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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Avery Dunkerley commented
Is it ironic that I signed in with Facebook to vote for this?
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Anonymous Developer
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It really should be a separate friends list. The consoles have the right idea, like Sony did before the recent disabling of Facebook integration. A person has game friends, but the same person has real life friends. They shouldn't be the same group. I don't want a random person I enjoyed playing a multiplayer game with to be able to see pictures of my kids posted Friends-only to Facebook. Yes, Facebook lets you manage different audiences and groups of friends, but that's putting a huge burden on the user to manage those lists, even for those willing to have a Facebook account. Can you imagine if all your Xbox Live and Playstation Online "friends" lists were merged with Facebook and could see all the private stuff you post friends-only on Facebook? Terrible, terrible, terrible idea.
With the Xbox / Playstation approach, you can have a group of friends you enjoy gaming with, and if you opt into Facebook integration, you can also turn your real friends into game friends. (The ideal user story is: "Who am I real life friends with who also has an account on Oculus?") But they are and should be different social groups. They shouldn't be managed as one.
And finally, this new change makes it impossible for devs to develop social features at work without Facebook friending everyone they work with. Which is a *really* bad idea... don't be Facebook friends with your coworkers. And furthermore, some devs have home and work Oculus accounts because they believe and support the platform, so their Facebook is already integrated with their home account. This has become an obstacle for developers.)
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brendan r
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This heavily influences my next HMD purchase
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Dan
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don't be bot noobs i just wanna game
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Richard
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I dont want to need Facebook to play multiplayer games and/or have some social interaction with other Oculus Quest users. I prefer to use my Oculus account instead of a Facebook account.
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Anonymous
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I will NEVER use facebook as a means for social interaction. Remove the mandatory integration for social features. I should not have to log into facebook to play a game with friends I made OUTSIDE of facebook.
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Russ Sleight
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I really shouldn't have to log into Facebook (I still, to this day do NOT have a Facebook account) in order to see friends online and play with them.
Since the time of this decision, I've only been using Oculus Home as a launcher for SteamVR.
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Anonymous
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Basic functionality like this should be usable without a Facebook account. However, if you had other extra features that users could benefit from while they were logged in with an official Facebook account like access to their Facebook page and Facebook features this would entice Facebook users to get a quest. Without this basic functionality though you're alienating current users who just want to chat with their friends without risk of losing privacy.
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Steve C
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I will not be using the social features of this device as long as this is the case. As such, there's a higher probability that I won't experience the full featureset of the device and be more likely to move to another headset. As of right now that's not what I'd prefer given the other features of Oculus devices. Please don't make your higher quality come along with swallowing a poison pill!
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Vibinator
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User experience has got ALOT worse since the Facebook integration. It's much less streamlined and harder to add friends..
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Dom T
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This has already made me sure that when i have to upgrade my headset, my money will go to valve instead
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Swingly 6061
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Playing Echo VR during scheduled events is becoming a pain due to the fact that you need to friend whoever you want to play with on Oculus. I can't add people any more!
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Bankai Billy
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I don't have a Facebook account and never will. Don't force this BS on users who don't either or have no interest in this restriction.
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Mikey Jensen commented
My only friend with a quest, doesn't have Facebook (he refuses), so I had to upvote this. Sent it to him as well.
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KYLE
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I only use Facebook for messenger, my profile is deactivated. Even though I can use messenger just fine if I try to connect to oculus it reactivates my profile. I am not interested in having a Facebook profile just to use social features. This alone could completely kill oculus as a platform, they need to realize their audience of enthusiast pc gamers does not like Facebook and a large number do not use it.
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John Norcross
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i don't own a Facebook account. I don't want a Facebook account. Keep Facebook away from VR and how about an Oculus VR social capability for gaming with friends/family that is NOT tied to Facebook?!!
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Natasha Murray
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I had an old Facebook account that I deleted many years ago. I used that same email to create my oculus account before this change. As a result, I can’t even connect my Facebook account no matter what I do. I have almost 100 friend request on oculus that I can’t answer. This is really, really, REALLY stupid.
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TJStudioYT commented
Are you even listening?
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Alex FIarn
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Next upgrade is an Index
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Anonymous
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I hate the fact that rift s requires Facebook. I'm a long time supporter of oculus and that account should be enough. It worked fine before