If gaijin was a public traded company that could be the case, but being a privately traded one is not much of an issue especially in the context of aprils fools
They can though it was april 1st there for they can say “well they day is all about pranks they should have known” there is no legal action that can be taken against them
the laws from each country around the world are totally different from each other in my country This ends in a lawsuit for false advertising or misleading advertising with malice and public deceit no matter if it is april fools or not they should be really carefull with what they do. i dont know on other countries how this works but here gaijin would be in real troubles.
For context, this Reddit link leads to a now-deleted post on r/Warthunder (the user’s account was deleted for an unknown reason), with a screenshot of the user contacting customer support and asking whether the infantry trailer was an April Fools joke, and the representative replying that it is not a joke. The image, now not visible, definitely looked authentic when I saw it earlier today.
a lot of people doesn´t care and does not know what is april fools mate and they even dont know in what day is april fools and again if you read my comment again i was really direct IN MY COUNTRY THIS IS A LAWSUIT no matter what. they should be really carefull with what they do and say because each country have different laws and this is not new its not simple as someone here said “its april fools” tadaaaa!!! and problem solved haha thats not how it works guys.
False advertising as I understand it would have only mattered if gaijin made any money of the sale of infantry combat.
If they had been upselling the idea of turning war thunder into an FPS for months or had sold specific infantry based content and then never followed through on it, then it mgiht be considered false advertising.
in this regard there is reasonable expectation that it wasnt real and there has been no such upselling of the game or products through the use of what is more than likely an april fool joke .
I strongly doubt Gaijin or any other game could actually genuinely be sued for false advertisement over this and only maybe in the US. Here in Europe, they probably wouldnt be.