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.
outof.cards is the new alternative, made by the exact same guys aswell if I'm correct, check it out
A few months ago, I got the “That’s Just Crazy” site achivement… and now this.
Damn, of all the HS websites that I visit for news and upcoming content, it is this site that I go to first; for its clean design and streamlined news. You have a lively community and descent decks for us who play HS. In regards to HS websites still available; F2K is down, Toast's website has no readable content, VS is still there and a good read, HS top deck has some good content but not updated decks, Tempostorm has pay to read content, HsReplay has no readable content but the most accurate win ratio decks, IcyVeins has good decks but updated late always.
So will there be another website with the same content/forums/etc. that will be developed by the Hearthpwn staff? Or will it be a discord only?
Well, Farewall Flux and Hearthpwn, I will still visit your site until the end. Momento mori... Illuminati. :P
We will be at www.outof.cards
This is the end...
RIP Hearthpwn. You’ll be missed.
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Well, this is it. It's the end. Well, best of luck to all of you and thanks for everything. (I am aware of Out of Cards).
What music comes to your mind when you think about this site closing? This is what comes to my mind:
Exit Music by Radiohead:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkKeuATOdSE
It's The End Of the World by R.E.M.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0GFRcFm-aY&list=RDZ0GFRcFm-aY&start_radio=1&t=7
Closing Time by Semisonic:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGytDsqkQY8
my first thought was that it was an April Fools Joke
Farewell and thanks for all! :)
We want to know the reason why management has decided to close shop!?
They apparently are focusing their resources on d&d beyond and wikis now and have no desire to maintain these other sites. Multiple of their sites are shutting down.
Noo :( i also visited this webstie daily since forever QQ i learned so much about hearthstone, especially in the beginning.
will miss the UI and everthing, see you on outof.cards
To everyone who is asking why the site is closing only Curse/Fandom knows.
Here is last statement of our site manager FluxFlashor: "Unfortunately I don't have a real answer for why the site is shutting down. It wasn't dead by any means. I had no input on the shut down. I did want to purchase the site though but it was not up for sale." from an article on net
Also this isn't ther first Curse/Fandom big site that shutdown this year "To equally as much confusion and sadness DiabloFans announced its shutdown just last February " and it is not ther last either MinecraftForum (owned by Curse) is shutting down next month
Thank you FluxFlashor for all the content , and for fighting for the site
They didnt even wanna sell it to him. What d****..
feel like my wife just left me
So this site is going to close down? Wow...
Press f to pay respects to a legendary site
A major part of my enjoyment from the game were actually reading forums and news here rather than playing. I've read something about your misunderstandings with curse but was it really that bad? You are killing a very much alive site.
I really like the design and functionality on hearthpwn and I don't want to go to outof.cards but what choice do I have?