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There's a difference between "can't handle" and "dislike". The former implies stupidity.
Without email (and/or payment method, for pay-to-play)verification, an account system is of dubious security value. If someone's going to spam your game or otherwise be a nuisance, having to name their account won't really stop them. It might be useful as an organizational tool (being able to flip through all characters on the one account, whatever), of course.
Email verification doesn't add too much to security, but your lazier pest might not want to spend the time needed to set up a new account and handle the verification process. Some of the value of an account system comes from the inconvenience it imposes. If it takes 10 minutes to register and generate a character, and involves multiple applications (like email verification) that make scripting less convenient, even a fairly dedicated pest will probably give up after having a few characters deleted (and only wasting a small amount of admin time). If it takes 30 seconds, they may keep doing it many more times, and the admin's time wasted becomes closer to a 1:1 ratio with the pest's time.
If you implement an optional account system (something that is more a convenience for a regular player than a necessity, and probably isn't something you'd look for on your first day of play), credit card verification starts looking better. It's fairly reliable, and if you ban all credit cards with a certain name, a pest is going to have a hard time getting around it. Optional systems also retain the virtue of allowing people to play who don't have credit cards (minors, international players, etc.).
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