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.
What a long, strange trip it’s been. ✌️
Thank you all for your work and... this was the first site I open every morning :/ I will miss it :(
This is really very sad news.
wow, this hits me. This website has become a stable visit for me. Loved the community created cards, the fun hunting achievements and most of all the expansion guides. I saw some continuation on another site, so hope to see you in the future. Thanks for all the effort which has gone into this site.
Damn....I sort of realised this was happening when Hearthstation, now outof.cards was mentioned about a month ago.
I finally made an account about a year after I started playing HS in 2014 and have been on the site probably about every single day since...
It's been a long good run!
Thanks to all the forum moderators and Hearthpwn staff, you guys deserve a hug and a beer.
I'm sad for all the new players who will be even more lost than me.
Back in the time of Naxxramas, I had no idea of how to play, I spent a long time between ranks 20 and 18, it's thanks to hearthpwn that I learned how to build a half decent deck.
Nowadays I'm usual to ranks 10-2 (not legend yet though) but this page still helped me. In more recent memory it helped me realize how to make my boomsday mech bomb hunter better and what cards to change on on my bomb warrior (I like bomb mechanics on any game, ok?).
You'll be sorely missed, and I guess for me it's back to being just an average player stuck in rank 10 :(
omg my heart cant handle that :( ... thanks for all your hard work guys!!!
I've barely been here a couple years, and my activity is always fluctuating with my personal struggles. This site had its bugs, trolls, idiots, idiotic trolls, and a lot of mobile issues.
Yet, it's my most visited site (at least 6-10 times a day) it sparked a passion for card creation that i channeled into my own game, i made a couple friends (shockingly lol) that I still play with to this day. From daily news checks to feverishly checking every hour for previews, I just....I legitimately don't know what ill do without this site. 😭😭😭😭😭
Thank you for all your hard work. I wish there was some way to repay you guys.
:D I liked this: "This site had its bugs, trolls, idiots, idiotic trolls, and a lot of mobile issues". To be honest when I discuss hearthstone here, normally I wonder too, does people play hearthstone or not. I remember Artifact era... after that I suspected everyone to be paid artifact troll.
I will miss that site so much :( But there is still outof.cards
I wasn't a big poster here. But all I can say you will be deeply missed. I cannont believe the site is closing down. Hearthpwn was my daily ritual since 2014, especially in the months before a new expansion was coming. I am really sad that Hearthpwn will be no more, but I wish you all the best and I thank you for everything!
Greetings from Croatia.
HearthPwn team, THANK YOU for the past 6 years! It was a wild ride and I'm happy I hopped on the rollercoaster in 2013.
Eventhough you're all going to continue your work on an other website, this will be missed.. Didn't post much, but the site was a near daily check.
With love, a HearthPwn and Hearthstone enthusiast
netdecking and whining about "OP" cards/decks was very much what made this website.
All that will be missed is the top notch news posts
why?
:(
ok time to get perm banned then
my favorite hearthpwn memory??
definitely when someone opened a thread asking "how long is too long" with lead to ... let's say hilarious misinterpretations
Good luck to everyone, i'm going to miss you, you were an important part of my life for the last 4 years, farewell.
Im going to miss this, good luck to everyone.
This is really sad for me! Really really sad! I was visiting this site at least 8-10 times per day! I am with you guys since hearthstone beta! Every single day! Congratulations for you hard efforts! All of you people from hearthpwn are simply amazing!
Thank you for everything! I hope you are all doing good !! ❤️
Same like me. Really, really sad
I really enjoyed this page.. I am sad it closes, but thanks for everything you have done so far.
You are awesome!