Don't Delete Facebook Or You'll Lose All Oculus Games For Good

i'm not getting one unless it's decoupled from FB.

This is another reason not to buy any oculus products. No facebook products for that matter either. Facebook is toxic and really not a place to save games or anything of value really. I refuse to have a facebook account. Dumb move by facebook. This prevents hundreds of thousands of people from getting oculus. But facebook is desperate to get back members who deleted their accounts in the last five years or so. Especially after the Cambridge Analytica scandal with the subsequent, Zuckerberg speaking in front of congress about facebook privacy. Good one facebook, send your creepiest guy to tell congress your company isn't creepy!

They can keep their device as I will not spend money on something that is tied to an program in order to use it, I find the requirement hideous and sinister as there may be an reason they want people to maintain their accounts so they can spy on folks through the device maybe?

With most accounts you can change your email and not lose purchases.

once linked your Facebook account supersedes your Quest account? This makes Facebook tracking your history very easy and this can include GPS tracking. IMO this can become a very powerful tool for Facebook and create more privacy issues for the consumer.

Changing your Facebook account you lose access to your games.

Deactivating your Facebook account you lose access to your purchases.

Deleting your Facebook you lose your purchases for good.

I would advise making a fresh new Facebook account for your Quest account and not use a preexisting account and never use the new Facebook on another device, if that is possible.

This starts with Quest but most likely any future device Facebook owns will have the same requirement. Terminator Genisys?

This is one of the most ridiculous things I’ve ever heard.

Wow. I was just reading that people who are using 2 headsets at once on the same Facebook account are being banned. Facebook REALLY wants to pad their user numbers. And they still haven't addressed how young kids are supposed to use the headset if parents don't want them to have a Facebook account. You have to be 13 to have an account so I guess parents are supposed to lie and make an account for their little kid just to use the headset. This is beyond stupid.

Thanks Facebook for give me another reason not to sign up, or use any of your products and services.

They will end up getting busted by ACCC in Australia if they try that anyway as once you buy a product here you are entitled to use it whenever you wish.

Hot trash. I wish it absolute demise.

lmao another reason VR and facebook can suck my balls.

Imagine buying a new fridge, and filling it with all sorts of delicious food. And then one day, months or years later, the fridge maker comes along and says if you don't sign up to their online forums -- where you must use your real name, and give them all sorts of personal information -- they'll stop your fridge from cooling, thereby spoiling your food (food you paid for) and rendering the fridge useless. There'd be a class action lawsuit the same day as the announcement.

There's no reason for this mandate. If you own an Oculus, you already have an Oculus account that your purchases are tied to. Forcing users to merge with FB, use a social media platform they may have no interest in, and then taking away their purchases if they don't comply? That's a shakedown at best, and extortion at worse.

Nobody likes a bully. And FB's mafia strongarm tactics -- especially after expressly promising they wouldn't require FB for Oculus -- show just what kind of company they are.

I'm confused. First they say delete Facebook and I'll love it. Then they turn around and say don't delete it.

Took them long enough to start using it to data mine people.

Facebook and social Media have become so rotted since MySpace almost 20 years ago.

This is good to know if i ever was torn between Oculus/Vive..

Don’t you also lose your Steam library if you delete your Steam account? Why is this news?

Valve Index is a better device anyway, so no big loss

Non-issue. Deleting all of these things is already the best option.

One more reason for people not to buy the device. I don't care about Facebook but I have no choice but to have a page for my business. That's just how it is these days. But making me have a Facebook account so I can use a VR headset is just plain stupid. Its not like they make money off of someone with a Facebook account they never look at except to use a headset so I don't see the reason for this. Do they think people who don't like Facebook will start checking out what relatives are having for dinner or what stupid thing their dog is doing so Facebook can make a few nickles off of an ad the person ignored?

Hopefully people will stop talking about these horrible devices, both hardware and software.

Its ONE LCD ffs! Wanna talk limited FoV?

lmfao, this deal gets better and better.

I'd say that's a lawsuit waiting to happen. You lose your games if you decide your over social interactions on FB? F that. That's why I'll keep supporting Valve's platform. This article just made up my mind.

I was legitimately interested in one of these until I found out you couldn't use it without facebook, as I deactivated mine long ago I'd never be able to play anything.... Only option is the psvr upgrade I guese since Microsoft still hasn't committed to Xbox vr.

Good thing I never went out and got one of these. Facebook wont be coming back into my life.