I didn't enjoy shelling out $14 for the new emotes, but I did it anyway because I'm a sucker for emotes. I'd use a more risqué term than sucker, but there are rules here. I lied... I did enjoy it. Judging from the sheer number of people I saw forming dead piles and doing backflips yesterday, SE is making bank on this and will see it as a huge success. It means we'll probably see more of it. Fortunately it seems we're getting those WITH a new holiday emote as well and just after getting the dote emote from vday. For now I'm cautiously optimistic that the cash shop is incentivizing SE to give us more emotes, rather than just shifting content to the cash shop. Maybe pdead and backflip wouldn't exist without the cash shop. It helps me sleep better to think that anyway.

I'm ok with the cash shop as long as it stays cosmetic.