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.
We all expected this after the whole Hearthstation thing. Yet it still hurts...
I guess I only have 1 month left to finish my Alchemist class and overhaul my Chef class. Gotta go fast.
Is there anything the community can do to change your minds?
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What?!? NOOOOOOOO!!! RIP everyone will be missed...
I can't imagine my life w/o salty thread. Seriosly.
Fondest memories were the early days with the Fireside chats podcast. I've loved you guys ever since then. <3
very sad. I visit hearthpwn like 10 times a day.
The thing I will miss the most is the tavern brawl announcement and decks people suggests for it.
Also I used this site as tool for searching some interesting deck I could use for doing daily quests and for fun...
Such a lot good memories connected with Hearthpwn... I wish something could replace it somehow (like https://outof.cards/) :)
I will miss this site. A lot.
After lurking around on this site for a while before, I decided I would finally join it on March 20th 2016 during the reveal season for Whispers of the Old Gods. That would mark the beginning of my HearthPwn experience. I didn't do very much at first, but upon discovering the WCDC, everything all changed. I made some fan creation stuff, but I first started getting serious with the competitions around the time of the custom expansion competition. It was from there that I met all of my greatest friends that I've made on this site, and all of the wonderful people that made the fan creation community what it was. I say a big thank you to ThisOtherGuyTox, CheeseEtc, Linkblade91, Otovent, Sinit, Cogito_Ergo_Sum, Maxlot, CheeseEtc, Shatterstar1998, Livienna, RazorOfArtorias, Teknician, Phoenixfeather, and the big mac-daddy himself, ShadowsofSense, for everything in the fan community. You were part of the reason I stayed there. The entire fan creation community is easily the best part of the site. I also say a very special thank you to Fluxflashor and the rest of the community that runs this site, for making this site what it was.
But where do we worry about power creep, flaunt pointless titles, and overestimate meta-breaking on cards now?
People this site is gone but they have anothere site https://outof.cards
So sad for the news, I too visit this site every single day. It is the best source of information for Hearthstone news.
Thank you very much for all the work across all expansions. It was definitely the best memories I will hold from here.
You guys were amazing!
Thank you and good luck!!!
Preview pic should have been Doomsayer
Thank you, I joined discord so I was sure to find it eventually, put in in my favorites..will be there once HPWN shuts down...
That's really sad. I have used this site for so long! I wish you luck at whatever you guys are going to do next.
My favorite Hearthpwn moment? EVERY card reveal season. It feels to me as Hearthpwn is a part of Hearthstone thanks to those.
Damn :(
I am sad, but I can't say I am surprised.
Still, I am sad. You will be deeply missed :(
Really ??? this site seemed to be so well frequented by a lot people.... i'm Really sad about this...
i check this site almost everyday, to check some news, to just chill out on the forums, to view my collection, to see some cards and comments about them, to listen some card sounds, to see Kaladin on the salt thread (lol), I don't know, this place is just so good to see everything hearthstone related...
I wanted the owners of this site to be more honest with us, so, maybe, they would talk about why the site is being deactivated, so... we could help? there must be some way out of this... please, tell us ! :(
hearthpwn*
80g Quest Trading - Play A Friend! - I will miss you.