Yes, I believe that the Devs, as players and humans, if they were going to be given the choice of "semi-cheap C-store purchase" or "highly likely to be massively expensive lockbox acquisition" - they're gonna vote "C-store".
Just because you would rather just get everything on the cheap, you shouldn't assume everyone else thinks the same.
As a player and a human, I would not want to see lockbox ships reduced to "semi-cheap C-Store purchases." The rarity of lockbox ships is what makes collecting them interesting.
Money is only one point of lock boxes. The other point is they're a system of control so that not everyone can just buy a ship that CBS doesn't want thousands of in the game. This is why lock box ships are rare or alien designs and why there's a very low chance of getting one. It's so there are still tons of people flying standard Federation/Klingon/Romulan ships.
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As a player and a human, I would not want to see lockbox ships reduced to "semi-cheap C-Store purchases." The rarity of lockbox ships is what makes collecting them interesting.
This. Half the price of a brand new video game only gives you one single ship. That is most certainly NOT cheap.