It's not about semantics. It's about context. From the moment those BPOs were first introduced back in closed beta to the moment CCP removed them from the market, it was made very clear that those BPOs, from the general understanding of the players all the way to the dev blogs, game-review sites, and beyond, were permanent in terms of having infinite supply of said item. They were permanent because they were non-consumable in the battlefield.

and remained in your inventory....and I don't remember the exact wording anymore but blueprints were described as being permanent items in your inventory.

and lets face it was also always implied they were ours to keep.

Ccp is not legally obligated to refund anything

This is how I understand it, the actual Bpos aren't the issue here. I think we can all agree they are pretty useless. The real issue is that ccp has removed these bpos from players inventory. Most people who I have seen posting feel wronged and think that ccp has a conspiracy to remove all bpos.
I believe what stemmed most of this was a post by ccp logibro stating that certain packs would be removed from the market place, but bpos in players inventories would remain. This was stated before ccp had decided to remove the moduals/bpos.
Ccp frame then made a post about the 4 bpos in question and how their moduals, and subsequently the bpos for those moduals were going to be removed.
Many people believe this is ccp telling a lie and cheating them.

Logibros post was about the removal of packs and reassuring those who bought packs with bpos that the removal of the packs would not affect their already purchased bpos. Logibros post was truthful, the bpos werent removed. Nor were any bpos.

Ccp frame then posted about the removal of 4 specific

bpos that conflicted with the vehicle rebalancing patch and that the moduals and bpos would be removed and refunded at full price.

(I really want to clear this up as they keep bringing it up as proof that ccp is going back on their word when clearly they aren't)

This made a few players very insecure about their aur and bpos. They felt that ccp could now take away all their bpos. They feel that giving a full price aur refund is not enough to compensate for ccp removing the bpos. They thought bpos would always be in their inventory no matter the changes to the game and are shocked that they too are liable to change. So they are outraged.

They were compensated for the removal. All other bpos are remaining in their inventories just like ccp said. The items they are refunding are equal to or greater than their original investment. In your case midas, it is now worth more than your initial investment. Ccp has never said anything about bpos being permanent items, if you thought they were then obviously you were wrong.

It is my opinion that ccp hasn't stepped over their bounds. They are being fair and honest with what they are doing. Items have not lost value but even gained some. Freaking out over this is pointless.

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Here's my view as a long time buyer of merc packs and aurum.

- In the upcoming patch I have one module being removed (a militio vehicle BPO) and I'm getting a refund (4800 aurum I believe). Now I have no problem with the removal of the module, or the refund.

- What I DO have a problem with is that now there is little use for Aurum. There are no more BPO's on the marketplace, these were by far the best value when using aurum. There are expendable items, which I don't need, since their only use is for using items which you aren't skilled for (in itself, a weird concept since you won't be effective on the battlefield with them anyway), and this in a game where you can burn through up to 10 suits or more in a single battle, they are terrible value. It leaves boosters, which I have plenty of due to my purchases of aforementioned merc packs.

- So this leaves two acceptable options for those affected:

1. Improve the aurum marketplace - more/different boosters, vanity BPO items, aurum-respecs,etc.
2. Give me a BPO of the equivalent module that is replacing the deprecated one.

I think it's in CCP's best interest to improve the uses of Aurum, considering it is their primary revenue stream at work. If there is little use for the currency, what use is there buying it - which begs the question, where else do you get your revenue from in this free to play game?

DE didn't remove the stats on the helmets that had them, and if memory serves explicitly stated they were staying on those particular helmets.

All future helmets will come without stats, though.

Unless I misunderstood and you meant hypothetical.