GTA Online Fans Furious as 180+ Cars Are Removed, Some Now Paywalled

Re:GTA Online Fans Furious as 180+ Cars Are Removed, Some No... by gretch on Thursday July 06, 2023 @01:28PM (#36619595)

It'd be a ridiculous expectation for society to keep.

I've been paying for Netflix - this month they probably took off 20~30 movies due to licenses ending.

You're gonna say, hold on, I haven't had a chance to watch all those yet.

Or if I paid for the costco membership for a year and then they take some product off the shelf and I say - hold on I haven't had the opportunity to purchase that yet.

Nothing in our society works this way

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Re:GTA Online Fans Furious as 180+ Cars Are Removed, Some No... by earthling8118 on Thursday July 06, 2023 @03:44PM (#36621714)

Items from Costco don't work that way because there are a physical item. It has to be produced, can potentially spoil, and can take up a lot of space. Movies on Netflix get removed because of licenses, not because they can't be copied and stored trivially. If you can't see the difference between these then I think we'll have a hard time coming to an agreement here.

Also: it is entirely reasonable if I decided to cancel a Costco membership if they stopped carrying items I want. The same goes for Netflix, but they have less of an excuse from this perspective because as a consumer I don't care about licensing. At all.

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Re:GTA Online Fans Furious as 180+ Cars Are Removed, Some No... by wkdneidbwf on Thursday July 06, 2023 @06:27PM (#36624086)

yes, but we’re talking about video gamers who aren’t ruled by logic or reason. they’ll endlessly bitch about this and then rush to preorder the next thing.

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