Guild Wars 2

We need a method to trade player to player which is secure.
We need this as an alternative to using the Trading Post in order have a way to avoid paying all the transaction taxes.
Releasing an MMOG without such a feature is pretty ridiculous.
The mail system, while it may be more easily monitored for large exchanges of game currency from real-world powerleveling operations, is not a good substitute for direct and secure trading.

Someone will no doubt respond to this and say that we need to learn to ‘trust’ other players; but that is nonsense. There should be a method that’s verifiable and both parties can see exactly what they are getting in the exchange.

Token.6501:

We need this as an alternative to using the Trading Post in order have a way to avoid paying all the transaction taxes.

And this is why ANet will never add this feature. They are serious about their gold sinks, and rightly so.

Could they stand to ease up a bit on them? I think so, but that’s a topic for another thread.

leveling tradeskills is a gold sink in itself, there’s no profit in it.

I believe the reasoning has more to do with monitoring the real-world trading issue.

I’m sure they have enough gold-sinks; just wait until player-housing and guild-halls come along.

heh you think people wouldn’t get scammed left and right with player to player trading?
Heres the wiki page for GW1 on it http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Scam

I’ll stick to the Trading Post thank you very much. Listing fee or not at least its safe