Quote Originally Posted by magitekLuna View Post
The problem is the devs wanting to have an dead system in the game. This wards just not work as SE want them. No one ever in them.
And yet the demand for plots in the ward far exceeds the supply, new wards sell out very quickly, and people are throwing fits over the possibility that housing reclamation might be turned back on.

By those objective indications, ward housing is a huge sucess, and about as far from a "dead system" as imaginable.