After reading a "Mentor"'s comment in a thread asking what the community would like to see actually happen with #RemoveEververse I came up with some suggestions, to be at least constructive.
1. Loot locked behind Eververse should be available to obtain via in-game activity unlocks.
Take the new Vex themed armor which came with CoO as an example; place it behind the loot table in Heroic Adventures on mercury or have them as possible rewards from Brother Vance.
Have exotic sparrows/ships/ghosts etc in the pool of possible rewards for nightfalls and Trials matches (and raids perhaps?).
Have Exotic ornaments unlocked via "Gear Milestones"/kept in the Eververse store, similar to what happened with the Lord of Wolves in D1's Rise of Iron, if you beat the raid you got the ornament. Take an ornament like sweet business', maybe killing multiple enemies 1000 times without letting go of the trigger? Something along those lines.
Have legendary ghosts/ships/sparrows as rewards from crucible matches and strikes.
Have the next Dawning gear to be more event oriented rather than blocked by a paywall, maybe killing a certain number of enemies with snowballs during the event will unlock the helmet? Killing a number of blinded (snowballed) enemies will give another piece, something along those lines.
2. Keep Dust and Everything in the store (can't really refund buyers etc), but allow us to have alternative ways to achieve these items (examples given above). Putting everything behind a loot box that we need to grind for is tedious, if we actually earn this stuff through gameplay it'll be a lot more rewarding and enjoyable for the players.
To summarise: Events and expansion content should not revolve around micro-transactions, they should be an afterthought.
And with those points I conclude my post, thank you for taking the time out of your day to read how I would improve the Eververse system in D2.
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What about non raiders or non strike runners? Sounds alot like that elitist crap that pervaded d1. How bout everything is available thru crucible only? I like crucible.