It's pretty strange when you think about it. I just started playing 2 days ago, so I don't know much about the game, but doesn't it seem like Nexon is just allowing people to hack? Haven't a couple of months passed since they game was released? Still no patch? I mean think of maplestory... that shit was exactly the same when they released it. Everyone had godmode, amazing VACS, autoloot, etc. And it remained like that for a long time, then once the servers got populated and shit got crazy, they took the good VACs away, then we had to actually bypass security shit to even activate godmode... etc etc. Just little by little.. it's gonna happen again.
I think Nexon's strategy to get people to start playing is allowing people to cheat, which draws in a lot of people. I mean I'm sure they could just set a certain flag that only server or admins can execute console commands. Look at Counter Strike servers, you cant go in and just start modifying gravity or kicking/banning people, you need an admin flag on AMX or user access on the server. The people they ban currently are just people getting reported. They don't even bother checking out logs of completions, times it took, bosses killed in how many seconds/how many bosses total killed in 1 day, etc. I think they're just gonna let people hack until they get a huge population, then just cut the commands and really start banning people.