"Would Pokemon go become pay to win if Niantic adds trading?"

#PokemonGO: One thing that I recently thought of is that if Niantic ever adds trading there would be no good way to stop the act of selling Pokemon. Would Niantic care bout this? They could try to limit the trading so that you may only trade Pokemon if they are within a certain cp value but you could still sell lower cp unpowered versions of rare pokemon.I wonder what the price of a high cp high iv Dragonite would be?It is already proven that people are willing to spend money on the game as they were on the top grossing app for quite a while. Would the selling Pokemon impede on Niantic's own profits?Would the fact that Pokemon go could go pay to win detract from the 'casual' player's enjoyment because they know that if they had the money they could by power?I would seriously like to hear other people's opinions on the subject as I think this might be a reason besides technical reasons that we may never get trading.edit: just clarifying that the money would be given in cash as I am assuming that there will be no online trading only local trading which is my hunch based on the fact that one of the main ideals of the game so far has been moving around to progress instead of staying in one place.This would also likely limit the amount of money that would be traded because no one wants to carry around a load of cash.Yes, I get that you could argue that it is already a 'Pay to win' game with the amount of boost you get from incubators, incense, and lures. but the amount of time you would save by just being able to buy a 2000+ cp Pokemon with the right moves and ivs is ludicrous compared to the current time-saving methods.The idea of this question is to see if adding trading would do more harm from Niantic's perspective than good via /r/TheSilphRoad http://ift.tt/2gPeTmf
"Would Pokemon go become pay to win if Niantic adds trading?"
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