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 hope there will have this thread on the new "hearthpwn" website: https://outof.cards/
they are replacing hearthpwn.. ^^ 80g quest should continue there..
*pats head* so true
THANKS FOR THE EXPLANASTION WHY YOU CLOSE OH WAIT THERE IS NOT HMM OKAY
See you at outofCards. Love you and the staff, Flux and F Curse.
Rip in peps, I guess. At least we have www.outof.cards
I HOPE YOU 2
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This is so sad to read, thank you all for your hard work.
Visiting this site 1000 times a day for a loooong time. Thanks to the mods and community. I am going to miss all the „nerf“ threads.
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This is sad news, this has been my go to site since I started playing HS some 3 years ago, just want to say thanks to the staff for doing such a fine job and keeping us updated on everything Hearthstone, I will miss my daily reads and rants, best wishes to all...
good, curse is to blame I’m assuming so it’s good to be splitting ways
Hope this shitty game just dies one day too, sooner is better
Sad to read. I love this site, that brings us that love Hearthstone together. RIP
And I wonder why you made this decision?
He didn't. Check out the discord channel for some more info.
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ty all for all your dedication, i have been playing since beta and your site is always my go to when i want to see news, decks, even help on some heroic bosses!
i wish you well
Echoing everyone's statements but https://outof.cards/ is your new go to (beta) website so go there and subscribe you degenerates.
Why are the doors being closed? Is it due to low traffic levels? The website ain't profitable enough to get a new team? Maybe this game is dieing. This is super shitty news.
Hang in there!!! The new site will be amazing! http://outof.cards
I'm already there. But they need to get to work on their forums ASAP. Forums are what keep communities together and coming back.