks like I'll go with Valve or another competitor.

 

[Dicehunter]

Zucc can go ingest a bag of johnsons.

There are two issues with this.

First, its monetization of your gaming despite already paying a heft cost for the equipment. The reason to do this is so they can monitor your gaming habits, record the data and sell it on.

If they want to do that, then provide the equipment for free, don't charge people to buy stuff, then put use barriers in place so you can continue to profit from them.

Second is the nature of facebook. They ban accounts all the time, often for little reason, and often for political views.
I may not agree with those views, but in what world is it acceptable to potentially lose access to equipment you own, and games you've bought, because an algorithm at facebook HQ decides someone is saying something they shouldn't, entirely unrelated to their gaming at all?

Its not just facebook and oculus, this idea that despite paying fortunes for hardware, someone else still has control of whether you can use it or not is anti-consumer and patently ridiculous.

We've been heading into this dystopian future for a while now and it's only going to get worse as time goes by as it doesn't matter who's in power, Left wing or right wing, They're all power mad, Highly corrupt and companies like Facebook flourish under them.

 

[Warchild]

I do not use Facebook at all and never will. If they make this mandatory I won't be buying another Oculus. I'm with Greenback, looks like I'll go with Valve or another competitor.

Revive ftw

 

[Digikid]

Well screw that then. They can shove Facebook up where the sun don't shine.


Time for Index then as it is the ONLY good headset available now. Won't buy any HTCrap.

 

[looz]

It has been semi-mandatory for a while. You can't do anything social without a linked Facebook account. No friends or multiplayer functionality.


It's a shame since Quest is such a brilliant piece of kit - but Facebook is pushing hard to make it a PoS. At least they're low on stock everywhere so I can sell mine at a decent enough price.