You should figure out how to start 9 accounts by yourself and make them run 24/7 or spend hundreds dollars and have fun at least for few weeks, because for the long term without boxes you will not survive here. The key is to have your own full party online,
They will not change this, sad but true.
NCsoft earnings are good for last 9 months, somehow this system of L2bot is working good for them, and as long as it's profitable they will keep it.
You can check on NCsoft web page earnings releases, they publish them for public.