It probably wasn't, but we needed some way to save high scores, and "outsourcing" auth to FB was the simplest way. I've done other projects where that's optional, and that'll probably be the end goal for this as well.

If it's any consolation, I don't like sites that only use FB auth either... this is just a product of the time-constraint.

Any way to put a quick hack so we can play without using FB login? Would love to try it out...

I'll do my best to hack in a non-Facebook version when I get some time. Definitely a necessity.

I agree that they probably didn't need Facebook, but a generation ago, it would have been an email address that they required, and I would have just used a "junk" account. I'm honestly wondering, for people who don't like Facebook, what is the problem with just having a "junk" Facebook account?

Facebook doesn't really like "junk" accounts.

And Hotmail et al did?

Yes, you could have your 246th email account as [email protected] without any fuss?!

you can still have junk facebook accounts, the sign up process is slightly longer than hotmail's, but not by much. I still have around 15 junk facebook accounts or so... I only remember the passwords for about 3 of them.

I do, but any site that asks me to log in using it quickly gets closed. Sorry, but I'm not interested in using facebook outside of facebook.

It's just facebook login. Think of it as a cookie.