Greetings,
allowing players to log onto multiple characters outside the major cities at once unlocked a specific gameplay that was to not healthy for the realm, we already witnessed this behavior on Kronos I and Kronos II, that is why we decided against it when Kronos III was released.
In retail wow, every individual can not afford paying for a subscription on multiple accounts, private servers do not have that privilege. Private servers allows every individual to create unlimited amount of accounts and there is no monthly subscription for it. If we had the same privilege as blizzard then we would not be having a multiboxing rule.
This rule will remain the same after the merger on the 24th of July. We have given players from Kronos I plenty of time to update themselves on the rules, we will not accept any excuses such as "It was allowed on K1", violating this rule will result in a punishment, there is no way around it. I can understand the frustration regarding this rule but we do not have any interest in reverting it whatsoever, sorry.