Fireteam Trading (Destiny)

by General Vagueness , The Vault of Sass, Tuesday, October 14, 2014, 16:13 (3936 days ago) @ Korny

It makes sense, since the group all earned it... Unless, you know, the person joined up right at the end, or the team did the drop-out drop-in trick (wonder how long it will take Bungie to lock joining for Weekly/Nightfall) for someone missing it...

There's a huge issue with adding trading in any capacity. If they add any form of trading, you expose people to an economy can of worms, and online trade economies are something that I doubt Bungie wants to deal with in a T-rated game with who knows how many kids playing.

If the game was rated M, Bungie could slap a disclaimer on the trade system, and the responsibility would fall on the parents. Say Matt McExploitalot joins a random Strike game, and invites the others into his fireteam. After the game, he gets an exotic, and others don't. Well, 13 year-old Timmy O'Toodle really wants that exotic. Timmy is now at the Mercy of whatever Matt demands, and gullible little Timmy can totally get his family into a bad financial situation...

...what? how? no one's talking about involving money