Monkey MAC wrote:Ryme Intrinseca wrote:Michael Arck wrote:Nothing was misleading about you spending 20 bucks for AUR.
I'm going to bed now, but I'll leave a challenge for anyone who wants to come into this thread and dispute the basis for a claim under UK consumer protection regulations. Tell me which step of the following is false in your judgment:
1. Over the last several months CCP provided misleading information/deceptively presented information (e.g. 'laser-focused on PS3', 'fully committed to developing Dust').
2. This resulted in consumers making different decisions than they otherwise would (e.g. to buy AUR).
3. Therefore, a misleading action has occurred and consumer protection regulations have been breached.
At the moment you guys are just swinging wildly, for instance conflating steps 1 and 2 like Michael Arck here, and not even starting to engage with the legal argument. Hopefully the above structure will help you to arrange your thoughts more coherently.
Statement 2 is false, unless the majority of the playerbase believed DUST to be near out of commision, which most of us did not, you might have a valid case, except for the fact that CCP stopped saying DUST and started saying 'Games within the new eden universe'
like they did here! Statement two is
NOT false, and certainly not for the reasons you seem to think it is.
Statement two is accurate, I am an example of statement two.
By not disclosing that planned and advertised development of expanded content on DUST 514 for the PS3 had radically shifted (read:
HALTED) months ago, long before fanfest and long before that quote of yours (which really doesn't prove the point you think it does, by the way) I continued to purchase aurum as though nothing had changed.
As far as I was made aware, everything was on the same track four days ago that it had been on for the past year, as attested to by CCP personnel in interviews and press events.
I was making purchases based upon bad information that CCP had disseminated, and my purchases may have well been very different had CCP informed the player base (and by extension, me) about the change in development direction before or at the time that such change was made.
By continuing to operate as if nothing had changed (and in fact making
ASSURANCES that nothing had changed) in the development direction of DUST 514, CCP engaged in a deception of the community, a lie of omission if not a straight bald-faced lie. Acting upon that deceiving information, people (like myself) made purchases we otherwise might not have.
This is a clear example of fulfillment of conditions one and two. Which means that condition three may well have been met.