Buying now vaulted vehicles

[JossyFoxxy]

I was wondering about how to acquire the Enus Stafford now that it's been removed with the mercenary updates. As completely idiotic as this decision was, I just want to know what to do about it.
The wiki says it can be obtained at the Casino Wheel when it's featured, however... I'm from Argentina and rockstar has disabled any and all gambling operations in the game for the region. This applies to any item and vehicle - so, is there a way?

[GingerWitch]

You can start by not doing business with a company that screws you over.

[cruste]

you go to the shady guy with the menu who can do magic tricks, than do the magic with the dupe and may risk to get banned for wanting a boring vehicle.

[JossyFoxxy]

Well, replying in order..

Originally posted by GingerWitch:

You can start by not doing business with a company that screws you over.

I haven't put any money into the game, only the criminal starter pack when it was heavily discounted which was cheaper than takeout actually so I haven't really been screwed over, yet

Originally posted by Blues Man:

Spinning a wheel once a day hardly qualifies as gambling, IMO.
I hope you can find a gov official or someone to complain to.

In any case that'd be Rockstar to complain to, people have complained about it already and they haven't changed their minds about it so I don't think they ever will.

Originally posted by cruste:

you go to the shady guy with the menu who can do magic tricks, than do the magic with the dupe and may risk to get banned for wanting a boring vehicle.

I've already suffered the consequences of funny bois with magic tricks, so I'm staying as far away as possible from them!
Also, it's not a boring vehicle to me, that's a subjective matter. I like oldie cars

[Caped Crusader]

At some point it'll probably appear in one of the dealership places, but no way to know if that's next week or could involve waiting until December or longer. Wish I could be of more substantive help. I'd happily pass you my Stafford, if that were possible. Did a photo shoot of it for fun maybe 2 years ago and I don't think I've touched it since then.

[FatBaldBoomer]

It was at luxury auto 2 weeks ago

[JossyFoxxy]

Originally posted by Blues Man:

Originally posted by JossyFoxxy:

In any case that'd be Rockstar to complain to, people have complained about it already and they haven't changed their minds about it so I don't think they ever will.

Was R* forced by the government? Why would they do this otherwise?

Kind of, yeah. Any country's anti-gambling laws makes R* disable Casino gambling. Kind of like the rally behind banning lootboxes in games, not every country/developer would abide by those laws but some would.

Originally posted by Caped Crusader:

At some point it'll probably appear in one of the dealership places, but no way to know if that's next week or could involve waiting until December or longer. Wish I could be of more substantive help. I'd happily pass you my Stafford, if that were possible. Did a photo shoot of it for fun maybe 2 years ago and I don't think I've touched it since then.

It's a fine car, very similar to the Bentley Mk. VI
I should've bought it when I had the chance, when the nightclub update came out.

Originally posted by FatBaldBoomer:

It was at luxury auto 2 weeks ago

I barely missed it! I started playing again this week after a long ass time haha...

[JossyFoxxy]

That'd mark it as the discussion answer but I don't want it to close yet.

I guess I just have to wait until the roster goes through the rest of 185 vehicles they got rid of...
From Grand Theft Auto to... Attempted Vehicular Misappropriation

[fabdsc]

Originally posted by JossyFoxxy:

I was wondering about how to acquire the Enus Stafford now that it's been removed with the mercenary updates. As completely idiotic as this decision was, I just want to know what to do about it.
The wiki says it can be obtained at the Casino Wheel when it's featured, however... I'm from Argentina and rockstar has disabled any and all gambling operations in the game for the region. This applies to any item and vehicle - so, is there a way?

No sabía que habían desactivado el Casino para Argentina, un garrón. En PC hay 2 maneras y solo 2 para conseguir esos autos que sacaron, con la rueda del casino o en la automotora de Simeon. Los rotan cada una semana aproximadamente. Hay una tercera opción para unos poquitos autos que los podés conseguir si tenés el taller pero para el Stafford no aplica lamentablemente.

[kr3m]

Originally posted by Blues Man:

Spinning a wheel once a day hardly qualifies as gambling, IMO.
I hope you can find a gov official or someone to complain to.

it's not the wheel that's an issue, it's the entire casino. The casino is not available in a few countries due to legalities and restrictions on gambling.

To OP: Best you can do at this point is keep an eye on Simeon's dealership and Luxury Motors (up near Dre's Studio). Looks like R* is rotating in cars they removed so the cars featured at these dealership have more purpose to buying them. The crappy part is we get 7 cars each week and they took out 180.. but, should be able to cycle each car about twice a year..

You can also keep an eye out for the LSCM Prize Ride each week. This is a free car you get by meeting the weekly challenge objective and it changes each week. Unlike the wheel, which is chance anyways, the Prize Ride challenge guarantees receipt of the vehicle (you do need to claim it from the menu after completing the challenge).

Edit: Have you tried using a VPN to change your location to a more gambling friendly/laxed country?

[JossyFoxxy]

Originally posted by fabdsc:

Originally posted by JossyFoxxy:

I was wondering about how to acquire the Enus Stafford now that it's been removed with the mercenary updates. As completely idiotic as this decision was, I just want to know what to do about it.
The wiki says it can be obtained at the Casino Wheel when it's featured, however... I'm from Argentina and rockstar has disabled any and all gambling operations in the game for the region. This applies to any item and vehicle - so, is there a way?

No sabía que habían desactivado el Casino para Argentina, un garrón. En PC hay 2 maneras y solo 2 para conseguir esos autos que sacaron, con la rueda del casino o en la automotora de Simeon. Los rotan cada una semana aproximadamente. Hay una tercera opción para unos poquitos autos que los podés conseguir si tenés el taller pero para el Stafford no aplica lamentablemente.

Y bue, es lo que hay...

El casino siempre estuvo, obvio, pero no se puede apostar o usar la rueda. Tampoco se puede comprar el cuarto de juego privado para la suite... Capaz alguna otra cosa que todavía no ví.

Antes no me molestaba, pero con esta actualización me arrepiento de no haber comprado muchas cosas jaja.

[JossyFoxxy]

Originally posted by kr3m:

Originally posted by Blues Man:

Spinning a wheel once a day hardly qualifies as gambling, IMO.
I hope you can find a gov official or someone to complain to.

it's not the wheel that's an issue, it's the entire casino. The casino is not available in a few countries due to legalities and restrictions on gambling.

To OP: Best you can do at this point is keep an eye on Simeon's dealership and Luxury Motors (up near Dre's Studio). Looks like R* is rotating in cars they removed so the cars featured at these dealership have more purpose to buying them. The crappy part is we get 7 cars each week and they took out 180.. but, should be able to cycle each car about twice a year..

You can also keep an eye out for the LSCM Prize Ride each week. This is a free car you get by meeting the weekly challenge objective and it changes each week. Unlike the wheel, which is chance anyways, the Prize Ride challenge guarantees receipt of the vehicle (you do need to claim it from the menu after completing the challenge).

Edit: Have you tried using a VPN to change your location to a more gambling friendly/laxed country?

Ah I just addressed that in the reply in Spanish.
The casino's always been there. You can visit it, hang around, do the heists, etc. You can't, however, gamble or spin the wheel. The private game room and croupier for the suite is also unavailable for purchase.

It didn't bother me as much as it does now with the latest update... I regret not getting a handful of the removed vehicles when I had the chance.

As for the VPN, I did consider it. After googling for a while I decided it wasn't worth the risk. They can potentially ban both your R* and steam account for that... Yeah I'd just have a sudden start

Edit: Yeah I read the inclusion of removed vehicles to both new deluxe dealerships. Sad thing is, there's too many to cycle through. I really don't know what they smoked when coming up with that idea, the whole let's cut the amount of accessible vehicles in half hoping people would purchase our membership.

[Aero]

Very helpful

[JossyFoxxy]

It's been helpful!
I now know that it can be purchased at the deluxe dealerships if I'm lucky to catch it and people have learned about gambling banned in games in some countries

[Zero McDol]

You wait for RNG, and prepare for endless disappointment as the cars that you want never appear.

Well, good luck.

[kr3m]

Originally posted by JossyFoxxy:

there's too many to cycle through.

Yes, but at the same time, not really.. people act like they're never going to see the car they want again..

Case in point:

Originally posted by Zero McDol:

prepare for endless disappointment as the cars that you want never appear.

Yes, 180+ cars is a lot. However, when cycling 7 each week, that's ~26 cycles to cover all of them. There's 52 weeks in a year and we get a new rotation of cars each week.. which means most cars will be available within at least 6 months of growing the itch/desire for the vehicle.. there's often more time than that between DLCs..