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.
Uh...what the hell??? So where do we go now?
www.outof.cards
God dam it every good website i found it took some days and its closing or forced to get down, i feel cursed, sorry mates
I have some lots of memories with this site. But I'd like to share one or my favorite's.
Not long before the release of Un'goro. I discovered a big Shaman deck made by a legenda player with a Malygos-based win condition. While revisiting the post for past a few days, I noticed that the guy Just kept uplloading lot's of data and winrates of the deck in a pratically daily ratio, really helping people that wanted to play the deck. How to play, replacements. He even answered questions and had people making videos of his deck Idea! I was Just too blown-off at that time! After hours and hours of work I made my adaption of the deck with the legendaries a "free-to-player" could get. To this date I still play that deck, with a few adaptations here and there and the surprise effect of a turn 4 y'shaarj or something like that. Well, not quite and emotional overload but I really loved the guy's entusiasm kinda synched with mine!
(Sorry for my bad english, I'm not a native speaker)
Thank you for the good times Hearthpwn!
What is the deck? I am interested in seeing it too.
I've been coming to this site since it began, and came from mmo-champion as a WoW player. I'm so bummed this site is going away, but I'm sure some one will build a bigger brighter site for all Hearthstone news and posts.
RIP Hearthpwn!
Way ahead of you.
www.outof.cards
Well, then let's quickly decide which site will be the new hub for hearthstone. Because otherwise we are fucked, a game needs its community.
https://outof.cards/ is the new site
It’s disappointing but if you are leaving because of a personal reason I wish you the best of luck. As gamers we all give each other a great deal of grief, but we also understand each other in a way I would argue others don’t. Sure we enjoy playing these games, but for many of us the main theme is escape. To escape the health problems, lack of joy or the just plain humdrum feeling of daily life, we know that when we play we can be anything we want. Do anything we choose. And for all that grief we give each other, we’re always there for each other and actually do respect each other. I wish the site would stay the same. I wish nothing in life would ever change honestly. But I guess that’s not the way it works. No matter what I wish you the best at whatever is next for you all. Lok’tar Ogar friend!
RIP the first site I ever visited to look up a deck as well as to search for off meta options. Thank you all for the hard work and dedication to a great website and resource for every type of HS player!
Wish you luck... Thank you so much for your hard work!!!! ;)
What the FFFF you are closing ?
There is responsibility - give it to someone who are capable to manage it instead of current team, that wants to go.
There are people who need you!
Damn if you just close it - I hope you get banned in FB, YT, Twich and Google.
Ain't throwing games like this !
It's not up to us: we're not quitting, we're being fired (more-or-less). The people at the top have spoken, and decided HearthPwn was to be no more.
The message is not to the people who work with community. It is to those who "have spoken" and decided HearthPwn to be no more.
Sad day.
Wait what, this is terrible news. This is THE best Hearthstone site :(
I felt the need to make an account just to say this:
Thank y'all for all the memories. This just wasn't a website, it was an experience. An experience that I'm grateful to have been apart of.
From the bottom of my heart I want to thank all of y'all for a journey that I'll never forget... R.I.P HearthPwn
Does anybody know the official reason why it is closing down?
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