Yes that is correct.
so for 20$ you can buy yourself a new server.
or for that same 20$ you can get yourself a gold account.
Who's going to take HPD? Fools and newbs.
Or people who have a gold account.
I'm going to hop on the bandwagon here: no game should allow you to buy your way to success at no cost of time or skill. There are two places I know of where you can legitimately buy money in-game: Puzzle Pirates and Second Life. Second Life isn't really a game: it's more of a virtual country, and as such, exchanging money makes perfect sense. In Puzzle Pirates, your character's skill is directly proportional to yours: Your character's ability to swordfight depends on the sword you use (which can be bought) and your skill in a tetris variant (which can't).
In both, you can't buy success, only a better chance. Here, I can buy success. Now granted a full set of .9 software costs $10,000, but for about $600, I can get the best cracking software, and while it will probably cost a bit to allow me to use it, I bet that with $1000, I could bring a new account into the top 20 within a week.
And while I'm sure Emi would appreciate that in the short run, it might just kill the game in the long run.