[IggleSniggle]

Not OP but I bought a Rift when it was still just Oculus.

...then Facebook bought Oculus...

...and then required you to have a Meta account to continue using the Oculus drivers.

It's a real "boil the frog" strategy and this is still early days for VR in terms of realized market value. The time to push back on this bullshit is yesterday. As we can all see, nobody can compete with Meta on price with the Quest 3, but the cost to purchase is heavily subsidized by the expected futures.

[bonton89]

If you bought a Rift before facebook purchased them I wouldn't call it boiling the frog, more like being stabbed in the back. Not much to do there but sell your device but I guess most people probably hoped things would turn out differently than they did. This is one of the most infuriating parts of America now, if you hate a company and never want to interact with them some merger comes along and throws you into being their customer again against your will.

Of course, OP owns a Quest 3 so its more cut and dry there.