Trading for guns is smarter, more productive and ultimately more efficient that sitting around with your thumb up your ass waiting for a random chance drop. Plus trading would allow players to put prices on in-game items, give them some degree of freedom within the game to start making it their own rather than deal with the RNG bullshit.
A player based, player run and player driven economy is one sure fire way to make the game last longer due to its MMO nature, not that Bungie knows anything about making decent MMO's.
Destiny is shit and needs players to put that breath of life into it. These Cut-Content releases aren't going to extend the game for anything near what they're hoping it will.
The only way for the game to make it is to give players the freedom to control the market, the strategies, the factions. Destiny is lifeless, nothing the player does matters and because of that nothing changes.
A trading system is a start at giving the players the chance to change the game.
-Sincerly, TechnoKat, Hater of Destiny and long time MMORPG Expert/Enthusiast.
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Your a tard bro, the only reason most players have played as much as they have in search of all the exotics and that addiction to the grind when they are rewarded every few dozen hours played. Sometimes with an exotic they need, sometimes with NLB toying with them. Add trading and most hardcore players have every exotic and max level on 3 classes 3 weeks into the game each expansion. In no way does that extend the life of the game. WoW was played by so many for so long because they perfected the grind reward system (on top of an awesome game). You add trading and this game will be as dead as Diablo 3.
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After wading through the tears of everyone else I've put to shame on this discussion I bring you the reason that you're still totally missing the mark. [i]Do doot do doooooo~[/i] It should be plenty self explanatory, if you have played WoW and Diablo as you claim to have, which judging by your lack of insight into the realms of trading you probably actually haven't, that there are always items that can't be traded. Raid gear? Make it account bound. Exotics? Require an exotic to be exchanged for an exotic. See, now I know Bungie sucks at coding, trust me. And yeah, I know that their dev team is full of morons who can't keep bugs out of a system if their paycheck depended on it, but that system right there? That's already more than enough to bring a buttload of players back. Maybe if you did some thinking beyond "MY EXOTICS AND MAX LEVEL BRAGGING RIGHTS" you'd actually get somewhere. For instance, I don't get many Exotics in-game. Instead I have a vault full of legendary guns with epic synergistic perks on them. More than I even know what to do with. Guess what trading would do for that? I could pass around these beastly guns and not only give my friends something nice, but better equip other players who aren't so RNG fortunate. Now, clearly there would be players abusing the system. There would be details to work out, kinks to smooth over. But a thought out trading system would by no mean reduce this games already non-existent longevity.
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I have several hundred days /played on WoW, I played before naxx was released in vanilla, I played through wotlk and I played some during MoP, I have also beat Diablo 3 and Diablo 2 completely and played several hundred hours on those. You are the one who I doubt has played them. Locking raid gear defeats a large point of trading as nobody really cares about regular purples. With the new loot reforging in HoW there will be no point in trading vendor purples, as anyone who has played this game enough can easily get any of those and reforge them. The only main reason people grind this game is too max out their exotic collection, forcing an exotic to be traded for an exotic wont fix anything as people will still easily be able to finish their collections in weeks using xur and their hundreds of strange coins. This game has no replayability as the majority of players do NOT enjoy crucible and the only other thing to do is grind the same 7 strikes and 2 raids. The ONLY reason some people have several hundred hours played is because of the hunt for exotics. You haven't defeated my idea with anything, YOU are the one who is wrong.