Player Trading won't be back and here's why:

[Smoked Gouda]

it stops them from making money. 3rd party transactions of people trading money for rare items keeping the creators from being paid. ya know... piracy... this is why they stopped it. this is why they will not bring it back.

[SparsePrawn891]

WHAAAAAAAAAATTTTTTTTTTTTTT NO...REALLY?

how are we still having theories on this after 2 years....

[Crunchy[Daz]]

There's lots of reasons, its almost like its a complex issue that doesn't just hinge on one factor like people seem to claim.

Guess what else this frees them from? The mountains and mountains of morons submitting tickets that they were scammed out of items. I want you to imagine for a moment you are trying to run a business. Would you want to employ one person, nevermind multiple, just to have to deal with people being dumb and falling for scams? Probably not right?

[Vesperion]

Wasn´t the "official version" that the ToS of Epic somehow violates trading in games or something around that line? Another theory that is runing around is that due items and stuff can be used in the the Fortnite racing games it would have maybe been to difficult for the game to handle if items swap between players due of trading and stuff.

Tbh
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3416664819

As a reason here was mentioned that the reason is money and 3rd parties it makes you wonder however why the dev then did not take this oppertunity and offer from time to time the chance to purchase stuff from previous Seasons. Shouldn´t be hard to implement but instead we get strange collabs and the same items in store over and over again they wanna make money with instead.