Cash shop confirmed

[Catsby]

Then I will just buy it. I doubt I will have to take out a second mortgage.....

Whether or not you can afford it isn't the problem. The problem is that you are willing to hand over real money instead of fighting a boss or hiring a crafter for it. Once you start doing that the developers start producing slightly fewer bosses and crafting recipes. Over the next couple years (if you bothered to stick around that long) we missed out on several updates worth of content because the systems and resources to produce it went directly to the cash shop instead.