I have never played an MMO that had a hard cap on housing availability like this.

The entire POINT of instanced wards as we have now is that the server just creates more of them as the others fill up. I've played several MMOs that use the same housing system as we have here and new wards were created automatically as older wards filled up. There was never a limit on capacity.

It's deeply troubling that this game has such severe server capacity limitations when every other MMO on the market has no such problems.