Dang, not an oculus/meta User but hopefully people can transition over their games/content to the new account in the shuffle of it all. What a headache! It often such a bummer as a consumer when the platform you bought into gets acquired.
Tell HN: Oculus will delete purchases if you don’t switch to a meta account
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#12Another example for the recent thread about why piracy is a reasonable option.
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#13Another example for the recent thread about why piracy is a reasonable option.
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#14If you are in Europe, this is likely illegal. But I don't think anybody has deep pockets enough to try to bring that to court.
Isn’t it GDPR that is requiring them to delete this data in the first place?
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#15Why are they so adamant about destroying whatever goodwill they have left?
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#16ah this explains why they were so into legs Login or Erase Games Sold
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#17I will never buy hardware that requires an online account. At least not expecting it to last.
If a company does not leverage the account, maybe they go bankrupt, get acquired, or just shut down their servers supporting old hardware.
That said, I wonder if people might still qualify for small claims when their devices get turned into bricks.
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#18I was confused by the terminology between Meta, Oculus and Facebook accounts, and which was an upgrade of which.
When confronted by the upgrade (I was actually trying to do something else, which required upgrading the account to Meta, which required upgrading the software) I tried the path of least resistance, which was just "log in with your email". I didn't remember if this was how I always logged in, and honestly this is a gaming gadget which receives far less atention than my laptop or mobile -- I just figured whatever I chose would be harmless. Turns out this wasn't right, and then the oficial docs warn that choosing the wrong option may result in creating an empty new account without any apps/games, which will require deleting it before proceeding, which may take up to 90 days.
I freaked out, tried logging in, it didn't work, freaked out some more and one of the random things I tried (I forget which) worked and I suddenly had all my stuff again.
Noteworthy here: I'm tech savvy, this shouldn't require freaking out, and in fact it should be smooth sailing, something like "click here to upgrade, done, you're ready to go".
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#19https://time.com/38366/here-are-7-promises-oculus-has-made-a... https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2016/09/facebook-login-adds-r... https://www.quora.com/Do-you-need-a-Facebook-account-to-use-... This has changed back and forth twice now in the less than 10 years since Oculus launched.
I can't believe it's been 10 years...
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#20I was confused by the terminology between Meta, Oculus and Facebook accounts, and which was an upgrade of which. When confronted by the upgrade (I was actually trying to do something else, which required upgrading the account to Meta, which required upgrading the software) I tried the path of least resistance, which was just "log in with your email". I didn't remember if this was how I always logged in, and honestly…
Anytime an account that uses an email as a unique ID is merged with another system that may or may not do the same, you get weird results. I still have some iTunes purchases tied to an iTunes account that somehow has the same email as my main Apple ID but is not tied to that Apple ID.