User blog comment:Thomas Macwrecker/Important! Trading/@comment-4510321-20120811163044/@comment-1051147-20120813135552

Preventing theft apparently is their biggest concern. When the GM who mention trading was asked he talked about them working on issues, and from what I've seen that would be the biggest one.

But, WoW handles trading just dandy.

At the very least, Trading would motivate inactives. Now, you can get that one item you've been looking for. Or go into business as a famed weapons dealer if you are able to get finding them.

As I've said before, incorporating some kind of smithing skills would jump the game light years as far as building an economy. If you could complete quests and learn skills so you could build weapons or ship objects... then trade them - players would have motivation to come back.