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I was thinking of buying an Occulus Rift, and Facebook buying Occulus is the thing that guaranteed I'd never buy one. People said it wouldn't be a problem, and
by Vrondi 5y ago
I was thinking of buying an Occulus Rift, and Facebook buying Occulus is the thing that guaranteed I'd never buy one. People said it wouldn't be a problem, and now you must log in with a Facebook account in order to use your Occulus hardware. No way.
- CodeGlitch 5y agoIt made me sad too especially when John Carmack was also dragged* into it. * Not sure how he feels about it, but I get the impression he's there for the pay cheque to work on more interesting side projects like AI.
- JohnFen 5y agoI'm sure that John Carmack is crying on top of his money mountain.
- baby 5y agoI advise creating a dummy account and buying the oculus quest 2 instead. Worth it :)
- mkl 5y agoThere are quite a few reports of people's oculus-only dummy accounts being banned: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=oculus+facebook+banned+dummy+account&atb=v279-1__&ia=web https://duckduckgo.com/?q=oculus+facebook+banned+dummy+accou... It's pretty expensive for something you could be thrown out of at any moment, and it's a lot of money to give to Facebook.
- baby 5y agoMost likely anti spam: https://www.oculus.com/blog/some-tips-for-using-facebook-accounts-on-oculus/ https://www.oculus.com/blog/some-tips-for-using-facebook-acc...
- mkl 5y agoI'm not so sure about that: > Please don’t create a second Facebook account > Avoid creating a second Facebook account