Cash shop confirmed

[Zohnax]

If some players are planning to quit VanityShop, they have a pretty childish mentality. Why were you playing the game in the first place? How does VanityShop affect sudden stop that?

Don't come at me with the assumptions, "Slippery slope into Pay2Win," or, "potential content that would normally be put into the game." The former was shot down immediately as they made the announcement. The latter is like arguing that because someone pirated a movie, that they would have gone out and bought that movie, and thus it's a lost sale. You can't assume potentials to be exact.
Half of VanityShop is stuff from past Seasonal Events and Slepnir didn't have a price tag next to it, so...

...all this drama over Vanity? My bewilderment on here never ceases.

EDIT: How're some of you going to feel if they end up making the minions Veteran Rewards down the road and Odin comes in at 2.5?

But they came with content. Not just on their own. Now those items will be introduced with no ingame content to go with them. Thus is the game diminished.

This is only half right. They were built off of content already in-game. (i.e. new maps for the map system and more fish for fishing)