Re:Delete Facebook and You'll Lose All Oculus Games for Good
by postingawayonhn on Sunday October 25, 2020 @10:31AM
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> 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.
Re:Delete Facebook and You'll Lose All Oculus Games for Good
by bryan_w on Sunday October 25, 2020 @03:49AM
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Having 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.
Re:Delete Facebook and You'll Lose All Oculus Games for Good
by derangedHorse on Sunday October 25, 2020 @06:26AM
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Why 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.
> 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.