Fireteam Trading (Destiny)

by Korny , Dalton, Ga. US. Earth, Sol System, Friday, October 10, 2014, 15:27 (3934 days ago) @ Cody Miller

What would everybody think about this:

When you receive your loot from a strike, story mission, or raid, why not allow you to trade your reward with your fireteam? I was with someone today who got a second hawkmoon after completing the nightfall strike, while the third person in the group needed it.

Also, LordOwen got complete garbage this last raid, while others got stuff he could have used.

This would only apply to awarded rewards, not to drops, and only for a limited time after the strike / raid ends or in the lobby, and only with your fireteam for that mission. Basically, you could swap rewards.

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...

But what if you could get a multiple-reward choice, like the Vanguard Missives?

Though all eight times that I've gotten one, it's been for the same three guns...

In games like Borderlands, the fact that you could duplicate weapons rather than just losing them helped reduce the ability for people to demand MS points and such, but even that game was rated M...