Quote Originally Posted by InkstainedGwyn View Post
He said "making sure everyone gets a fair chance at a house", which likely means removing timing/connection benefits. The exact wording, if followed, would mean that anyone with the gil for the house would have the same chance at getting the house. Unfortunately, this probably means either a lottery, or opening the ward at random with no prior notice or even no notice when it's open.
The latter would encourage camping, which would result in server instability and a lack of fairness to all, as promised.

If Yoshi P is to be taken at his word here, it's almost certainly a lottery system which is being envisaged, which is unfortunate. Housing has always been a problem primarily because of player greed and at least auto-demolish went a way to counter this.