Quote Originally Posted by MistakeNot View Post
To make the rules simple to understand for one thing. Also to prevent people from doing sneaky stuff like creating an alt on a congested server and then transferring their old character to some other world.

Or perhaps the devs were just lazy and thought it was too much work to add an exception for alts.
I would say it seems to more of the latter and less of the former, but since we aren't allowed to criticize on here I'll just leave it at that.