I know players here that are super engaged and have used all these resources are frustrated, but this is not included in the notes to “rub salt in the wound” – there is a significant number of active players on live servers that have not yet used these things, so we are serving a reminder to keep these folks from missing the deadlines.
It is a bit unclear in the article, but the last day to designate an Express Event Character is 6/30. If you have not started by then, you will not be able to. If you have, you can still complete the tasks until 7/28
Most of the folks on the forums are super engaged players, so it is absolutely likely that a larger portion of the players here have used them – just important to remember the forum population isn’t always indicative of the entire playerbase 
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