Quote Originally Posted by Slatervonjager View Post
Read it.

"In the event". meaning "If it happens". Legacy accounts may not apply, so they may have similar names to those on other servers(of course, they can't leave their server)

Also, read the last line "the same name but is associated with an inactive service account". They don't delete inactive accounts right away, but inactive accounts have to be recovered before they can be active again.

Again, I tried to use the same name on multiple servers before, doesn't work, and I highly doubt, anyone would use the same name i have, let alone have all of the same character names i have.

EDIT: forgot to add, there's also the JP severs, which have different data centers, and different name servers.
Because someone on the second server already had your name, duh.