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.
Big F ...
Cannot say goodbye... All of my decks are from Hearthpwn, we will miss you!
Stay freaking awesome y'all
Are the collection and Innkeeper still going to be avaliable? Some applications do use the collection for collecting data needed (like random deck generators for example).
Also how will Hearthstone wiki work after the shutdown? They take card art mostly from Hearthpwn.
Sad news. Has been one of my favorite websites for years. Nice community. Best of luck.
This is sad, sad news. Hearthpwn was the major reason why I started to take Hearthstone seriously because of the amount of insight and discussion in these forums. I used to just f*ck around with basic cards before, which changed when I joined this site. It'll be like losing a home.
Is there any chance to open the door in future?
I love this site, this is big lost for me
the staff created their own website, a new home for us:
https://outof.cards/
I’m late to this, but this hurts. I check only a handful of sites regularly - this being one of them. I loved the layout, the format, the articles, the insight. Really makes me sad. Makes me worry about the game overall. I’m gonna have to find another obsession. Maybe this’ll make me a more productive person. Lol. Thanks for everything!
First Diablo Fans, now this! What's next? MMO-Champ??!
My fondest memory of hearthpwn is that heated argument I had with Sherman about charity and getting people to rank 5.
Any reason why it’s closing? :o
Curse is shutting down pretty much all sites it has, excluding wikis. Other popular sites such as diablofans.com and minecraftforums.com. As to why they are doing that, who knows, probably some "oh those sites do not make a lot of money" but I find it hard to believe sites like Hearthpwn and Diablofans.com don't make their upkeep cost and then some.
The beginning of the end for Hearthstone
grr
No idea why its closing, I refuse to believe they don't generate enough revenue from this sites traffic.
This has been my go-to website for nearly all things Hearthstone for so long now. I am super sad that it is closing. I really don't regularly visit many other sites. T_T I will need to transition to Out of Cards- I read in the intro that it will be like HearthPwn+ - I hope that's true! So is it more of an update than a goodbye?
What's this "Out of Cards" thing you mentioned?
https://outof.cards/site-news/110-welcome-to-out-of-cards They posted a link above at the end of the article. Looks like many of the admins are going be working on that site and still have the same HearthPwn style content.
Thanks! Can't believe I missed that.
I had a lot of fun collecting achievements here, but I really enjoyed the mostly very appreciating tone throughout the hearthpwn community.
Many thanks to the whole team you are some great guys.
HackFin