well, IMC is dead set on making players waste their time with TOS. These events are now always a month long, forcing you to do old content again and again (or spam CM/DS) to get the best rewards, on top of being logged in for several hours.
It feels like enforced recycling as already successfully implemented for other MMORPGs in the past.
Auto-CM is according to the developers just a band-aid solution to the fact that there are not enough tanks and healers to actually play the game the way it was “balanced”.
It became the easy solution to reputation quests,though, so on top of being “easy” it allowed macro users/botters to have a new way to earn silver, leading to the situation now after silver was removed from the field drops and nerfed for dungeons.
I’m not forcing anyone to do field CMs (I quit myself because the game is boring,repetitive and unbalanced without hope), just giving a realistic answer to the case because we’ve seen how IMC acts in the past. Only god and IMC knows how many of the people playing on SteamCharts are actually bots/macro users and their multiple accounts, the game might be more dead than we are aware, thus the staff is reluctant to remove these “active players”.
And maybe some of them even spend money (wasn’t that a case in the past were certain botters had some sort of immunity due to spending money on the game?), making the staff more reluctant to remove their clients.
Oh,the tragedy unfolding in IMCs headquarters! Brandishing the banhammer over the head of the macroing player, he argues with himself like Hamlet “to ban or not to ban, that is the question”, just to ultimately not ban the player, ending up laid-off as a heroic sacrifice to be remembered for eternity in the chronicles of Rune Mi… wrong game, I actually forgot the name of the world of TOS
game fun -3/10, forum drama fun 13/10