Trading Wish

Main problem with trading is that it has the potential to turn the game into an illegal-RMT fest. If trading came to PoGo? I'd get a card table and go down to the local pokemon park and start buying pokemon from the kiddies who don't appreciate their value and selling them to the 30-something hardcore players for a profit. It would be an absolute shitshow, because the moment you can trade things with other players, you can RMT. I think Niantic is keenly aware of the risk that trading would destroy the game like this, and has held off on trading for that reason.

Particularly since this game is missing a key element: A permanent sink for good pokemon. Before the gyms were sort of that - your best defenders might spend long periods of time in a gym and you'd need others. But now we don't even have that (and it's temporary anyway). So long time players end up with an excess of good pokemon - and if there was trading, they would trade that excess around, and people would get extensive collections with less gameplay, and get bored and quit.

Trading is not really needed in this game IMO since they are all generic copies of one another...

Vaporeon is like Feraligator...works the same, same moves...etc...Not needed other than dex completion and even then, 1 water event and you have Feraligator...

I've only played the card game, but unique cards are critical to build the deck you want so people go and buy cards on eBay so they can test out their strategy or use their strategy they tested out on the online game...

In the video games, I think you have to trade to get certain mons (like additional Eevolutions?) since you can only pick 1 or something...

Honestly, nothing is REALLY that rare in this game and if people were willing to drive, they have near everything (minus unown...) BUT...There'd probably be an unown event in the future with how/where this game is going...

There will be regionals at Chicago and honestly, even I could have gotten a Porygon if I was willing to "drive" to a diff place during the V-day event...

Honestly, trading is not necessary and hope it's never done...At the end of the day also though, good mons are not even needed I feel since gym defense is gone and with raids now, just go in a group and get all the critical mons you need (Machamp, Tyranitar...yes, easier said than done for rural, but go to a big city 1 weekend and go to town).

Apart from the real world trading that would inevitably spring up, I share your wish for trading :)

The counter arguments will be that spoofers will reap the benefits and people would pay real money in black markets, and unfortunately, until they find a solution to minimize the extents that potential black markets could benefit from such an update, I don't see trading coming any time soon

I agree with some of the comments here. Trading will open the door for a black market of spoofing to a meeting place and selling the good goods. I would rather see regionals unlocked then allow trading.

I too wish trading was here by now. When they first aired the PoGo commercial they showed us trading, player vs player and legendary boss fights, noone of that is in the game after 1 year is disappointing. They promoted an awesome game back then, but unfortunately it isn't the game that we're playing.. I hope that trading comes out in 1-2 months from now, as an apology for delivering a false product. Stop disappoint trainers with bs updates and give us the game that we're promised.!