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.
Im getting 100% of my HS info from this site. And so are my friends that I update on WhatsApp.
And I still Didn't understand why you are closing or what should I do now.
Worst update ever.
PPPS: HearthStation will be back up soon then? Right?! Right?!?!?!?!?
My new homepage: www.outof.cards
only miss clicked this quote and cannot cancel, sorry...:)
Is this an out of season April fool's joke?
I wish
www.outof.cards
TY guys
Flux - Glad you are starting your own site without any affiliation. I will send my loyalty to OoC
GG WP guys. Love you.
My favorite and proudest moment here was winning the Custom Expansion Contest with my Servitors of the Loa (this was before Rastakhan's Rumble was a thing) and having an interview about the card design of my expansion. I'm going to miss the Weekly Card Creation Contests.
Thank you guys for everything. With the website gone, will the card tracker and ability to store deck codes here go away as well?
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Pretty strange. I though this is one of the biggest HS site.
First Ben Brode... now hearthpwn. Farewell fellas. You will be reminded. I will miss seeing your pink drake avatar, Flux.
I wish the best of luck to the HearthPwn STAFF in whatever they will be doing in the future.
Thanks to all the staff that made the site - lots of work went on behind the scenes I'm sure few will appreciate. Whether that be sysadmin, coding/development, content creation. moderation etc.
No countdown timers any more? I will toast you guys with a beer on the last day.
Take care guys and maybe see you on a different site :P (maybe just maybe :P)
This is so sad. Thanks for everything Flux.
Oh, that's a shame... All the best to you guys in the future, thanks for those years!
talk about betrayal huh? how about an explanation? so much text in this notice but no real explanation as to why?
ok you just pulled an Anakin on us. first Dany from GoT now this website. ok...
The best thing , besides watching new cards once they came out, was of course meeting people with the same mindset.
Thanks for your hard work all these years, I'll never forget the best hs website ever, good job :)
twitch : me want hearthpwn it makes allot of money me buy hearthpwn
hearthpwn : no i don't i make good content fore loyal fans
twitch : me hate hearthpwn me close it