There are so many ways to avoid some of the pitfalls people are talking about. People fear trading for money, or noobs trading their way to the best gear. Simple ways to avoid it: Trading requires an item of equal value, exotic for exotic, raid for raid, vendor for vendor. Trading a single item can only be performed once/week. You can't start a successful business from that. Trading can only be done with people who've been in your clan or on your friends list for X amount of time. Trading requires the use of a special consumable item dropped from end game activity. That way you have to budget out your trading and can't make lots of money from it and scrubs can't just pay for better gear. Trading can only occur at the end of a raid/mission and only with items earned from that mission. That way when your fried gets their 5th Gjallarhorn/Fatebringer that they're going to dismantle, you can just trade right then and there. The options to prevent abuse are endless. Use your brains guys. Trading only benefits the player base and the lack of trading in only benefits the devs.