Higher prices is better for the vast majority of the players though because we can sell stuff and not have to grind our eyes out to actually get somewhere or buy a token or whatever you want to do with your gold.
if you look at it from an economical standpoint people were making way too much money by being able to do that, you were actually making more money by multi-boxing with those programs matching your keystrokes in each client than just running bots and have them do stuff separately and that's where the problem comes from.