Thanks for slapping every Seeker Droid digger in the face BW

No reason other than "Just because BWEA wants to do it." You can't fight City Hall.

You can't fight City Hall? Really?

Anyway, let me rephrase. In my opinion, I can't currently think of a good reason why a questline like this should not be in the game.

That was a bit of a joke. Obviously in some cases you can successfully fight City Hall.
I can't, either. I also can't think of a good reason not to put the entire outfit in the CM, should they ever decide to do that.

You need to take a chill pill dude.

I'm going to go out and a limb here and bet that you raged madly when DVDs killed the VCR market. All those Videotapes you had collected.... /slap_to_the_face as the younglings snapped up DVDs.. while you stood by with face in hands weeping and gnashing at that ****** called progress.

I believe I explained before that having this set be accessible only through a questline and search grind provides it with a level of rarity that makes it a fun item for players who enjoy that type of gameplay. That, to me, is a good reason for it not to be a CM item. You may disagree, of course, but that's my view on it.

Because (and I'm going into a more general example because this evidently isn't the case for the seeker armour) the time spent obtaining the item is cheapened.

Say a kid picks up rubbish at lunch time because he'll be rewarded with ice-cream. It's not the funnest task, but he has the reward in mind so the time spent picking up rubbish isn't necessarily boring. However, when he goes to collect his reward, he finds that all of the kids are getting ice-cream, even if they didn't collect rubbish. He now realises that he could have been doing something more fun and received the reward anyway, thus the time he did spend collecting rubbish is made worthless. His enjoyment is retroactively taken away, going from 'picking up this rubbish is so going to be worth the ice-cream!' to 'picking up all that rubbish was an utter waste of time, I shouldn't have bothered'.

When we're doing a chore with a reward in mind, that chore can become fun. When that reward is given to those who did not do the chore, we feel as if we have been robbed of the time that we spent doing the chore; we retroactively associate doing said chore with negative emotions, whereas before we may have retroactively associated doing the chore with positive emotions.

Off topic here, but who actually uses the word rubbish anymore?

British people