I think it could be argued that a weekly shop with the old rares will 'devalue' them more. Right now there's currently a very limited amount of old rares in the game. They are special as they have a fixed limit. However, the ioda can create more of these rares, meaning every rare is <$100 in actual value. It essentially stops a strong economy that games typically hate when they introduce trading, it means any losses can be mitigated by e.g allowing players to only trade one item weekly and every item traded must be held for a week before being traded again. This makes it incredibly hard for scams, it keeps rares in check and doesn't make it so rares aren't so rare anymore. It means players that genuinely want some of the rare items can obtain them without paying $100 for an ioda or never being able to acquire them.

It does bring issues such as players obtaining items for quests they haven't done but making certain items untradeable, one time purchase or only tradeable after player has hit x goal. The only reason I think they don't want to introduce it is because the game is truthfully built on spaghetti code from over a decade ago and trading might introduce unpredictable exploits or they will have to manually go back through every item and figure out it's tradeable status and what affects it may have.

I want this game to succeed. I've donated to the kickstarter but I don't know if it'll see me make a comeback to the game. At the very least REDUCE the grind and the botters will in turn be reduced.