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.
Years of hard work frozen still soon... oh well. It was a fun ride...
its a joke right ?
Thank you for your work, this has been my go-to HS site.
wwwwhat??? what happen? I thought the site was at its peak, what reason can you have to close it? I still do not understand what is happening? Hopefully you can give us an answer
So damn sad! Damn...
but why?
is it because of money? because Im sure, we can donate (or Patreon) to keep it alive
Why?
My favorite HearthPwn memory:
Gutted honestly.
What a quality site you have delivered though Flux. You should be incredibly proud of yourself.
Good luck to you in your future endeavors!
Why is THIS happening tho💔💔 I love THIS site with all of my heart and it’s absolutely the best source of information and fandom out there... Is there nothing the community can do to help out with anything..? I login here everyday to check all the cool stuff from my favorite game and I’m just thrilled whenever I see that some new information just came out. This is 100% better then blizzards own site and I would love to see this site keep on going.. so if there is anything we can do, let us know!! I would even go as far as to say that it may be a good idea to ask Blizzard it they wanted to buy it and put there hearthstone information here. In any case I love this site and all the work all of you have put on it. Much love me❤️
OOOOoOOoooooo GOD
This site has been a huge huge pointer and help to newbies and pros alike.... The system and innkeeper software worked like a charm to keep us updated on the card database..... "thank you" is a very small word to express the gratitude..... Hats off to you n your team.... We'll miss you.....😭😭😭😭😭
Rip
It’s sad a very sad news.
Rip, it was a good run.
Thank you for your good job
Thanks a lot to you all for your passion, dedication, love and time.
I do not know why this is the end, but since you did not mention it, there might be a reason for it.
Good luck for you and the Hearthpwn Staff for the future. Still following you on Twitch and Twitter, hope to hear soon from you.
Best regards
Leolph
PepeHands
so I guess my source for all things hearthstone will just be the Angry Chicken podcast since blizzpro has also died so long ago
Check this out