There are a lot of kill quests though.
So it would be nice to have some setup where you can be semi-AFK to do those at least.
Plus to perhaps do mundain tasks automatically. To say nothing of farming (for gear, etc).
The item shop isn't open in beta, but it looks like it won't be so dependent like some games.
The protection is described here:

As a matter of fact it's the first game to use this new system.
For CE users, there is apparently some type of system where they can lock down, or just hash/verify some memory between writes.
Then it's just a matter of finding it and disabling it, and, or, make some CE plug-in that interfaces with it.
It doesn't use a system driver like the old StarForce, and IMHO a lot of what they claim is hype.
I made a good dump (for reversing, not running) of the client pretty easy with just
normal unpacking tools.
The client is just huge however..