Reuters/Mark Kauzlarich Pokémon Go finally started rolling out the Pokémon trading feature on Thursday. The bad news is that when the feature launched, you had to be level 40, the game's max level, to take advantage of the new features. The good news is that Niantic, the game's developer, has a history of making new features available to small groups first, so as not to overload the servers. By Friday afternoon, Niantic had opened trading Still, players were frustrated: Niantic first promised these features in 2016, and the way the rollout was handled meant that not everybody got access at first.