from the old beta testing at PAX 201 (sep 2010), SE let PAX members to try out the game. After you tried it, they give you a USB flash drive. Inside GM will ask players which machine and what's your char name, so he can copy the file to the flash drive. (I still think "he" is camate :O but I don't remember) Inside the flash drive there are a benchmark file and a weird character file. So, at the real start, instead of select race and stuffs, there is an option "Load Character" something like that. Then, you can get the exactly the same char you tried at demo.
Same idea, your char data also saved inside document > game> somewhere. if you lost that, then just make another one. Nothing else. Also, that's why you saw the gil sellers all looks the same because every char they just load character model and use it.
Quote Originally Posted by Rukkirii View Post
The A Realm Reborn client is completely different from the current version, so it's fine to uninstall the game if you'd like!

However, please keep in mind that it will be possible to import your current character data to the ARR character creation benchmark to play around with. So if you'd like to do that, be sure to back up your FFXIV folder located in your My Games > FINAL FANTASY XIV before uninstalling.
and you can started to hmm almost break NDA XD