A few hour Blu-ray won't give you near the entertainment time that a game or comparable hobby will. You'll watch it once, then maybe once again if you really liked it, then maybe you might watch it again a few years later.Then it's mostly just collecting dust. In fact more so given the popularity of streaming.
It's dirt cheap compared to something like horseback riding, shooting sports, cars, or scuba diving.It's just that this is easy to criticize as you can see the price tag easily vs looking at half a dozen receipts for the other hobbies.
Fair enough. However, if you consider the entertainment value delivered over time, the costs can be very low. If you count it is as a 20$ a month movie ticket, you could pledge/buy a Hammerhead in around 2 years. The game and its users have been around much longer then that. It's a game that can deliver hours and hours of entertainment each weekend. The price per hour would be low, and there are other hobbies much more expensive then this.
Even if the game were to shutter and you were to lose access to your ships, you'd still have that value delivered over time like a bunch of movie tickets. Also, you don't buy ships. You pledge to support the development of the game. You can also buy a Hammerhead in game quickly if you know what game loops to target.
Fwiw, you can get deep discounts CCU chaining ships. Ships can also be unofficially "sold" and "bought" after the fact. It's done through gifting. For example, you can get the Hammerhead at the impound for less then half the price. The impound is also one of the higher priced sites to. There are also unofficial ships sales on reddit to that have even lower prices.
Edit-Looks like a time limited sale, nevertheless, SC-trades on reddit has some Hammerheads for around 500.
They just haven't rolled it out to you yet.
Americans don't know about this little secret.
My colorization work this time comes from the U.S. National Archives. It's of Motor Machinists Mate Third Class Chester Jones Jr. meeting with his father Capt. Jones Sr. It was taken as he was came home from the Normandy Landings.
MM3 Jones served onboard one of the rescue cutters during the landings. These rescue cutters were able to save more then 1,400 men from drowning and certain death in the English Channel.
Here's one of my colorizations. It's of a Coast Guard landing party undergoing training party in the Pacific. The original comes from the Coast Guard Historian's Office.
