What about Barges?

[Sally]

It is delusional because developer staff are staying mum on barges (which tells me something is cooking). Imagine you bought a new car for a goodly amount of money. A patch is released to the CPU of the car which prevents it from having the same fuel efficiency and speed, 2 of the things you decided was worth buying that car for. Wouldn't you want a refund too? To your point, even partial refunds would be acceptable. None has been offered, not even feedback to threads such as this.

Difference being, a car is an actual physical good that costs physical resources to produce and money, and you can choose to never touch firmware and stick in an older version, unless you're in US and it's one of those new Tesla cars or some other electric piece-of-trash car, which you de-facto don't even own in the first place, even if you paid for it and you're held accountable for what happens behind the wheel, in my personal case, I wouldn't want a refund because I would never purchase a car that can be remotely bricked by big tech over internet whenever they feel like it.

This is a digital asset that can be replicated an infinite amount of times once it's done, on a game, (allegedly) getting nerfed, along with a whole economy upgrade. No one can stop you or anyone else from reversing whatever changes are made on this patch and no one stops you from hosting your own server with said changes if you disagree with them, unlike with the hypothetical DRMed car example you mentioned. Whether someone will play on said server is a completely different issue.

Cars aren't a good example for this, and makes you sound even more delusional if you believe they're remotely comparable.