The HearthPwn Tavern Is Closing Its Doors
March 23, 2013 is a date that will be hard to forget.
Almost six years ago I was brought on by Curse as the Community Manager of HearthPwn. Part of the job entailed keeping everyone up to date with the latest news out of the community, and today I am with deep regret and sadness to give you one of the final updates HearthPwn has to offer, words that are difficult to type together - we are closing the doors to our Tavern.
HearthPwn will be closing its doors on June 28, 2019, 2257 days after our journey began. It is on this day you will no longer be able to add new content to the site.
Although our doors may be closing, we’re going to keep the windows open. The history of our site, all the posts, decks, and other content we all have created over the years will be archived and still viewable to those who want to see it. Creating new content will be disabled, our news will no longer be updated.
We’ve all been through a lot together over the years and I’m going to miss delivering content to you all as fast as possible, especially the sleep-deprived card reveal periods. Our amazing deck guide writers over the years have created some of the best content this game has ever seen and educated many new players in new archetypes. I’m quite happy all that content and history will still be accessible because there’s quite a bit of unique content.
Our Fan Creations section with the weekly card design competitions has some of Hearthstone’s most dedicated fans and gave way to some of the coolest card designs and always lead to questions of “Is Blizzard crazy enough to add something like this to the game?”. Only time will ultimately tell, though considering we did end up with Genn and Baku, anything is truly possible if you set your mind to it.
Speaking of those that really put their mind to it, our wonderful selection of forum trolls. You all made us work relentlessly, testing the limits of our moderation system, but you too brought a special charm to the site. Those midday laughs when we couldn’t believe you were at it again are uncountable
I could name so many of you who have improved my life in some way through HearthPwn but I can’t do that for I fear I’d miss out on someone. Even those people I never interacted with directly, there’s a good chance I read something you posted or created and thought highly of it or had a good laugh. Thank you so much for all the heartfelt and informative messages throughout the years, you’re the reason I go through madness to make sure card reveals every expansion were delivered as fast as possible.
I’d like to invite everyone to leave a message in the comment section below. What was your favourite HearthPwn memory? I’d also like to invite you to my Discord server where we can all still keep in touch, talk Hearthstone, and go crazy with card reveals even after HearthPwn closes its doors. I'll also be around on Twitch today talking about memories with y'all.
Stay awesome,
Robert and the HearthPwn Staff
PS. Myself and the moderation team will all still be around until the end. Expect to see continued coverage of the remaining adventure chapters and more. Thank you.
PPS. We still need to declare a winner in our last ever class creation competition.
An update I'd like to add from the MTG Salvation shut down message. Like them, we are also continuing with another project. You may find the old team on Out of Cards.
Quote from Feyd_RuinThe answer to the inevitable question of why is complex, but deserves a response. Our owners have expanded on to other projects, launching such epic endeavors as D&D Beyond. As these have taken off, the development team has shifted focus and simply does not have the time and resources for us that we require. They can simply no longer justify the development, infrastructure, and maintenance costs of the site compared to their other projects.
I think we deserve some kind of explanation... were the buffs so bad actually?
Hearthpwn, te voy a recordar como la mejor pagina de noticias de HS. Ojala sigan con el contenido desde alguna parte, Fuerza!! ORA ORA ORA
ok. bye
See you on there their new site https://outof.cards
Seriously? Hpwn, you've been with me so many years, and now it's over? Cmon :(
More than 200 comments and active members answering .... but closing.
Sounds not legit
Alright, what website is a good replacement?
nevermind, I remember a post a while ago saying they were moving to outof.cards, it's basically hearthpwn but without the crappy interface or curse involvement.
See you all at www.outof.cards!
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EVERYONE!
Join fluxflashers new card game site: outof.cards
Like this comment and tell your awesome hearthstone/cardgame friends to share news for the upcomming new and improved "hearthpwn" ;)
This is sad to hear. I've been coming to Hearthpwn since I started playing Hearthstone and I'm going to miss reading all the news and spoilers on this site, because that's mostly what I used it for.
I'm not prepared for this! Checking Hearthpwn has become a daily routine for me. Feeling sad now.
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Wow, why?
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P.S. Wonder where I'll read HS news, see different decks, trade 80g quests, etc... Don't know a place like hpwn now.
outof.cards will hopefully be the successor. It is going to have everything hearthpwn has, and more.
Some people are idiots and just don't comprehend what they read. Hearthstone is not dying, just this site. The site is not being shut down because Flux decided to leave. I don't know the real reason, but it probably has something to do with Curse. They probably don't have the funds to keep it running anymore. This site probably lost a lot of traffic in the past year or two due to the creation of the Hearthstone Deck Tracker website. That site is a lot more accurate because they use real data to track all the best decks. HearthPwn was mainly for deck creations and theorycraft's and for community interactions which was all great. I'm guessing it wasn't enough though to keep it up and running. I'll admit I didn't use the site as often as I would have liked, but when I did use it, I had some great fun. Sad to see it go. I actually used the site yesterday to help build me a Khadgar Cyclone Mage. My first instincts were to come here looking for it instead of "that other site". lol.
https://outof.cards you will find some answers there.
It's hard to pick only one great memory from Hearthpwn - this site has had so much to offer in a really brilliant way, the people, the posts, the decks - everything. I couldn't possibly imagine all of this would just stop. I'm not playing Hearthstone as often as I used to (mostly due to Ben's departure) and now every time I'll be playing I'll feel this emptiness even more, without this great community it won't be ever the same. I'm sad to see this all go shortly, but everything has its time, everything ends. The most important thing to note is that, while some things end, the others - begin, and these might be even better. Thanks for everything!