The trading post is great for selling items that I don’t have a specific buyer for, but when it comes to trading with specific individuals (and that doesn’t have to mean spamming it on map chat to sell it, that may be something as simple as selling a drop you pick up to someone you’re running a dungeon with, bartering items for items with another player, or someone commissioning you to craft them a specific item)…well, it’s a failure, and it’s forcing people that want to do these simple things to use an insecure trade method…which, when a trade goes wrong, ultimately increases the workload on the support staff, increases the wait time for people with tickets that can’t be solved by a simple in-game feature, and is a waste of money for the company in the long run. These simple types of trade happen all the time in MMOs, especially MMOs with a crafting system. In the end, the lack of a trade window of -some- sort hurts the players, hurts the support staff’s workload, and hurts the company’s bottom line.