Deleting or deactivating your Facebook will do the same for your Oculus account.

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Deleting or deactivating your Facebook will do the same for your Oculus account.

Facebook doesn't seem to want you to stop using Facebook. Worse, if you delete your Facebook account, your app purchases and achievements will also be deleted." You will no longer be able to return apps and you will lose your existing store credits," Facebook says. "If you want to purchase Oculus Quest 2, you need a Facebook account, and that account must be active at all times, and if you want to use Quest 2 must be in good standing, presumably.

First reported and confirmed by UploadVR, this is just the latest in a series of controversies surrounding Facebook's decision to tie future Oculus VR Headset use to other unrelated Facebook accounts. Users of past headsets not tied to Facebook can continue to use those accounts until 2023.

The change was announced earlier this year and has since become increasingly controversial and unpopular. Things came to a head with the launch of the Oculus Quest 2 headset: some users who struggled to activate their long-dormant Facebook accounts were left with a frustratingly useless headset. [Despite these controversies, the Oculus Quest 2 is selling better than expected.

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