So after much thinking over, I asked my brother to make a new character slot for me in Final Fantasy XI. It's only a dollar so why not?

Opened the Play Online client, got lost for a while, finally loaded the game.

He has three characters. Two are identical except in name.

Was one of those two supposed to be for me? Or should I have created a new character?

If I create a new character would he be billed for the one dollar fee again?

Jesus. I couldn't even create a character in the game. Not a good impression so far!