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.
D:
Im going to miss this site very much, it is my one stop shop for basically everything
Thanks for everything guys, really sad news to hear....you were a great source of information and deck options, as well as a place to vent and talk about anything and everything. I'm a fairly new user, but still generated alot of great memories.
Where the hell will I go now? I see Out of Cards and an option, but working in an office, that site is blocked. Hate having to find a new home :(
NOooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
Wait, but why? It's not like the site is dead or something like that.
You will be missed. My main source of decks and HS related news.
Such an active user base, and can't make it work? Sell it to someone who will keep it running!
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Where do I now post my hs guides????
Press F for Fluxflashor!
So now we should make a new hearthpwn. Which Admin would gide us to the new web?
Having been a user and a mod here, it is sad to see Hearthpwn close its doors. Another reminder that nothing lasts forever.
Favorite memories?
1.Finishing 3rd on a class comp challenge.
2.Working together as a team to upload all cards to the site after a massive card reveal.
3. 2017 April fools. Creating and changing the card art was a lot of fun.
To everybody who made this site function - Thank you!
Wait!!! What??? Why?? T.T
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Hearthpwn is like a home to me!A way to vent off from my stressful work with trolling and memeing! Not only that, but i like so many users here. Heck i even love some of them like my bois, sherman and morkimus. This community is the best thing on the internet!
What should i do now to vent off and keep in touch with the so many users i like and respect now?Create an fb or twitter account?I am way to awesome for that!
This was a hard day, now it became worse....Anyway...i am sorry for all the work i have put you guys over these years...And..Thank you.
I luv ya *teary eyes*
Same, brother T.T
Wait, what?
Does the other site work then
I'm pretty sad to hear this. I have been more engaged to this site than to Hearthstone itself.
Rest in peace, pwn u.u
I was with the site more or less from the beginning, never ceased visiting it even though I stopped playing HS, if fact I spent more time here reading news, forum and browsing decks then playing HS - that's really sad news, thank you for all your work.
hearthstone is dying just play gwent it's releasing on mobile fall 2019
But my achievements... =(
To those upset about the site closing, shift over to Out of Cards. It's the same thing run by the same people. It just sucks that our decks can't transfer directly over to it as I've been deckbuilding on this site for years but that always gives us the option to get a fresh start.
Why not selling the site to someone else who want to continue it?