Forcing users to be part of a social ecosystem is not necessary for the purposes of playing the vast majority of games, and those who wish to play games without social networking should be free to do so." "Consumers should be allowed to own a device without linking it to Facebook. That should largely depend on the design of the contract, which we do not have."įurther Reading Why the Facebookening of Oculus VR is bad for users, devs, competition"Regulators in Germany are right to question the legality of this move," Ray Walsh, a digital privacy expert at ProPrivacy, said in a statement provided to Ars Technica. Whether this also applies to new customers is definitely open to discussion. "The obligation to create a Facebook account is legally extremely questionable, at least for those who have already bought a headset. In a statement provided to Heise Online, the Hamburg Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information (HCDPFI) said, in part: We were not obliged to take this measure, but proactively interrupted the sale." Breaking up a coupling? But in a statement to German News site Heise Online ( machine translation), the company said the move was due to "outstanding talks with German supervisory authorities. "We will continue supporting users who already own an Oculus device and we're looking forward to resuming sales in Germany soon."įacebook declined an opportunity to provide additional comment to Ars Technica. "We have temporarily paused selling Oculus devices to consumers in Germany," Facebook writes in a brief message on the Oculus support site.
Reports suggest the move is in response to concerns from German regulators about the recently announced requirement that all Oculus users will need to use a Facebook account by 2023 to log in to the device. Further Reading The Facebookening of Oculus VR becomes more pronounced starting in October Facebook subsidiary Oculus says it has "temporarily paused" sales of Oculus Quest headsets to customers in Germany.
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