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Deleting Facebook also deletes your Oculus purchases - Eurogamer.net

Deleting Facebook also deletes your Oculus purchases - Eurogamer.net

Deleting Facebook also deletes your Oculus purchases - Eurogamer.net
Oct 24, 2020 1 min, 32 secs

Oculus has endured a PR nightmare in recent weeks after it emerged its controversial Oculus Quest 2 Facebook account merge had turned some headsets into "paperweights".

Well, that nightmare is set to continue with the revelation that deleting Facebook also deletes your Oculus purchases.

Deactivating your Facebook profile disables your Oculus Profile.

Deleting your Facebook account takes away all your games, purchases, and progress?

Facebook confirmed to UploadVR that if you own the original Quest, Rift or Rift 2, don't plan to get another Oculus headset and haven't yet linked your Oculus and Facebook accounts, then deleting your unlinked Facebook account now won't affect your Oculus store purchases.

However, it's worth noting currently anyone using an Oculus device for the first time or the Oculus Quest 2 needs to log in with a Facebook account, and from 2023, Facebook will no longer support Oculus accounts at all.

This latest news comes from text Facebook displays when you try to permanently delete your account.

"Deleting your Facebook account will also delete your Oculus information," the text warns.

As you'd expect, Oculus and Facebook have been criticised for this policy at a time when Facebook and social media are under intense scrutiny.

I've seen plenty of people suggest creating separate Facebook accounts for Oculus, but there is concern that this approach may not work.

Last week, Facebook's augmented and virtual reality boss Andrew Bosworth responded to the account suspension issue by saying "people should continue to make sure their Facebook accounts are in good standing before they buy the headset".

"They make you sign in with an account and there's a reason for that?

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