This may be a stupid question (has never stopped me before) but has the Legacy Campaign already started?

I had 2 extra inactive characters but now they appear to be active. Are we now allowed our 8 characters per server or is it a glitch?

I do not want to log in with those characters until I see an Official Response from a Dev (because I do not want to get charged, just in case).

also: If we can start our extra characters now, do we still need to go through the Square Enix Account page to activate our extra slots?