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.
I will never forget how much fun I had on this site! For example, when I was browsing through the card collection one day and saw a pink-purple painted dragon with a rainbow in the background instead of Deathwing's normal portrait, made my day:')
Well fuck. How do we save this site?
the staff made their own site which is currently in beta, it's basically this but better
outof.cards
Unfortunately saving it is not possible. The best option is re-incarnation, and we've taken the initiative to do so.
Thanks!
Why exactly are they closing this site?
If you haven't seen it yet, this post was updated to answer that at the bottom.
I can't believe HearthPwn is shutting down... I've had this account for 4 years and the site has helped me a lot. I'll miss it very much. But thank you for all the work you've put into making it work. We've all appreciateded it. Bye ;-;
I feel you :(
It's only a minor thing, but the achievements certainly helped to keep me invested in the site. I wonder how close I came to obtain "That's Just Crazy"
This, so damn much. I dont know how often I come here, probably every week day just to check if there's anything new. Because I know HP will definitely have it before anyone else.
RIP HP... :( :( :(
Is there any similar page like this?
I'm glad you asked! We've been working on a new site, outof.cards. Hopefully it'll cover all your Hearthstone-related needs.
Why can't you just overtake this website, with it's functionality? I mean sure, cool you're trying to provide an alternative, but hearthpwn has so many features, including the deck submission, the deck list and a function to display the required dust, needed to complete a deck, based on your owned (automatically synchronized cards with Innkeeper). Also a well structured forum and so on.
Becase we are not owners of the site and Curse/Fandom dont want to sell it. They made their decisions, nothing left to do but adapt.
Just Curse being a curse. First they forced the Twitch account login, and now they just shut the by far biggest and best hearthstone community completely.
Thumbs up to hearthpwn staff for their work, and a certain other finger to Curse.
I never like Curse anyway.
I'm not enormously active, but your expansion trackers and news sections have been very useful.
Thank you for all your work so far. See you in fatigue.
Oh, boy...
I'm playing much less Hearthstone these days, but always keep checking Hearthpwn almost daily, because there is always great content here.
Just to illustrate how much I like and am used to this site: I started playing MTGA a few months ago and I'm still looking for a great source of news and decks, because all of those that I find "are not like Hearthpwn...".
Thank you all! Best wishes to you!
Funny that you mention MTGA. Out of Cards will not be solely for Hearthstone, but all card games! This means we will be doing content for Magic as well =D