Character name/appearance changes and the Beta/Launch transition?

[Kirito]

I don't honestly see it happening till official launch since the beta is really just a test and character redesign is something they can quickly look at with their SE testers... It shouldn't be something for the players to test out on their own because if there really is an issue that is found in the test it could result in irreversible unintended character designs or character names... Even if they test this in phase 3, where no changes to our 1.0 characters will stay, it is still possible to the test to miss something...