They should give us an ability that forces another player to complete a captcha to prove it isn’t a bot. If it fails the test the account gets deleted.
a) it’s not that simple
b) I’m enjoying cheap cheap mats
c) blizzard swims in the bot sub revenue like scrooge mcduck
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this might just be one of the worst ideas ever proposed here on General Discussion
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So something you spam at people in pvp?
Do the captcha and lose the fight or get account deleted 
you can set up a vm to be indistinguishable from physical hardware assuming you aren’t completely inept
I thought it was a pretty good idea.
FWIW there is literally CAPTCHA automated services already. Botters will just use this to negate captcha.
There is no obvious solution to solving bots. You stick security in and they will just make smarter bots to counter it as long as it remains profitable.
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This would be a great way to troll people who had to AFK for a bio break or who are busily trying to fight off the masses of mobs that Blizzard populates every inch of their modern zones with. Did you stop to think this idea through?
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I can see so many ways this can get abused. What if you were afk getting lunch or checking the mail and some random troll throws some random bot check fight scene at you to check your anti bot credentials.
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That won’t get abused at all. 
But I like the line of thinking, you just can’t give players that much power and it not be an issue.
Well I said it before and I will say it again. TO stop this 100% we just need to do 2 things and the bot problem is gone forever, but you aint gonna like it 
- Make all crafting materials SOULBOUND.
- Make all crafted items SOULBOUND.
Problem solved and no more bots.
Everyone happy?
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if you’re going to take it that far, just get rid of crafting.
I wouldn’t play a game where I had to farm my own herbs for flasks, my own leather for armor kits, my own fish for feasts. that sounds awful.
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No such thing, and even if hypothetically someone developed a way to do that, it would also take literally SECONDS to get around, with zero third party software.
Why? I love making my own gear.
It’s a major selling point of RPing a character.
it’s just stops the wanna be robber barons abusing the AH
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You expect me to do all the thinking? Hello I’m not getting paid to solve the problem. ION should fix his game.
Just make everything soulbound… solves all the problems.
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So your way of playing is the only right way?
I hate gathering. I love crafting. I love selling my crafts.
Your idea means one of the major parts of the game I enjoy is gone.
It also doens’t solve the problem. Sure it gets rid of bots, but the complaint is bots are making the prices tank. Making it so you can’t sell on the AH will mean the price is vendor price only - which is much lower than AH for anything that can be gathered.
It also means people will have to choose professions based on the content they do. Raid? You have to do enchanting and alchemy. etc. etc.
There absolutely is a way, but reality is it’s not worth the effort if it means retrofitting an existing solution as it’s a rather trivial thing to spoof that anyone who’s botting likely has enough IQ to get around.
And we never have to hear any whining ever again!
Players become Renaissance people and handle their own business.
They also get too busy to complain about not having anything to do
Proposing “hardware bans” might as well be proposing magic. Hardware bans are just as possible as me going out and tossing flame shocks and lava bursts IRL. You have to invoke magic because that’s what would be required.
The only way to have a “hardware ban” is if a WOW account came with a computer, completely owned and managed by Blizzard, with the physical hardware restricted by physical locks and security guards. And someone always standing behind you while you use it.
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