Lineage 2 was the same. Honestly I had no fantasy about NCSoft NA being able to patch anything in within 1 month of discovering a problem.

You might have noticed that the patches that are coming through are issues that addresses Korean gamer's concerns, the fact that these happen to match partially to NA player concerns is just mere happy coincidence.

Would any sane NA player ever suggest that the way to combat resource gathering bots is to create a captcha in game?