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.
Sad news. Thanks Hearthpwn for the years! You will be missed.
Oh noes, where is kiwiinbacon supposed to spam his shitty videos now?
Where does Kaladin post his IMMA KILL MYSELF salt posts?
But most importantly: Where are ppl gonna grab their netdecks from now on?
FIND OUT ON THE NEXT EPISODE OF DRAGON BA-I mean HS REDDIT!
Fuck i'm sad to hear this...i love this site man...maybe it's due to article 13?
Hasta la vista, babies!
What... :(
Has HS lost that much interest ?
I've been using Hearthpwn for soooo long. I do not understand why the site itself can't be sold to or pass on ownership to another person. Why destroy the whole community? This is just bizarre to me.
At least outofcards just started up. Hopefully the majority of the community migrates over.
Kinda feel like people deserve to know why this site is going away. This was Hearthstone Central to a lot of us.
Dayum ... That hurts ...
Honest Question: Can the site not be transferred to new hosts since it is the main source of hearthstone content for most people?
Edit: Looks like https://outof.cards/ will the the "new" site. So hearthpwn is not really not going anywhere, just a new site
When the owners want to close it and don't want to sell it nothing can be done. outof.cards will hopefully take over what this site has been and add more in the future, as an independant flux-run site.
Thanks for posting this. Their forums need a little work but at least it's a place to go.
I gotta say, Hearthpwn was the site that I used to start / learn / keep up about hearthstone. Even the time when I gave a break from the game I still checked the site and the forums as it offered much more than HS content. While it is sad to see the site going, you mad lad mods handled the site really well. Thanks for everything guys.
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First diablofans then hearthpwn , this must be nightmare :(
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Good luck on your future projects. This was my number one hearthstone site.
Man, I'll really miss seeing my name on the blacklist.
Ohh this is truly heartbreaking.
I open Hearthpwn daily when I get to work... I'll miss this site, crazy community and everything else.
I'ts been a good journey
Im so glad Neonangel "made me" apply for the Mod position. I have met some amazing ppl among the staff and am glad we are going to go on a new adventure together :)
I am also glad to have just been chatting with everyone on a daily basis. Or reading what everyone has to say at least. See the amazing stuff ppl do in Fan Creations. Seeing them 12 wins decks from Arena and so much more! I cant tell you how much hpwn meant and still means to me. There were some bad stuff that could not be controled, but the good definitely outweighs the bad. Good thing there is more good ahead of us still! :)
Thank you to everyone who have been with us on this journey!
i am confused? so hearthpwn is closing down?
yes