Talk:Game Updates/@comment-121.221.84.157-20120511234209/@comment-60.240.68.239-20120512072314

With Pokemon, the idea of trading was to improve sales by forcing people to collaborate with others to get all the Pokemon. That made the game popular as it spread by word of mouth, so more people bought it.

DragonVale is different. The game is free but the gems cost money, so the aim is to encourage gem sales. People buy gems to speed up breeding, so give them a rare or limited dragon and there will be massive sales as everyone hurries to get it - but allow dragons to be given to other players and bang, all of a sudden there's no reason to try and breed them.

Therefore, there will never be a mechanism for getting dragons from other players in any way, shape or form. Besides, where's the fun if you don't have to breed them?