Decayed

I was like you but then I realized the reality now is every room/zone is filled with people afk or botting. Might as well add it to the game instead of making it a secretive 3rd party thing.

is it really step 1, I feel like a lot of steps have already been taken by NCSoft

The reason the community clamored for no looping macros is because we thought this would be a new clean server void of bots and RMT. But no, it's actually rampant, and maybe even more noticeably than before because of the low pop. Just turn it back on, it will make the game last longer.