Trading keeps the soul of rng pure while breaching the gap between veteran grinders and noobs. This idea would stimulate the population guaranteed 5x on what we have fallen to today. If any proof is needed look at the WoW community.
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DJ
Fan of Bungie since June 2012 - old
This would not increase player population, and [i]if[/i] it did it would be marginally better, which would not be worth the negative trade-off it would also receive. A trading system would not work in D2 like it does in other games, and if one tried to overlap D2 with a trading system, it would stem far greater issues than benefits. And this is coming from someone who's thought extremely long and hard on a viable trading system for D2.