there is no difference between this and going house to house with stormtroopers collecting VHS tapes or magazines because the contents are no longer profitable to someone. also we told you so 
a big part of the threat of capitalism is that it's immune to satire, but doesn't seem that way. every satirization of capitalism eventually comes true in literal form but few recognize this
a satire of capitalism in 1945 could have been a doctor holding a tourniquet and watching as you bleed out, waiting for you to pay. we do that now, that's a thing. nobody would have believed it until it happened, and it's backed by so many other "reasonable" decisions
That's the demon core of capitalism; you live decades watching companies do what appears to be reasonable, justifiable things and ignore the anti capitalists saying "does this not set a precedent for much more terrifying things?" No, no, ridiculous
Then when they do something fucking revolting, you're trapped because it seems equivalent so it's hard to get angry at
See, there's no reason for this. None. They're affecting copies of the game that are already out there - this has literally never been done in history. A recall of a work because copyright status of part of its content changed is unprecedented. But they /could./
The fact they /could/ means they immediately did. And that tells you this: publishers have had their fucking eye on your books and records and magazines and DVDs for decades, trying to scheme a way to take them away from you because they're no longer profitable.
You should be really fucking scared of that. If you aren't scared of multi-billion-dollar companies drooling at the prospect of taking away the art you bought and have owned for years - GTA4 is a decade old! - you might not have a survival instinct.
You can't win this. Nobody can win this. They'll just do it again. They'll cancel your music you paid for too, if they can. And your books. They've done all of this and it will only escalate.
Capitalism is /inseparable/ from rent seeking. Rent seeking is unequivocally antisocial. Rent seeking is the act of extracting money for access to a product so you can stop producing and continue to profit while others have to continue producing. Unfair by definition.
As a creator, this is perhaps justifiable. Creators don't tend to do this. It's publishers and labels and holding companies - middlemen, people who took no risks, did nothing and provided nothing that wasn't amortized across thousands and thousands of prospects
You don't believe me, but someday they will come to your house with armed men and take away your devices because you disconnected them from the internet so they can no longer reach out and remove your purchased art.
It's already illegal to modify your devices to make it impossible for them to do this. You own nothing and control nothing legally speaking. The kindle app on your tablet is an embassy of the Amazon nation, and you have zero rights there. This is not a joke.
You can pay $12.99 to read a book, but as far as Amazon and the law are concerned you paid that fee for the right to sit in Amazon's library and read that book. You can't walk out with it and they can make you put it down and leave at any time.
You should be really fucking scared of all of this.
