I did not have to create an acct. i hit the i want to play button and it took me to the package options. i selected the option filled in the information. my email. but nothing was mentioned about creating an acct till after i purchased and received the confirmation email. but i did get a response from cs. they got me taken care of. i am now able to dl the game. i am trying to get to the alpha test day schedule and am getting an error 500 now. not sure what that means. got and error 103 or something like that when i tried to start the game i think thats the one saying the server is not up. so thats why i was looking for the schedule when i got the 500 error. so still having trouble but progress.