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.
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Best deckbuilding site ever. Will miss the page guys, thanks a lot for the work put into this. :'(
Love you guys, the best hearthstone site there ever was is hearthpwn, best of luck in the future and thank you for all the great updates!
Thank You Guys!!! Now I'll go and cry a lot ;((((
Sad to see you go, old friend.
the first Hearthstone hub that i frequently visit even to this day and it's sad to heard that it will be closing its door, welp at least i can migrate to hsreplay
They prolly asked this hundreds of times already, but can’t really see fit going through 34 pages of comments.. does anybody know why???
This post has been updated to answer that if you haven't seen it already.
I knew it!
Not really, but it seems like the right reply. :-P
So we're down the the final month of Hearthpwn... But there's a new website being run by the same people. Bittersweet!
I'll take a moment to list features I'd like to see in Hearthstone, one more time for posterity:
-Tournament Mode - This exists in most digital card games at launch. I want to que up with 7 other players, and compete to win prizes.
-Other Constructed formats besides Standar/Wild casual and ranked. Pauper mode, No spells, No Legends, one of the Brawl formats... there are a lot of options aside from Casual and Ranked, which have the exact same card pools and rules for both. Maybe Casual could be replaced by "Mega" with 60 card decks? There are literally dozens of options they could explore without any huge changes to the game, and hundreds if they want to get creative.
-Auto-Squelch - it can be deep in the options menu, but for those who want this, it should be easy to implement and harmless. If my opponent has me auto-squelched, you don't even have to tell me.
-Option to craft card-backs - even if cost is high, like 3200 dust, I think they should open this door, at least for the monthly card backs. I'd like the Pirate back for Pirate decks, and I missed that one. If the cost is really high, you respect the people who've had them for a while.
-More deck slots, even as a purchasable option - Yes, 18 is more than the original 9, but there are 9 classes, and two formats, plus single player modes that require deck building. Shouldn't we be able to build more decks if we want? Even if only 5% of users want it, it should be so easy to do this! I vote for 9 pages of 9, so each class can have up to 9 decks... That's 81 decks, and there'd just be an arrow to scroll through, either class based deck pages or just all mixed up so users could organize them how they want.
-Multi-player content. Think 2v2, or 2vE - fighting the Lich King with a friend would be pretty sweet. Fighting two players with a friend would be even sweeter.
-The Return of Adventures, which introduce roughly 20 new cards and have a low cost, shaking up the meta a bit. With the newest single player content costing $20, it blows my mind that they didn't bring back the cards, like old Adventures. It's a fun way to introduce a few cards between sets.
-Monthly emails with stats (they sent me one of these, not sure what happened) - They've already done this, just bring it back!
-A "first win of the day" bonus, perhaps 50-100 gold. This would be separate from daily quests, and in addition to the ten gold for three wins. Personally, this sort of gimmick makes me want to log onto Eternal and MtG:A more often, and I'd love to have something similar in HS.
-Other limited modes besides Arena, like Draft or Sealed - How sweet would it be to open ten packs, and then build a 30 card deck.
-Optional Chat - Sure, chat would probably be toxic. But it'd be something you could turn on and off. I'd love to be able to talk to my opponent when I'm in single-digit ranks, because we're both putting some time into the game. At rank 20, I'd probably leave it turned off. But shouldn't we have the option? Granted, it'd only work if both players had it enabled, but some people actually like to interact.
-In Client Deck Tracker - Why should you have to download and install an add-on to see what cards are left in your deck? Couldn't they add this to the game client, as an option?
-Dual-Class Deck-building options - Okay, this isn't as much of a Hearthstone feature as it would be an idea for new content, but it'd be great to build decks with cards from more than once class. Maybe this is just the Magic player in me that loves making decks with two or more colors, but I'd love to see this in HS, maybe with the downside of having no hero power when you dual-class. This would be hard, and might screw up the balance of the game, but I can dream, right?
I had some more ideas, but those are the big ones. To the Hearthpwn team, thanks for maintaining such a great website for all this time, and I'll look forward to seeing your new site as well.
Cheers,
Chantry
2 pvp would be crazy fun!i loved the idea :) but great points indeed
So Hearthstone IS dead.
Historic site! Hope this is just a work to draw attention from the twich guys.
Really sad. Thanks for what you've done for the Hearthstone community.
I’m sad to hear that, but is there a way for me to migrate my account to Out of cards (OOC)?
Unfortunately no, it won't be possible to transfer any such data over from here.
Oh well, Thanks for answering my question.
We were not prepared.
I haven't been very active on hearthpwn lately, but I still logged in regularly and I am sad to see it go. Looks like I'm not gonna finish my long term goal on this site.
You still have almost a month to make this happen.
Here, take my +1