After all the time I kinda doubt that they would touch on the existing system. My hopes are still with the new ishgard housing and that maybe these are instanced houses..

In the end a choice would be nice. Have wards in each region (maybe for FC only) and instanced housing with all sizes in each region and let the people choose. I would instantly put all my houses behind instances because I dont care one bit about wards and I never see many people around it anyway. And all those that want the wards then have to just accept the timer. Win win for everyone, and more houses for each person too because you can have one instanced house per region..which would also increase the amount of sold house items and all these event house items would finally make sense..