My husband and I have separate accounts and one Oculus Quest 2. I was able to play Beat Saber we purchased on his account using mine. I just bought a music pack add-on with his account. I went into mine and it's asking me to buy it again. I don't understand why I can play the game but not the add-on. It's a family Oculus and if I want to have my own account to track my own progress outside my husband I should be able to. It's not like we can play the same game together since it's the same Oculus.

Looks like some miscommunication occurred, sorry about that ramzoah and kunoichi-chan. The investigation that was previously mentioned was in relation to app sharing which has since been resolved. Content such as DLCs is intended to not be sharable.EDIT: Disclaimer, this was marked as Accepted Solution to inform others that the DLCs are intended to not be shareable. There is no fix to this as it is not a bug.

Beat Saber add-ons not sharing on Quest 2 | Meta Community Forums

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DarkXIII
Honored Guest
4 years ago
Having the same problem
Fanible
Protege
4 years ago
Sadly, while they added family account sharing for the game on the Quest 2, it only works for the original songs. None of the DLC music can be shared, which is a tad silly. Pretty much all other rhythm games on other consoles allow this, so I would have thought it would have been the same here. We wound up getting a refund. The licensed music was one of the main reasons we were interested in getting this game and we had also been waiting until it was able to be app shared. Imagine our disappointment after thinking they finally updated it right.

The only way you would be able to have individual scoring on separate accounts for the DLC is if you bought two separate copies of the game, as well as separate purchases for each of the DLC. If you attempt to buy the add-on songs on any secondary accounts, it will tell you that you still need to buy the original game to do so. That's a bit too much to ask, so we're going back to waiting again until they eventually update it to app share the licensed music as well.
- NarcissaDanu
  Honored Guest
  4 years ago
  That’s crazy. My son and I were going to play head to head tonight. I was willing to split the cost of a second quest with my kids so we could play multiplayer games together, but paying for twice the games is just insanity! Facebook needs to figure this out! Being able to share the games but not DLC makes zero sense. It’s all a money grab, because apparently Mark Zuckerberg needs more…
- SaltedGinger
  Honored Guest
  3 years ago
  Beat Saber was the only reason we made an additional account on our Beat Saber and this doesn't work, dumb as h3ll.
- mahSoods
  Explorer
  3 years ago
  I’ll play other games. I’m too stubborn to pay for ish twice.
  - Pixie40
    Expert Trustee
    3 years ago
    Generally speaking, I don't buy games twice either. Not unless there's a compelling reason like features that change how you play such as VR or it being a re-release and my original copy no longer being playable. I'll be buying Curse: Eye of Isis for example because my physical copy can't be played due to my current computer not having a CD drive. I don't have that many PS4 games. Okay, I have a lot of them, but not compared to XB1 games. And my PS3 library is tiny, especially compared to my Xbox 360 library. This is because I refused to buy the same games multiple times for different platforms.
    
    And I do understand why people are up in arms over this. Really, I do. The fact the DLC is not sharable really needs to be sign posted better.
    
    With that in mind, unless your home has a separate Quest 2 for each and every person I'm really not seeing what the big deal is. If it offends you so much to pay for a song pack that someone else in the household already bought, then just don't do it. There's nothing preventing both of you from playing those songs in Beat Saber. Okay, so the high scores wont be listed under your user. But is that really that big of a deal? And if it is, then you can buy the song pack for yourself. They aren't that expensive.
    
    Yes, I get the reason for the complaining. I had to buy Beat Saber and the Imagine Dragons song pack twice myself. Once on the Quest, and then again on Steam because for a while I only had a Vive Cosmos VR headset and wanted to keep working out. And really, blaming this on Beat Games/Facebook/Valve is not really helpful. After all, it's the record labels who set the pricing scheme and decided the DLC wont be sharable. You know, the same record labels who made it illegal to play an album on your boombox if you're out in the public. And who would love to make it illegal for more then the one person who bought it to listen to an album in their own home.
DeadlyInsight
Honored Guest
4 years ago
Just found out the same thing yesterday. I'm not willing to fork over money twice for the same song packs. This totally defeated the purpose of sharing accounts with my wife. We have one quest 2 that we thought was shareable. Very disappointed and feel mislead.
- Shamrock2981
  Honored Guest
  4 years ago
  Just found this out today and I am completely disappointed! I refuse to put my payment information under my sons (11yo) account so I am the main user (owner) and bought the games under my name and now my son is screwed unless I buy the game for a second time! Definitely misleading and a rip off!!!
flowglow
Honored Guest
4 years ago
I think it is a bug, not a feature. But keeping in mind how long it took for them to include the app sharing it is hard to say when they fix this.
JenArb
Honored Guest
4 years ago
New to Oculus and we just discovered this too! Purchased and played Billie Ellish and Interscope Mixtape in my (primary) admin account yesterday and my son went to play in his (secondary) account today only to find he could not use those packs without buying!! Its just ridiculous that in an already shared app like beat saber any add on such as music packs aren't available to all accounts on the same headset!! Extremely disappointing!!!
- Shamrock2981
  Honored Guest
  4 years ago
  Agree 100%!!!!! My son is very upset about this bc I refuse to buy Beat Saber for a second time just to get the add-ons under his name! Misleading and a rip off!!
- 0000Emily0000
  Honored Guest
  1 year ago
  Extremely since my children all have different tastes in music. I wont buy another music pack until they come up with another option for profile sharing. Maybe something like in the app itself profile switching so the scores are connected to the respected player. Thats an idea 💡
LyfaRiley
Honored Guest
4 years ago
Hello Oculus Community (and hopefully the Beat Saber team),

Am very new to the community but wanted to add my comments to this thread. Am very much enjoying the Beat Saber game. Well worth the purchase price but I am extremely disappointed that we cannot share the music packs within our shared network. Great that we can share the app but extremely annoying that we cannot share the music packs. This needs to be fixed. Hopefully just an oversight by the developer and not a money grab.
- Anonymous
  4 years ago
  I bought two music packs with the intent of sharing them with my family as I do the games. Now I’ll probably just ask for a refund if only I can use them.
  - GemmaKat
    Protege
    3 years ago
    Did you get a refund? They told us that only app purchase not in game purchases were eligible for a refund.
- LyfaRiley
  Honored Guest
  4 years ago
  Hello Oculus Community (and again, hopefully the Beat Saber development team),
  
  Wanted to follow up on my initial post - hope this is the best way to do it. Sorry, this may be a kind of long rant.
  
  When I found out I could not share the Beat Saber music packs with the shared accounts, I reached out to Oculus and the Beat Saber team.
  
  Have heard ZERO from Beat Saber.
  
  Went back and forth several times with Oculus on this. As you know from my first post, I think it is ridiculous that we can share the game but not the music packs. In my discussion with Oculus, I expressed this many times and came back to the simple point that they (Oculus) are the platform. They control the platform and should exercise some degree of control over the developers. I pointed out that Apple does maintain some control and the end result is that the Apple ecosystem is very dependable. Certainly not perfect but dependable.
  
  When I made this comment to Oculus, this is what I received back: "I wish it is easier to comprehend if the system is as simple as the one Apple is practicing. However, we truly hope you understand that we at Oculus, provide a flexible platform for our dedicated developers hence allowing them to have the freedom to modify the app-sharing features for their application. Specifically for Beat Saber, you can check out their statement in regards to exceptions for other music packs here."
  
  So, based on their response, Oculus is just fine with the developers doing whatever they want. Seems they also are taking a swipe at my intelligence by indicating that I can't comprehend what is going on here. Oculus has offered to refund the music pack purchase price but that is not what I want.
  
  I am incredibly disappointed at Oculus' lack of support for the platform customers. Again, it is their platform and they should bear at least some of the responsibility for making sure apps work properly. Giving developers carte blanche and hoping for the best is not a good plan.
  
  Overall I still like the headset but this is certainly a big "other" in the overall experience. Hopefully Oculus or Beat Saber will get their act together and do something.
  - ChillCat18
    Honored Guest
    4 years ago
    Thank you for looking into this more and sharing what you found out. Really disappointing response from Oculus.
    
    At a minimum, the lack of shareability of music packs with accounts on the same headset should be made crystal clear (not buried somewhere) before a music pack purchase is finalized. That is something Oculus could require while still giving Best Saber the “freedom to modify the app-sharing features of their application.”
    
    I guess Oculus cares more about “dedicated developers” than “dedicated consumers.”
VR_Kurt
Honored Guest
4 years ago
Yes yes yes! This is a pretty sad detail. They are SO close to doing this right, but things like this just tick people off.
Bovasaurus
Honored Guest
4 years ago
This needs to be fixed. I’m already buying beat saber on two devices. That was a stretch but my family loves this game. Now to ask to buy music packs for each user on each device is absolutely insane. Please fix this.
ArkadyRandom
Explorer
4 years ago
Yes, I found this out too after buying the game on the Oculus Desktop and then learning I had to buy it again if I wanted it on my headset to share with family. Then I find out that the music packs I buy on the headset don't share between accounts. I'm not spending any more money on Beat Saber. I'm really put off by this and it feels greedy.
withsilverwings
Explorer
4 years ago
So annoying - you can share it and DLC's on Steam. I'm not buying the game twice and the DLCs twice....