Deleting your Facebook account forfeits Oculus VR games you already paid for

Re:Deleting your Facebook account forfeits Oculus VR games y... by Jyaif on Tuesday October 27, 2020 @01:37PM (#24909784)

Facebook isn't doing anything special here, I believe this is what the majority of stores are doing, include the Apple App Store and the Google Play Store. In fact, I'd be curious to know which virtual stores do not do that.

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Re:Deleting your Facebook account forfeits Oculus VR games y... by Rebelgecko on Tuesday October 27, 2020 @02:55PM (#24910582)

Some differences:

AFAIK Apple will never lock me out of my App Store purchases and demand to see my passport

Microsoft won't take away the Xbox games I purchased if I use a pseudonym on LinkedIn or post Hacktoberfest spam on github

Steam won't ban me if I have separate accounts for work and personal use

etc

If having a Facebook account was less onerous and didn't come with as much overhead (for example, FB has banned people for making an account and not using the social features) I think people would be less up in arms

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Re:Deleting your Facebook account forfeits Oculus VR games y... by maneesh on Tuesday October 27, 2020 @05:41PM (#24912255)

Amazon did this because I bought a bunch of gift cards. They permanently blocked my account, I lost all my audible credits and Kindle books.

No appeal, nothing.

What can I do?

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Re:Deleting your Facebook account forfeits Oculus VR games y... by ValentineC on Tuesday October 27, 2020 @07:21PM (#24913209)

> Amazon did this because I bought a bunch of gift cards.

What kind of gift cards were you buying? The Visa/Mastercard ones?

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Re:Deleting your Facebook account forfeits Oculus VR games y... by maneesh on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @03:31AM (#24916189)

Amazon gift certificates. Like 10 at a time. They didn’t go through and I called in and gave verification that the transaction was me. They approved it. It was me.

Then they emailed saying that my account was accessed by unauthorized party and killed the account. Told me to open a new one.

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Re:Deleting your Facebook account forfeits Oculus VR games y... by baybal2 on Tuesday October 27, 2020 @06:09PM (#24912561)

Small claims court

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Re:Deleting your Facebook account forfeits Oculus VR games y... by dorkinspace on Tuesday October 27, 2020 @04:42PM (#24911634)

This is the problem entirely. If I could create a throw away FB account to use for my VR devices and games, there would be no issue for me.

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Re:Deleting your Facebook account forfeits Oculus VR games y... by m463 on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @01:04AM (#24915427)

Can you create throwaway facebook accounts? I've always head stories of people doing this then something happens and they are closed.

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Re:Deleting your Facebook account forfeits Oculus VR games y... by Rebelgecko on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @02:35AM (#24915916)

it's a violation of the FB TOS

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Re:Deleting your Facebook account forfeits Oculus VR games y... by timmytokyo on Tuesday October 27, 2020 @02:34PM (#24910377)

Are you aware of other services that require government-issued ID in order to maintain an account? That seems special to me.

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Re:Deleting your Facebook account forfeits Oculus VR games y... by maneesh on Tuesday October 27, 2020 @05:41PM (#24912260)

Amazon

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Re:Deleting your Facebook account forfeits Oculus VR games y... by Solocomplex on Tuesday October 27, 2020 @01:56PM (#24909999)

They have always required the same account to use those stores. Only the Microsoft store doesn't require a login at all.

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