AL will always will be a buisness first. If you as a company sell locks u want it to be enticing for your customers to buy (were not even players at this point just customers). So what do u do? Sell extremely good gear in them. Whos gonna buy plat to open locks when the stuff in it is only like5% better? Exactly barely anyone. Spacetime studios is sadly jusy not what it used to be. They know they cant get new players into their ecosystem so they milk the current one they have.

Also im kinda baffled they can still sell (lootboxes) locks without giving away the loot chances % for any of their locks. Which i thought was mandatory in EU.

I guess they can technically argue u can 'farm' plat with plat eggs or offers and crate keys with in-game gold