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I'm still annoyed that they don't have multiple user profiles for Quest. What kind of gaming device doesn't support that in 2020? Every time I hear an announcement from Oculus, I have a little hope they'll announce support for this, and every time I'm disappointed.

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Yeah this is the dumbest part of using a Quest right now. No profiles means no separate save data, so I can't differentiate my high scores in Beat Saber from my wife's, which is really annoying.

And then of course in some games with a story mode, if they didn't build in multiple save files into the game then you're just kind of screwed.

Totally. When I make Oculus friends, I hate that I have to tell them to find me as [my husband's username] because he signed up on the device first, so now I can never have my own Oculus account.

I solved the Beatsaber highscores problem by being really really good at Beatsaber, so I only play on Expert+ and he only plays the lower levels. That way our high scores are separate. :)

I use party mode for this. It lets you enter your names etc.

Was just chatting with a friend about this. It makes no sense.

The Quest is the perfect machine to share with others. I can take it to friends or family (well, pre-covid I could). VR _needs_ to reduce the friction to trying it out.

Even just a generic "guest" profile would be a huge step forward.

iPhone, iPad.

Which is evidence of them being substandard for gaming, IMO. For the iPhone, it's sort of justified, since it's more of a personal device (even if I've handed my phone to my son to play games plenty of times). But the iPad? One of the main use cases of that is a shared family device, isn't it?

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