Quote Originally Posted by Silverbane View Post
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.
I suspect the poster was referring to the amount of activity most players see going on in wards as opposed to whether players use houses at all. When I'm outside of my house, it's extremely rare that I'll see another player. In that respect the ward is "dead".

I wouldn't call ward housing a success when wards are the only way to get a house or specific features that are only available with a house. You can't tell if players are buying them because they genuinely like the wards or because that's the only way to get what they want.