Quote Originally Posted by MsQi View Post
Is there any doubt it is becoming a housing ward?

Well that would be a big slap in the face to have it gated; so when you finish you find there are no houses left. That is assuming it would be using the current housing system, any newcomer would be SOL.

I would be all for a gated system if at the end you were guaranteed a house, perhaps using a new fully instanced system.
It absolutely looks like a housing ward... but then again there are several quests in the Foundation where you meet the people who are actually living in these houses. So I'm going to laugh SO hard if Square is just trolling us all into making what looks like a housing ward, but then doesn't turn out to be that.