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.
Plot Twist!
Well this sucks..
only thing I used hearthpwn for was 80g exchange. can somebody suggest something with large participants for that purpose
"I have no friends"
is not anymore an illegitimate reason than net-decking
It was my go to HS site since beta...
Same.
Flux, damn dude. This really sucks for the fans.
Do you have recommendations for a site we can visit instead?
flux and the staff have a new website open now!!
www.outof.cards
But why?
When I was first playing Hearthstone (in open beta) my HS website of choice was actually the Blizzard forums. I liked their formatting back then and was used to using them for StarCraft 2. I mostly used the class forums as that was where the productive conversations happened. When Blizzard eventually closed the class forums and pushed everything into general (still have no idea why they'd do that) the good conversations got lost in the shuffle. I then moved on to using Hearthpwn exclusively and have never looked back. I've found so many cool decks, enjoyed the news coverage and always checked in on the custom card designs. I'll miss the good vibes from helping new players who then become friends, shoutout to slayerzombie240 and Haardsteen.
I'll miss you Heathpwn <3 For those of you wondering where to go now, good news. Many members of the Hearthpwn staff are already working on a new Hearthstone website! Still in beta, but I'm excited. Check them out: https://outof.cards/
My favorite memory is when I was gifted a closed beta key by a mod. I was so happy. I'd been watching streams of Hearthstone on twitch and I knew I'd enjoy it. Sure enough it was my favorite game for a long time.
Sadly the love is dead for me. I've been keeping my account alive enough to do my daily quests, but I don't even really know the cards from the latest expansion. Hearthstone is in such a bad place right now I almost wish they'd give it the WoW Classic treatment and wipe the slate clean and start over. Get back to minion combat without so many insane cheat cards. Bring the power level back down a ton and get back to actually trying to counter what your opponent is doing. Alas I think the death spiral is out of control now. It has even claimed Hearthpwn. I still visit the site every day for Hearthstone news, but I guess even that is over now.
Thank you so much for everything your staff did for this game community. This site is amazing and you deserve all the credit for a job well done.
I can't believe it...
It's sad to see such good site closing, i found hearthpwn through my friends two years ago and i was visiting it almost every day.
Thank you Flux & HearthPwn Staff for amazing two years!
you can still use their new site www.outof.cards
The end is coming
thats so sad, my number one site regarding to hearthstone, thats a piece of hearthstone history thats "dying".
Awesome time, i will miss it
I visit the site at least once every day
It's hard for me to change habits
I'm sad
They're not going to put it into the post, but all of the admin staff made a new website that's basically the same but independent of Curse, who shut down HP.
https://outof.cards/
Cool! This looks very similar to the site that FluxFlashor started and then closed.. http://hearthstation.com/
Edit: Ha, it must be! Considering my login worked... lol
Very sad to hear, going to miss visiting this site :(