@wolfmanbush
based on what? "should be plenty" is fine for a personal opinion but based on what?
This thread is my personal opinion. I find it absurd people have jumped in to ''defend'' Rare and Microsoft when i'm clearly just stating that the ship set prices are too high in my opinion, which is stopping me from buying them. I'm reminding Rare that if they lower those prices, they'd sell more copies. Whether or not that is financially beneficial for them at the end of the day, who knows.
Ofcourse Rare needs to sell cosmetics to keep the game alive. This is the core of all live service games, but i also play live service games like Hunt Showdown and Deep Rock Galactic that get many free updates over years, and i've bought much more in those games because the prices are much more reasonable. I'm getting a nice amount of stuff for a few bucks.
I see a cool new ship set come out, check the Emporium, and fall off my chair when i see the total price, then exit the Emporium. I'm sure many people have this experience that would otherwise spend money rather than pick up their jaw and proceed to not spend anything.