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.
The Curse of Curse strikes again. It was a nice journey friends. F.
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Wow, really sorry to hear this news! I know there were hints of this coming, but it still feels like we're getting Cypher'd :(
A huge thank you to all of the moderators and staff behind the scenes of HP. I skulked for over a year looking at decks and deck comments, but I've learned a lot more from the community since joining and found that user-created content like the deck building challenge really enhanced my enjoyment of/motivation to play HS. Thanks again to everyone; I hope we can keep the community strong over on OOC!
So this is how my last ever comment here looks like... Thanks for everything, I spend there a good time, having fun with card reveals. I will miss you all guys.
Ps. Fluxflashor, thanks for your hard work, I can't ever imagine how much time it took ='(
You don't have to miss everyone. Tons of people have joined us for a new beginning at Out of Cards.
I have to thank you for your work. Hearthstone was a place of refuge for some of my personal problems. I knew I could log in to the tavern, challenge a worthy opponent and unravel the beautiful puzzle that hearthstone is. To give you some context, I'm a math student that has specialized over the years in probabilities, so seeing hearthstone from both the game theory perspective and the optimality point of view was always interesting - it doesn't mean I was very good at it though.
And what better tool than hearthpwn to support each and every one of us on our journey into the depths of Hearthstone. It was always nice to come and see what people had come up with at the different tavern brawls (now I remember that you showed us some data mining from those before tavern brawl was even a thing!). Anyways, getting our news from this site felt to me like having a cool older brother that would keep you up to date about your favourite game. And you know how cool that is.
You may close, but the memories will always stay with us.
Thank you very much for everything, the new, card competitions, deck builder, forum, etc.
I’m really sad the page is closing, but I wish the best to all the staff.
Shares respect.
My first comment ever in this site.
The most important question though:
Where are we going to trade 80g quests !?!?
outof.cards new website!!
I will really miss the quest trading thread. Only got scammed once in all that time.
You created something truly amazing!
go to outof.cards, that's their new site!
You won't miss it soon enough. We have a custom interface planned to continue supporting this on Out of Cards, and it should be kickass. Way better than an obese clusterfuck of a thread. Honestly, you have no idea how many deleted posts are in that thread. I see 5293 pages in the latest one. You only see 3000 currently. That's 2293 pages of deleted posts, mostly from scammers that spam constantly. At 20 posts per page, that's ~45 860 post for a thread that is almost 15 months old. In comparison, the original salt thread created back on January 7th of 2015 amassed a measly 35 134 posts in about three years. This one has 73 816.
Even though some of the discussions in the forums could get heated sometimes this is still the best site for interaction between players with usually more constructive ideas or opinions. sad to see this site discontinuing support.
Did they ever explain why?
If you haven't seen it yet, this post was updated recently with an answer to that.