10 Video Games That Removed Important Features AFTER RELEASE
When huge features get taken out post-launch - for better or worse.

For the most part, it's certainly a blessing that modern video games can be updated after launch, because very few games - if any - are in a fundamentally perfect state on release.
The nature of games development means that developers are usually pushing up against a deadline set by a publisher, and so the game they put out on release day has hopefully-minor issues that can be ironed out in a patch.
But sometimes developers also end up doing something more drastic, like removing huge features the game launched with for one reason or another.
This could be a good or bad thing depending on the nature of the removal.
Perhaps the developers saw the vitriolic online response to a certain mode or mechanic and found a way to excise it without hurting the rest of the experience, or maybe they had to cut much-loved elements for tedious legal or business reasons.
Whatever the explanation - if there even was one - these games all ripped out huge, defining features after release, as caught us all by surprise for better or worse...
10. 17 Songs - Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas

The Grand Theft Auto franchise is known for, among many other things, its fantastic soundtracks comprised of existing popular music, with GTA: San Andreas arguably touting one of the series' finest to date.
With a soundtrack topped by the likes of Cypress Hill, N.W.A., Rage Against the Machine, 2Pac, Public Enemy, Faith No More, James Brown, Lynyrd Skynyrd, and many more, there was basically something for everyone.
That was, until the PC version of San Andreas was updated on its 10th anniversary, which unceremoniously removed 17 songs from the game's library, including Rage Against the Machine's "Killing in the Name" and N.W.A.'s "Express Yourself" - two iconic tracks San Andreas is most closely associated with.
And to rub salt in the wound, existing saves wouldn't work on this updated version of the game either.
It appears that the songs were removed by Rockstar due to expired licensing agreements, and such is the double-edged sword of every developer's ability to update games whenever they want.