Guild Wars 2

When an account has free actual character slots and the beta slots are locked, there is really poor feedback for the user. It should give a notice if you try to create a beta character slot when its not time, not jump into a real character creation menu. Its pretty obvious if you know or when you actually start playing, but I still think its kitten poor design.

I have to agree; I spent a good deal of time creating a beta character only to find out that it had automatically switched to creating a real character because I was a few minutes early to the weekend beta event.

However, the 25th August update has supposedly fixed this issue:

Update Notes

Character Select:

• Double-clicking an empty character slot or empty beta character slot will start the associated character-creation process.

• Added and updated tooltips to reflect these changes.

Source

So the problem should now have been fixed.