I completely agree... I spent a good 15 minutes not understanding why highlighting didn't enable me to select my character and eventually, had to see someone's post on another browser to finally understand what I was supposed to do. It's extremely NOT intuitive and I think I would never have found out if it wasn't for that other topic. This selection system is very poorly designed...

Why force users to pick a character anyway? Those who wish to avoid exposing their character names/server will stop posting. Is that what SE's aim?