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.
They apparently are focusing their resources on d&d beyond and wikis now and have no desire to maintain these other sites. Multiple of their sites are shutting down.
Long time lurker, first post here.
just want to say thanks to everyone who made the great content and help on this page.
cherez
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I loved the interface, the community, the decks with their guides, the forum posts... EVERYTHING!
First Diablofans, now this..."Bad news, everyone..."
Thank you all!
My favorite memory was my deck reaching almost 1 million views and getting featured by Hearthpwn!
It's been a good 6 years. I'm going to miss net-decking :(
wait, what!? I check this site everyday. It's like my morning news paper. This is really sad news :(
Anyway, thanks for keeping us updated, and for the great work!
Best Memory of HearthPwn was creating my account at outof.cards
Looking forward to seeing you all there!!
Thanks to @Fluxflashor and all the team! I felt somehow like a part of the team a few years ago, when I was reporting 20 spam threads a day xD The thing I enjoyed from Hearthpwn the most was discovering new, out-of-meta decks, and discussing how to make my favourite classes or archetypes work when they were not strong in the meta.
I know it has to be really frustrating to not be informed about what's going on. I hope you get more information about the reasons of Hearthpwn closing!
Last but not least: WE NEED A NEW HOME. Talk to Blizzard: their official forums are dead compared to the amount of activity in Hearthpwn; talk to other quality Hearthstone-devoted sites. I'm sure many of us would happily move to whatever site you would join in the near future. And that's a lot of audience that could be valuable to any hearthstone-related site.
Again, thanks to all the team, and good luck in any projects you decide to join or create! All the best,
Felip
New home is https://outof.cards
Everyone pile it on!!!!
Saw it only a few minutes after my post xD See you there!
Hmmm.. such a pity... hm...I got used to visit this site instead of official forum or any other site.. the newest and the best information so far about the Hearthstone.. but what happenned ? Why do you close this ?
Anyway thank you very much for making such a good content. I ll miss you.
farewell
This is one of the saddest things that could have happened on my 21st birthday lol.
Happy Birthday, no need to be sad. It's not the end, just migration.
so any other website then hearthpwn provide trading gold quest ?
Hopefully, by the time this closes down, outof.cards will
Certainly will. Plan to have a custom interface for this as well.
niceee dont forget to share with us :)
Hope https://outof.cards will wear soon a new graphic chart
Very sad, F
This site is so heavy on ads that it's the slowest site I've ever seen. But it's still very popular among Hearthstone community. Yet it is not enough to be profitable. Seems like a very bad management.
Anyway, any alternative except reddit?