Your account, and a reward package that grows with every milestone the whole community reaches. Signing up creates your account once you confirm your email and choose your login; the package arrives at launch as a personal code. The current package and the milestones are on the Pre-Register page.

Your account exists as soon as you confirm your email and choose your login, but it opens on a date: 15 October if you ticked the closed-beta box, launch day if you did not. Until then the game says you are prohibited from logging in until that date; that is the hold, not a ban.

Their names do; their progress does not. At launch every account is reset to a clean start: your username and your characters' names carry over, levels, items and Zeny do not. Top-ups only open at launch, after the reset. The Cash Points page says this before you send anything.

The closed beta ends on 31 October. After that the server is closed to players while we reset every account and prepare for launch, which is planned for 15 November. Your username and character names are kept; you do not need to sign up again.