Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24895014-20140511184820/@comment-25186656-20140716145007

For me, there are times that I honestly would LOVE to trade cards with my partner. Especially since I have better cards than him and I often get excess archwitch cards nowadays.

However, I believe that it would cause far too many implications to be worth it.

Apart from what some have mentioned already, people could gift or trade cards to other alliance members to secure better victory within alliance duels, therefore upsetting the balance. At the moment there are two types of players who reach a high level - the ones who purely work hard and the ones who spend more money than they have patience. This is to be expected and is okay. Fair enough, it's their own money that they are spending. But everyone is aware of this balance and it is somewhat manageable.

But to me, the biggest issue would be that having a trade system would open up the threat of account hacking. I can guarantee it. At present, no one is ever hacked because there is simply no need to. You can't take their resources or trade their cards away, it's theirs to keep. The most someone could do from hacking an account right now would be to hinder the competition by burning important cards into others. But that is all.

Make a trade system and account hacking WILL start, and I for one don't want to experience that.

So in short, yes, trading would be nice, but the bad far outweighs the good.