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.
thats not good :(
From my point of view this comes totally out of the blue. I don't think hearthstone has another great fan site like this one...I know only about tempostorm and they only have net decks...this one has great stuff for brawl and just many fun decks... I don't want to see hearthpwn gone. :(
I will also miss this site. Probably the one I used the most for hearthstone info
Sad news. This has been an amazing site. I hope you all the best!
Do we know the reason why they're shutting HearthPwn down?
Not enough traffic due to Hearthstone slowly dying out? Did the admins lose interest in the game and want to move on? (If so, why not simply sell the site?)
thank you guys for all the good times! it was a blast !
Shieet i will miss the salt thread and news hearthpwn had sad to see it go .
Almost managed quarter of a million views on my top deck.
F
This too shall pass :(.
I have been wondering about this for a while, but since the site is closing I guess I will ask now.
Is there actually any secret here? https://www.hearthpwn.com/news/4365-hearthstone-patch-10-2-0-patches-nerf-has-arrived#c295
Not that I recall any.
Thanks to Flux and the HearthPwn team for making this such a fun site. I'll be following you to your next project.
yeah their new website is sweet
Thanks for all !
I was right all along. But at what cost...
My best memory: the discovery of the Fan Creation section and the weekly design card contest (Hearthstone is fun, but this, even more!)
My favourite Hearthpwn memory was all the discussion around match rigging. In particular one user who claimed, seemingly straight faced, that Blizzard game designers were some kind of evil and that all us players should rise up against in them in a trading card revolution. Don't think I'll ever forget that!
Edit for a quick joke - Hearthpwn got Mecha'thuned!
Rip, at least there will be a new site to replace this one
:( I think I've visited this site on a daily basis, since I started HS in late beta. Thanks for all your work! And to the users for the help and funny trolling at the forums. Cheers! <3
Big thanks to you fluxflashor and good luck on your future endeavours!