It is an option and im sure Tokens will happen in TBC.
Blizzard will be all like “this is a weapon against gold buyers” and then a couple of weeks later they will be interested in mass banning bots, becuase of actual direct monetary competition.
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It is not competition. Bots are generating gold by performing various farming activities. Tokens are not generating gold, it only allows player to sell game time for gold to other players.
Automated system that blizzard implemented to ban bots doesnt work. Or rather it works too slow. So unless blizzard hires some GMs , TBC will be a clown fiesta.
I have a friend who has been botting for 2 months straight (farming herbs for his alchemy, doing battlegrounds etc all night and day when he was away) and only half a year later he got banned.
Now imagine if my friend was running a bot farm with dozen if not hundred of bots farming gold and selling it. One could not only afford buying these hundreds of accounts (or rather buying stolen accounts cheaply on the grey market), but actually make a living out of it.
The only real solution is hiring GMs. I think anyone can agree that just 1 or 2 of them per server is enough to kill off all the bots proactively. Sure it’s a profit loss because you have to pay them. But it would cultivate a happy fanbase. And happy fanbase keeps on subscribing. I for one am not happy about classic, but I still play it because I have fun with my guild for 4 hours per week. The rest of the time I’m playing I feel regretfull wasting my money on the subscription, because I know that the economy is completely ruined thus spoiling the only thing left to do in classic atm - farm gold. Sure you could say one could level alts (which I do) or get pvp ranks (I got r13, but had to stop because of the bots and RMT).
Bots and RMT ruined the game, introduced p2w and overall spoiled the fun.
But because blizzard are not losing the money they can’t be bothered to invest in solving the problem. And if anyone tells them that people are leaving the game because of the RMT and bots, all they have to say is “People lost interest because its a 15y old game and you think you want to play it, but you don’t; not because of the bots, we are banning them.”
Then again, like a person above me mentioned, they could implement tokens which I would honestly dislike, but would accept if bots and RMT are gone… yet it wont be, because it still exists in retail to this day on a massive scale.
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I think Richdude summed it up in other bot topic:
"Blizzard have decided to not touch the bots so they can announce tokens with tbc. The announcement will be something along these lines: “Since we have tried all other options available to us without being able to remove bots at a rate that meets player expectations, we have decided to introduce blizzard tokens to classic TBC.”
As soon as tokens have been introduced Blizzard will find some magic code that bans most bots within hours of being reported."
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So, nobody pays bots real money for gold? Suuuuuuure.
Thats the “monetary competition” im talking about. Blizzard will want people to buy tokens instead and claim it as a “weapon against bots”, just like in retail.
The only way to make it bot-free is to drive the gold value quite low with cheap WoW token and friends and limit loot trading in PUGs and similar groups 
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