Easy, ban bots by ip’s instead of their account.
Think about it, this will happen,… No farmers for gold, GDKP’s money/runs will fall heavy, more players will play, because of easyer AH.
Only way this post gets down rated is the gold buyers
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They may have dynamic ip addresses and then it wouldn’t work, unless you ban the whole IP range which may cause some collateral damage. VPNs need to go though, as I assume most operate while using those.
Hardware bans are another option but that is spoofable as well. Maybe go for a combination of both? Or, hey, what about just hiring a couple people to look at reports 
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Just permaban them, what most botters do is have 2 accounts so that when one comes off the ban and another gets banned and they just swap accounts. It’s the six month ban cycle.
Bans should be by MAC address.
Apparently there is a whole department looking at them and he’s very busy.
Few euro for new network card and you get new MAC id.
Im getting new IP adress every 24 hours.
AMAZING IDEA now just go tell every game, because all games have botters that all they had to do was IP ban them 
They aren’t going to stop bots, Blizzard is fully capable of doing so but why would they when they make millions every month from bots? I feel like people believe Blizzard have the players interests in mind despite the botting problem being worse now than it was 15 years ago when they had not the same tools available to detect them.
The botting problem during the last 5 years is worse than it has ever been, and that’s because Blizzard has no incentive to fix the problem in any meaningful way, that would cost them millions in profits.
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If you know blizzard is capable of doing it, why don’t you tell everyone how they can big iq? + literally everything you said is wrong 
Literally everything I said is correct and if you think otherwise you need to go shout at a wall or something. In the past Blizzard used to ban bots far more effectively than they do now, where they track them for months and then ban them in 6month waves, and they are back the next week with new boosted chars.
It’s not big IQ, they used to have customer support for every server cleaning up the servers, now everything is automated and tracked but not actioned on. Blizzard can do a million things to make botting more difficult and they do nothing, because every bot is a sub and a boost fee, millions in profit. Private servers with 10s of thousands of players being run by a couple of volunteers do a better job of banning bots.
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Wrong Glider was a huge issue “15 years ago” and Blizzard could detect bots back with Warden.
Honnorbuddy botting was probably the worst and that was 10 years ago.
Wrong, Blizzard had real issues with shutting down certain bots permanently.
They have always done this.
How?
Ur either a troll or naive.
I really wish life was as simple as you make it look like but even Forest Gump knew "Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you’re going to get.”
Blizzard can detect bots far better now than they can back then, and any problem 10 years ago is far worse now. The sheer volume of bots in relation to players is far higher now, you’re sitting there with your blinders on oblivious if you think otherwise, especially by pointing out “honorbuddy” which was genuine players botting for easy gear progression, not the goldfarming bots of today.
And yes Blizzard has never fixed bots permanently, but bots have never had it so easy. This isn’t black and white situation, it’s a scaling factor. If Blizzard banned bots faster they would make it unsustainable for the bots to continue making a profit but instead they ban bots at just the rate where the botters can make a profit while paying Blizzard sub fees.
Blizzard allows botting to remain very profitable in order that they get their share of the profits via boosts. Do you actually think that Blizzard wants to get rid of the bots? Are you so delusional as to think that?
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Can’t you also just edit your MAC address via Windows settings?
How do you know this? you are just saying stuff without fact or evidence.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHeSHT2ZDnU so your issue is not with individuals botting but rather large farms?
what does this even mean 
How would they ban bots faster?
Regardless of my opinion you are saying Blizzard can do all this stuff to prevent botting when you have provided no evidence they can or methods of how to do it?
You’re acting like detecting bots is some big difficult issue, it’s not, any player with ingame tools can detect them, imagine what a single Blizzard employee with some tools can do?
Bots do not play the game the same way, they do not take part in the same activities, they do not follow the same patterns in any way, they do not have the same response times… All of these things can be tracked and measured with tools, but a simple human being with some tools and a job can cripple botting, just like they do on private servers.
Of course you can’t permanantly fix the issue by banning them, the goal is to make botting not worthwhile, then the problem fades to become a much lesser problem. Blizzard isn’t attempting to do this because botting makes them millions, they do not want to fix the botting problem and if you think they do then you’re just a lost cause.
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I’ve asked you how 3x time and you still can’t tell me you just say oh they can use a tool or its not a difficult issue but you are yet to say how which lead me to believe you dont have a clue and are just crying on the forums over something you dont like but have no idea about.
Can all be added to bots very easily.
No where did i say they do or dont want to do it.
I explained to you how you can track and ban bots several times in my previous posts, you are purposely ignoring it and repeating the question because you know you’re wrong, you know you’re hanging on a thread and you know I’m 100% correct.
Now stop trying to save face, stop trying to hold on to any thread of hope you have of winning this exchange with your delusions. You need to wake up and smell the roses.
quote yourself where you showed the specifics of how to ban these bots?
What do you mean how to ban the bots? Do you think Blizzard has a hard time figuring out how to ban an account?
keep twisting words you know what i meant. Tell me how they are supposed to detect these bots and ban them constantly as you proposed you must know as you said it was so easy.