> @coldnapalm said:No...strawman logic requires an absurd statement that nobody claims. The fact that you think a few 30 dollar account unlocks can keep the lights on and keep the devs paid is absurd..
What do you mean "a few"? What data are you basing that statement on? Because from the looks of things flying around in game, the majority of ships are from the game store. There are a lot more than "a few" purchases being made.
If I went on the record, in any capacity, saying that I disagreed with a major business practice my employer had used for years, I'd probably get in at least a little trouble, if not terminated outright.
No dev would ever risk potential disciplinary action to answer a player question. Their opinions on this topic will only ever be heard in meetings behind the scenes, meetings we will never know anything about.
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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What do you mean "a few"? What data are you basing that statement on? Because from the looks of things flying around in game, the majority of ships are from the game store. There are a lot more than "a few" purchases being made.
No dev would ever risk potential disciplinary action to answer a player question. Their opinions on this topic will only ever be heard in meetings behind the scenes, meetings we will never know anything about.
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.