Don't require Facebook for social features
Your recent demand that all social users engage through Facebook is a bad decidion. I will not allow my children to be exposed thru Facebook so you can make a few pennies in marketing kickbacks. We will never participate in an Oculus social media again and I will actively campaign online against you from this point on.
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Fri13
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I have not made a facebook account to this date, and I am not going to start even considering making one.
I didn't care about Facebook but about Oculus. And I did thought that Facebook would honor the Oculus idea by keeping Facebook account as optional for all Oculus games and devices and all, but only require it for the Facebook own applications and such services (messenger, facebook page and such)!Rift S will be my last product I own and use because I do not take my name to Facebook and public. Thanks, but no thanks!
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Me
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I agree with this, and unfortunately i was the reason friends bought this device. I do not appreciate being blackmailed into using facebook as i strongly disagree with their terms and conditions.
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Anonymous
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I have no interest in the Facebook social ecosystem. I have never used any of its features and I would never use any of it's features. I purchased an Oculus Rift CV1 HMD to use in the applications I enjoy (flight/driving sims). It has always worked fine for this and would continue to work fine for this if it were not for Facebook artifically disabling the device by force if I do not agree to sign up to Facebook and give them all of my personal data associated with my vr experience. This is functionally not much different from being mugged outside of a bank, You (Facebook) are trying to force me to agree to give you my data by literally 'taking away' the VR headset that I have already paid you for. I agreed to your Terms of Service and Privacy agreements when I purchased the device. Now you are changing the rules AND stealing back the device which I paid you for! You (Facebook) are an immoral and unethical company, not only for this theft, but also for your hand in doing your best to destroy privacy and democracy in the United States and around the world.
This device (Oculus Rift CV1) is fully functional without a Facebook account. It is absurd that you intend to disable it if I do not create and use a Facebook account!
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Chris Sherrard
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I love my Rift S, but FB / Oculus are dreaming if they think I will continue to use their platform if they require me to use a Facebook account. The HP Reverb G2 is looking really nice right now.
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Rystet
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If the Facebook integration proceeds as planned, I will be leaving the Oculus platform all together.
The INDEX is looking more and more attractive.
Whoever made this choice must be extremely out of touch with their current customer.
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Drew McCoy
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Having owned every Oculus headset since the DK1 (and convincing 6 friends and family members to purchase Rift / Rift S / Quests) this is beyond upsetting to me. If this change goes through I will be selling all my Oculus hardware and rescinding my recommendations to friends and family.
Bad move.
Count me in on the eventual class action lawsuit.
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LB
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I'm ok with an *option* to link or even log in with an FB account.
I can tolerate that option being shoved foremost.
I cannot tolerate being required to link my real name to arbitrary games though; that is not acceptable. Nothing beyond biilling needs my real name, and further, shouldn't be exposed by default.Sure, the device can be used for social purposes, but that's not the only thing that the vr can be used for, and not all social experiences need to be tied to your real name.
And no, the preference to show a gamer tag as the label is not enough, especially with defaults as they are.
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Aydin Ucar
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No to Facebook login!
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Ted
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This is a bad move Oculus. The moment I can no longer use my Rift S without a Facebook login will be the moment you lose a faithful customer. I've been really happy with the Rift S but this is a showstopper for me and most of the people I know in the VR community.
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djcjf
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I originaly posted this over in the Oculus Quest section, I encourage everyone who has a quest as well to vote over there to support this movement further, Thank you everyone for continuing to try to be heard!
Bad move FB and Oculus!
This is absolutely unfair to the community!
Don't you remember promising us "The VR and Oculus Community" that you would never force Facebook login!
You lied to us, We feel betrayed!
I've supported you since day one!
I was one of those DK2 users who saw the potential in you're Wonderful creations!
I even went out and bought two Quests and a Rift S even though I was aware you were bought up by Facebook A company I'm against!
And this is how you show you're respect and love to you're users and the rest of the VR community!?
By forcing new and old users to use FB Login!
Not only that but you refuse to even support the Rift S user base!
And to add the cherry on top of this disgusting cake you've made you finally decided to give us multi user login if we use FB!
Facebook won't even allow me to make an account under my Virtual Identity, Witch I already struggle to even think of giving them that!
If you don't fix this I'll be switching to another platform by 2023...
BTW Valve was right, The Cake is a lie... I guess I'll be buying an index...
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Sky_kun
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If they really go through with this, I guess I have a $400 paperweight.
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Anonymous
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I, as a customer, was acquired by FB when they acquired Oculus. I have been an early adopter, had DK1 and 2, and have encouraged 32 people to select Oculus. Oculus Rift delivered on a long standing dream for consumer VR.
I have supported the company by purchasing my preferred VR games via the Oculus store where possible, often taking a financial hit, in order to support a key VR hardware creator.
While I can appreciate a level of optional integration with the parent companies social media - should there come a time that there is an absolute requirement to login to FB, I will and no longer make any purchases through the Oculus store. I will provide my point of view to the folk that purchased based on my past advice, and let them make their own decisions. There is no reason valid to a consumer to enforce the authentication through a separate social media platform, in my view.
I have had the Rift since a couple of months after release. I will be looking for new gen hardware in the next 12 months, and will not consider Oculus if social media login is a requirement.
It would be a shame to damage long standing loyal partnerships you have with your customers; so I recommend you continue to keep FB login as an option to enable social media features for those that want it.
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Harrihu Inkpen
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I want in on any class actions and will sign any petitions I find. I'm giving them a week to reconsider then returning my product if nothing changes and deleting my Facebook account. I know it won't make much of a difference in the grand scheme of things but whatever. I won't participate.
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Anonymous
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I've talked with a few very high powered law firms and they stated that this could be a huge Class Action Lawsuit. Be interesting to see how many start the process and merge all the small ones into just one large Class Action.
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Anonymous
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I agree
100% will not be sticking with occulus if im required to log in via facebook....
This is stupid and a REALLY bad idea some of us got into this pre facebook and all tho we are all happy you guys sold and made some god coin... We dont want to use facebook this will kill your product -
Philippe
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This is a dealbreaker for me. If this decision stands I will no longer consider Oculus headsets or using the Oculus store for future purchases.
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Kayla
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As someone who's had a oculus account since 2012 (Not sure how to log-in with it here tho) I'm incredibly disheartened by this move. I supported the oculus ecosystem under the pretense that at the very least my app library/DRM would remain disconnected from my facebook account. Unless you add some level of support for oculus acounts I will no longer be supporting oculus going forward.
You should be offering refunds to all the people you lied to/misled if you are seriously going to break promises in such a big way. The main division of facebook has NOT earned my trust. Facebook has engaged in tons of sketchy and questionable privacy violations. Please reconsider this incredibly anti-consumer decision you are making.
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SpiderDiv
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If they decide to follow through with this decision, I'm honestly just going to cancel my order.
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Anonymous
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We could add friends without FaceBook before.
Now we can't.This retroactive blocking of features is unacceptable.
I paid for this device, and yet not only do I have to accept a stupid privacy agreement, or not get to use my 350$ device, but now you're cutting off pieces of what was there before and then selling it at the premium of a FaceBook account?This is exactly what you said you wouldn't do, and yet look where we are.
The next headset I get will likely be a Reverb G2.In fact I'd rather recommend people to use Windows 10 on an update they can't go back from than recommend something that forces people to use FaceBook.
I think it's obvious enough at this point that people don't want FaceBook on their VR headsets. You already have a social app separate from what we need to run our headsets. Stick to that, let us use the devices we paid a premium to not run FaceBook on.
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mrWhitenoise
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yes, agreed.
fakebook is a showstopper for this. no thanks.