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.
Why?
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So what do we do now?
www.outof.cards
Time to get another ban, this time permanently
Of all the news to get today. this has got to be the worst. In my short time being a part of this amazing, knowledgeable, ragtag, imaginative, sometimes critical, sometimes loving, (just now found out about) emotional community, I am better for being a part of it. Thanks to everyone that had good ideas to make decks better or just to make decks. To those that made cards, thank you for proving that being creative has no bounds. Thanks for those that had good ideas about how to make all aspects of the game better. Thanks to the mods for keeping the unruly mob from getting out of control. Also thanks for keeping us informed about everything hearthstone. Although you will be missed, the internet will surely be a better place because you were here. This will be a tough loss, a great void will have to be filled. I will have to get my hearthstone fix elsewhere (my condolences to the next site I go to in order to get hearthstone information, they have big shoes to fill) but I will remember this is where I cut my teeth when it came to actually learning how to play hearthstone and for that have to say thank you one more time.
We're going to keep doing what we do at www.outof.cards. Same feet, free of corporate shoes.
I am so sad
This is what happened to diablo fan site www.dfans.com just over a month ago. Are forums just dying?
For curse and fandom they are it seems.
I will really miss this site ! Thanks for all the GREAT work you guys did in this years. Hope you can come back once you settle all you things up.
Hearthpwn won't be back, but we're going to keep doing what we do at www.outof.cards
Even thanking the trolls for "adding charm to the site" lol.
You guys are surprisingly cool sports.
You told us that we will be missed, but we didn't got why you leave. What's the matter, why is this happening. Low activity or maybe something personal?
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14 hours without ligth and now this, im really sad now
I am a conservative person and once I settle on something, a page, a phone, whatever, it is very hard for me to adapt to something else. I guess I will not be seeing any other page then, because I just got used to this. BTW, why do you close this page? I genuinely dont know
No sorry you are not allowed to leave until i get a card design competition flair. That's done
OMG!!! Closing???
I will miss this... :(
Baba Ji’s black magic has finally won, his power was just too much for the hearthpwn mods to handle. RIP, I will miss this site.