Grand Theft Auto players 'rightfully pretty pissed' after Rockstar commits around 200 acts of grand theft auto
Grand Theft Auto Online's latest update, San Andreas Mercenaries, arrived yesterday and adds a new type of mission, various cosmetic content, and a bunch of quality of life changes. It's pretty interesting that, among the latter, you can finally sprint by just holding down the button rather than hammering it: that took how long?
Sprinting is the last thing on GTAO fans' minds, however, because while Rockstar giveth with this free update it has also done quite a job of taketh-ing away around 200 cars and motorcycles from the in-game stores. To add insult to injury, a bunch of them have now been made available to GTA+ subscribers, the game's premium offering, through the Vinewood Car Club (which only GTA+ players can access).
This is a 10 year-old game. Rockstar had flagged that it would be removing some cars before the update, but players assumed this meant getting rid of a few old bangers that no-one uses anymore. That wasn't the case.
For its part Rockstar said «many lesser-used vehicles have been removed from dealership websites to streamline the shopping experience … these will occasionally be made available in other ways, including at The Diamond Casino & Resort’s Lucky Wheel».
On the GTA forums players are keeping a catalogue of what vehicles have been removed from the in-game websites (which is how you purchase them) and the list is extensive. A particular bone of contention for players is the Rockstar claim it would be removing «lesser-used» cars, because that is not the case.
«They said lesser vehicles and removed fucking everything,» said SparkySyndicate, which is not strictly accurate but does perhaps capture an emotion.
«I would have been mostly alright with cars that you could just steal from the street and
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