I know it may come as a giant surprise, but when a very large, very wealthy game studio has a PR problem and a leading game industry rag (literally, Kotaku was part of Gawker which was an entire network of shitty tabloid sites) publishes a story about it, things just might be downplayed?

Rockstar implemented a number of changes, including a "too hot to modify" mechanism that keeps you from modding (and thus making your own) cars you steal off the road.

In a game called Grand Theft Auto, you can no longer steal cars because they wanted more revenue.

https://www.reddit.com/r/gtaonline/comments/149exbi/ao_about...

Just google "GTA changes" and read for yourself all the complaints.