Pretty sure this has been answered a lot. The extra ships and add-ons are not required to complete the game and nothing is locked from being accessed by not having them. The theory (I assume) is that you can just buy an extra ship or two if you particularly like the look of that ship and want to play it in the game. If people lik the extra stuff and swapping them around then they will buy them. If not then people will either play with just the starter set or won't buy the game: problem solved. This is much better to my mind than all these "pay to win" games on mobile devices that expect you to fork out £40 on "gems" just to purchase a different outfit for your characters. At least the money gets you a well-made ship toy that you can play with and for the quality of the add-ons I don't consider the price to be wildly inappropriate and it is definitely not worth getting angry about.
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