The thing is most of the people here claiming to have known they would be required only really assumed it was highly likely they'd be required because it hasn't been officially announced until now. That's while people that speculated the Millennium Falcon would be required learned today they were incorrect.
Secondly, I highly doubt that the majority of the player base scours these boards day in and day out and they'll only just be finding out. So to coordinate the release of the 2nd big character in episode 8 with the release of the 8th episode of the Star Wars movies and put it behind this type of structure, yeah it's lame.
Jedi Rey and UMK should be decent characters that everyone can get easily just for the sake of what it is. Hey hey the new movie is coming and that's really what people are excited about so here's Rey and Kylo 2.0. We all love Star Wars blah blah blah. Just wait until January when the powerful new toons you didn't know about yet come out.
Instead you get this.
