It almost seems like the recent string of "locking down character creation" may infact be tied to the recent burst of RMT and botters. If you think about it theres really no other reason to prevent char creation unless you simply dont have the room to save a 1-10kb file with a character name, wich i highly doubt is the issue. With that being said locking out player creation effectivly prevents more than 1 char on a server at any time on the same accounts making RMTs have to go through the entire entro over and over.. just think its a way, albiet a poor way, of SE trying to mitigate RMT atm.. Just my thoughts though