Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-23575531-20130925201109/@comment-11490363-20130927142644

KUB4$K!E wrote: What is wrong with trading? Someone has paid enough money to receive multiples of a particular card. In my case 2 bot Trypticons. I'm sure someone out there has paid enough to get 2 alts. Don't know who, but I'm sure someone has. We both want a MTM card, whether for the deck or the Cyberdex. It's been paid for. There are going to be stronger cards in the future. It will be obsolete eventually. I agree that trading cards that are no longer 'relevant' is doable, but what is relevant to a T4 deck might not be relevant to a T1 deck, so how do we decide what is relevant? When no decks above T4 contain said card? Obsolete is a subjective term.

Also, you did pay for a half a card, but with the caveat that only YOU can own that half, allowing them to calculate rarity. The rarity of MTMs is SIGNIFICANTLY less than the sum total of all alts and bots out there. Allowing trading would at least double the number of MTMs, probably much more. It would also allow people that did not really pay much to get cards that others paid a lot for. To say that they should just 'add trading' ignores the fact that the LACK of trading is a key feature of the current system.

Maybe some collecter HAS to get that elite you have to complete his cyberdex and doesnt need his R5 from 2 eps ago that no longer makes his deck, or even a half card of a current good card that he can't use and doesnt need to MTM by trading for the other half himself. Now some T4 player cen the best card potentially with no money. The same card that others paid for.

Sure the cards become obsolete within the T1 sphere, but till then, it is still a paid advantage that should be protected for a few events.