Familiar faces rejoin our hero as the journey continues…

Just based on the amount of speculation that we will need old ben id guess the devs are going to require we have old ben.. im just hoping we dont need the full iteration of him to get the full iteration of luke, but why would the devs stop being greedy now? If they would just tell us now and give everyone time w/out having to climb a massive last minute paywall that would be really appreciated..might even shell out cash to gear him quickly.