[Mega] An Ancient Journey of Redemption

I just read on AhnaldT101's server that the release date for this event is the 18th of October. That's 7 days from now (for me at least), how was anyone ever meant to farm the characters in that time unless they were already farming them?
Did you @CG learn absolutely nothing from the community with the backlash of CLS/JTR events and the notice you had given us for them? Was there not a post from a dev to say that we would get a minimum of TWO weeks notice for events such as this in the future? (Not that an extra week would make a difference for the very large majority)
Selling the packs separately makes it extremely clear that you do not care about "the little guys" and with this event you only ever wanted to cater to the whales. I was happy to buy a faction pack like the ones with SOLO but 3 separate packs for 5 characters is a joke and so is the time we've been given to prepare for this event that you know we are very excited for.