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.
This makes me sad af :(
Why?
this website is still here!
I just realised we passed the closing date already and it's still on. Wow, I stopped using this page because of it.
Well then, pretty cool!
Any details?
Go back and read some of the past Artical's from a few weeks ago.
so why is the site still up on july 7th then ?
It was a prank apparently :/
Cause the site was sold and has new owners who kept it open.
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The kings is dead (Hearthpwn).! Long live the king (Outof.Cards)
thank you #hearthpwn
Lol, this article couldn't even reach one thousand comments.
Good Riddance old hearthpwn team.
I honestly can't imagine Hearthstone without Hearthpwn. Normally I never write these kind of posts, but after years of using this site multiple times per week it will be hard to see it go. I at least hope you guys will try and find someone to buy the domain from you and take over. Hearthstone is still massive and there is plenty of money to made from advertising on this site.
This website is integral to the hearthstone community and I suspect that losing this website will be a big blow to the game, and by extension, the community itself.
How will I learn about new cards? Get new deck ideas? Read what people have to say on the forums?
PS-- Maybe Blizzard can try and help if you ask?
Hearthpwn is gonna be run by Magic Find now. Hopefully it'll continue to be the same Hearthpwn we all know and love.
This was sad news indeed, Hearthpwn has been an integral part of my daily HS routine for almost 4 years now, it has been my go to site for all the latest Hearthstone news on Tournaments, decks, etc. I have become so accustomed to this layout and how it all works I think it will be hard replacing it, many thanks to the site staff for all the effort it has been a great experience, I wish the new venture outofcards all the best. cheers one and all...
Thank you for best site for Hearthstone, Since I start to play Hearthstone this site is so fantastic for me, I learn everything about hearthstone I'm so sad this legendary site will be shutting down.
Thank you for everything and your passions.
Hearthstone player from Thailand
so sad to see you go :(
Seems hard to find words... Hearthpwn, thank you from our entire team!
#HearthpwnThankYou
I am dumbfounded... how can curse let this slide!!!! Unbelievable... thanks for everything guys... hope you find a good place in your new project.
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"The end is coming!" :( Thanks for all the great content. I've spent countless hours browsing the site and hope you all the best of luck in your next adventures! See you there!