How can you separate PTW and trading? Both provide a player with an unfair advantage over the vast majority. In a purely PVE only game, it would provide a great advantage to team play. But as soon as you take away a person's enjoyment of the game because you gained better weapons and gear through a friend. You can put that franchise at risk from player's leaving due to frustration and a lack of interest.

Dude,everyone else would also have the ability to trade. Wherever you look,everybody always and always has a friend who has better gear who could give it away to their friends. Stop your complaining.

[quote]Dude,everyone else would also have the ability to trade. Wherever you look,everybody always and always has a friend who has better gear who could give it away to their friends. Stop your complaining.[/quote] Not sure if your a guy who assumes everyone plays with friends or just a guy who doesn't know better. Believe it or not there ARE people that play a game and have no friends also playing it. There are even people who don't have friends on their accounts because they don't know who the people are in real life. This is the same concept of people who don't live on Facebook/MySpace/twitter/insertsocialnetworksitehere so while some people have people to give then weapons *which isn't really trading...* there exists a definite subgroup that does NOT. Also people streaming games with their follower fan base would get a lot of gear given to them in exchange for just being "that guy who gave twitchstreamer123 his exotic weapon"

Only reason a person would not have friends,is if they just got their console or like being lone wolves. Those are the only reasons.

Again you are assuming, not everyone adds anything that moves to their friends list and would only play with real life friends, and once again not all friends play games either, as an example I was friends with the typical athletic types *jocks* but I was the only one among them who played any sort of games, it turns out they enjoyed going outside! Who knew! But seriously you can't just cut and dry say that everyone has someone to give them stuff, just because you might doesn't mean they do and the fact you do and they don't is what creates a unfair advantage, you could be like the example of the twitch streamer that gets exotics given to them by their followers. No trades *though your never really proposed trade so much as "let's have the ability to outright give items to people"* is the most fair about it. Once again because those with or without friends don't matter because its come down to the individual.

Dude,if you add only RL friends,you're wasting your FL space and not meeting anybody new. What's the point?