In the Kickstarter campaign, there are several options to reserve your character's name and to even provide a 300 word description of your character for immortalization within the game. Awesome stuff!
I'm just a bit curious about how we will be able to dictate what our character looks like in such descriptions if we do not know how we can actually make our characters look using the game's character creator. In my personal case, I also don't know enough Pathfinder lore to develop a proper name for an elf, so without the name generator, I have no clue what name I will reserve for my character.
I think it might be beneficial to release the game's character creator at some point before early enrollment so that players can develop their charcters and also generate and reserve their name. The character's customized appearance could be saved locally for now, then loaded up to the character creator in the "full" game or it can be sent to GW to hold onto until launch, tied to your account.
This could be done by opening up PFO account registration before Kickstarter surveys are sent. When backers receive the survey, they simply supply their PFO account name, which will then be flagged with reward options, such as using the character creator and name reservation. Character descriptions (or even the character's file) for the appropriate rewards can then be submitted to GW for the respective reward levels.
A Japanese game (Phantasy Star Online 2) did something similar by releasing their character creator as a separate client that allowed players to prepare for launch. The client also determined how well your computer could run the game. It was a neat little something that was both helpful and kept players hyped for the initial launch.
