Not the best analogy, 'cause if a car owner decides to stop driving his car, or puts it up for sale at a laughably exorbitant price, the only person affected is himself.
Rolling with the vehicular theme (*rimshot*), I'd compare it to public transportation: a service that tens of thousands of people were relying on has been callously discontinued, and its operators are now demanding ludicrous sums of money if the suckers... er, customers... want it restored.