I'm extremely bored so i'm just going to post this for no apparent reason to waste your time. I'll go through some recent/future updates that show this could eventually happen in an attempt by jagex to completely stop rl item traders. Lootshare With lootshare, because over time drops are evenly spread out between all players, shares of expensive monster drops wouldn't need to be given to the people who helped kill the monster, so if the trade system was removed monster hunters would be somewhat happy. Staking Update Jagex removed 2 player staking because it was an alternative way for rl item traders to trade over gold and replaced it with a method of staking where the stakable amount was firm and the winner was more random, kind of like removing the normal trade system and replacing it with a grand exchange right? Grand Exchange This is the big one, it makes trading completely anonymous so it is impossible for rl traders to trade to other players, while almost completely replacing the current trade system. Assist System Removes the need for the trading system when assisting over players. Could it be true or just one huge coincidence that all these updates are released around the same time? Discuss.