If Diablo 4 does not have player trading, I won't be buying it - Long time gamer and fan

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@NeoRizer-1507

go play Diablo III

You are those guys that should go play D2. Open trading is not coming to D4.

@NeoRizer-1507

let the rest of us get rich

Let the noobs progress because of scamming other noobs AHAHAHAH. Stop dreaming guys. Wake up. How many people are needed to tell you trading is not coming in D4, because it creates problems.

@MissCheetah-1661

Third party sites usually operate outside the reach of US law. They are criminal organizations, not just a few kids in a basement.

-They use phishing, malware, and virus software to compromise real player accounts. Real players who are very upset about that.
-Game company spends real money in man hours to have CS assist and at least recover access to the account, if not the lost items.
-Server resources used by bots and the impact that can have on real players - lag, etc.
-Ongoing costs for a team to deal with security issues
-Legal team costs to go after them
-Financial compromise by giving third party sites info (yes people do that). For some reason the players don’t blame themselves though. They associate it with the game.

-Game balance around trade. Gear curve is set to prevent everyone from gearing too fast. Setting in game drop rates is easy to control. Outside systems like trade muck with that. We saw how bad that was in D3 Vanilla. This makes players very angry, esp when they want to find loot.

Someone else making a few bucks off a game is not that big a deal, even if it is illegal to profit off IP you don’t own. It is all the negative impacts on real players, and the costs to the company to combat and fix that. In the end they just limit things.