Quote Originally Posted by Almagnus1 View Post
I'd bet money that if even you doubled the wards, you wouldn't put a dent in the housing problem because I suspect that a lot of the NA servers growth is from FFXIV absorbing WoW's population since Blizzard keeps doing dumb stuff, which is only going to make this problem worse in the short term. I'd like to think we're not going to have the long term retention issues because WoW:Retail is such an inferior game to both FFXIV and WoW:Classic.
It's honestly hard to say what the effect would be. Some worlds it could solve the problem but I doubt it would solve it on all worlds.

But it would only be a temporary solution unless the player base stopped growing. The 4.2 wards seemed to be a solution at first. There were multiple NA worlds with hundreds of houses available for most of 2018. Then the player base started rapidly growing in 2019 and all those houses disappeared even before the data center reorganization could happen.