Emotes in the cash shop..

[Jynx]

During the EU Fanfest Yoshi talked in about how what's made from the cash shop he puts back into the community, and one of the highlights was helping establish a new EU side server. Whether you choose to deny it and be cynical, thinking everyone is a fork-tongued devil, then that's on you.

Perhaps your not much into game news but developers lie all the time.

Wether it's fake tailers labled as "Gameplay" to only be something that doesn't exist in reality.(Gearbox)
Graphical fedelity in gameplay demos that never make the final game. (Ubisoft)(Sony)(many others)
Developers promising to delay games if they are buggy broken messes only to launch it as a buggy broken mess anyways (Ubisoft)

I could go on but developers are like any other businessman especially in the AAA business.

If you think that the cash shop is funding the EU servers your dreaming.

I should add that.

It's always this sense of awkward adorableness reading people act out scenarios. It just makes them sound silly enough you just wanna give them a pat on the head and a cookie.

My scenario is the only one that makes sense, in your world Yoshida bust into the head office and demanded servers for EU. They then told him the only way is if they could monitize the game to afford it.