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You are probably right--but I don't understand why they are pushing this aside from wanting to further their Facebook application. > The reason they are gettin
by Gunax 6y ago
You are probably right--but I don't understand why they are pushing this aside from wanting to further their Facebook application.
> The reason they are getting people to create accounts, which is obvious to anyone who has actually used an Oculus, is that the multiplayer matchmaking story right now is horrible, and it absolutely definitely needs to be replaced with something logical with cohesive friends lists. It is the exact reason Facebook is a nice way to login to mobile multiplayer games.
Can you elaborate? What's the issue with multiplayer games?
I own a Rift and I play (mostly Echo Combat) online... I don't see what's wrong with the games or why a facebook link would make it any better.
- bryan_w 6y agoHaving multiple login systems is an integrity/spam disaster waiting to happen. You have to reimplement whatever detectors and filters twice and hope that nothing messes up and lets Jim the perv who was kicked from messenger move onto courting Billy on the quest.
- derangedHorse 6y agoWhy should Jim’s history on Messenger affect his account on Oculus? If Oculus accounts truly were kept separate than whatever mechanism Jim used to find Billy with his Oculus account, he could’ve also used to find Billy on any other communication platform. I saw one comment in a previous post who echoes my sentiment perfectly: Facebook has not only become a universal identity provider but is now providing universal authorization, which is a problem.
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- jiofih 6y agoWhy isn’t HN offering Login with Facebook here right now? Would you be excited about that?
- postingawayonhn 6y ago> I don't understand why they are pushing this aside from wanting to further their Facebook application. Because they want to build an integrated services and hardware ecosystem just like Apple, Microsoft, and Google.