They kind of did that with last years SRL with all the racing gear. Hell, the taken gear was easier to get when you spent the money on the silver.
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I had full sets of race gear. From drops & doing bounties. No pay wall.
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Then you had luck, because I played almost every day last SRL event and ended up with one set of the available gear. I know I couldn't be the only one who had that kind of luck.
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Then it wasn't locked behind a paywall then ...
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Dude, you were supposed to have the gear you already own in your inventory so the game wouldn't give you dupes. The racing set boxes had smart RNG. I ended up with all three sets by the end of the event.
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And I always did. I cleared out normal non SRL gear so I would have only the racing gear. Tried four times to get the rabbit gear, and I think I got it at the very end.