I love your idea that the developers are testing the waters to see exactly what people will pay for, and people are flinging money at anything and offering to pay more and more (for example the Chinese gear) at some point these same people will suddenly think "hang on a minute" and realise we are getting charged again for things we are already paying for in our sub, or they will suddenly not be able to pour the same amount of cash in and feel locked out.

We have already proven that we will swallow any price on anything they put in the cash shop and so have encouraged the devs to put more and more in there. It's so sad and discouraging.

My argument about the cash shop has always been that everything should be available in game first and the cash shop should ONLY be used for people to catch up. Every item they put in there pushes my further away. Sadly I'm in the minority.