To establish that an advertisement is false, a plaintiff must prove five things: (1) a false statement of fact has been made about the advertiser's own or another person's goods, services, or commercial activity; (2) the statement either deceives or has the potential to deceive a substantial portion of its targeted audience; (3) the deception is also likely to affect the purchasing decisions of its audience; (4) the advertising involves goods or services in interstate commerce; and (5) the deception has either resulted in or is likely to result in injury to the plaintiff. The most heavily weighed factor is the advertisement's potential to injure a customer. The injury is usually attributed to money the consumer lost through a purchase that would not have been made had the advertisement not been misleading. False statements can be defined in two ways: those that are false on their face and those that are implicitly false.

They didn't sell you the attributes though , or did the armor pack give their exact stats?
Also, the in-game items belong to CCP and they can adjust them as they see fit, all you bought was having those items credited to your account.

If you payed extra for a car with a V8 in it only to wake up and find out that the manufacturer replaced it with a V6 while you were sleeping, wouldn't you be angry? I purchased an armor pack to test the tanks out... then I purchased a ton more once I saw the PG on the Credron HAV.

Everything in this game is subject to change, how is that not clear? CCP would have a lawsuit on their hands everytime they changed any stats if that wasn't the case.

You guys can try court though

Exactly right... if they do anything to existing tanks, I will probably never buy aurum again, period ever.

Its not legality issues at stake, its ethics.

They can take those tanks off the market and sell updated versions of the tanks, but they should never, ever, mess with the existing tanks that were already purchased.

If the AA pack is still on the market, the best solution would be to take it down now. Redo the stats, and upload it back up.

The existing tanks will remain, and just slow be removed from the market through attrition and vehicle destruction.

They shouldn't implement refunds or anything like that... just leave the already purchased tanks the way they are.

The sad thing is that I have to buy a bunch of merc packs since they are going away(or at least changing) on the 14th.

CCP, feel free to send me that message too

1. Did the terms of sale include the stats on the tanks? No. Your "false advertising" claim is invalid.

2. Did the terms of sale specify that the tanks are "Militia" vehicles? Yes. You should have been expecting Militia stats.

3. Is DUST advertised as specifically NOT being pay-to-win and has it had multiple weapons and modules with better-than-ISK-variant stats rebalanced to function identically to the ISK version? Yes. You should have, at worst, been expecting the same statlines as the Gunnlogi and Madrugar, but without the prerequisites.

Who in their right mind would pay money for items in a closed beta without a promise of those items being refunded on release?

Oh yeah, WE DIDN'T. Merc Pack came with exactly that promise when many people bought it. I haven't seen many voices supporting our rights, and unlike your complaint, the stats you're complaining about weren't included in the terms of the purchase agreement you made. The Merc Pack's conditions on purchase specifically included mention of a full credit on release, which is now, after the fact, being made conditional on a case-by-case reset rather than being applied as agreed.

I don't see many people supporting that argument in these forums, but you seem perfectly content to complain about a less-valid desire to keep pay-to-win items that you really should have seen the nerf-hammer coming for.