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.
He doesn't know why it's closing down guys. You can hear him talk about all he knows on Twitch.
This is very saddening. This site was a gold mine of great content
Is this some out of season april fools joke?
Wait.
What about the other website you opened?
Will that keep running?
How the hell am i supposed to stay up to date? :|
which other site?
Yes, we just made a glorious return with a hint of rebranding.
Thank you xD
Another victim of Fandom/Wikia, first DiabloFans, now HearthPwn, and I don't think this is the last one.
why they are doing this? closing some of their most popular website? why? for what gain?
This site is one of my fav hearthstone ones nice community you have made over the years
im going to miss chatting with people for a cool idea for deck or interesting decks or just some fun meme ones to be fair without this site i would not have known about some of my fav decks or even hit legend
Thank you very much for all your work hope u have a nice life away for any stress you got from working on this site
:~( At least angry people can stop asking me about Innkeeper on Mac now.
So it's releasing on June 27, yes?
This site is a shining example for online communities. Well done. Catch you on the flip side.
Damn. One of my main motivations to keep playing hearthstone after 5 years is trying to make new, competitive deck ideas come to life with the purpose of then sharing them with the community here. I guess I can do the same thing in Out of Cards after Hearthpwn closes, but it's definitely going to feel like a loss nonetheless.
I A M S A D
Can we get an answer to "WHY" ?
Also what sites do you recommend to follow-up on ?
Thank you for being here and for all your efforts. Many hearts your way.
Smuteczek
WHY though?! Seems unreal that the site I visited pretty much daily for years is closing soon...There was a similar deal with diablofans recently but Blizz pretty much gave up on that game so I understood ( + the admins explained that interest was fading etc... )
There are so many useful things on this site that I use regularly ( best new expansion card reveal updates and discussions , nerf / buff discussions , deck creation and filter system so I can always find an ok deck for my underused but fun legendaries , 80g quest trade thread...etc )
Oh well...all things come to an end eventually... Best wishes to the hearthpwn team and also to everyone in the community we built here. It was fun while it lasted.
pretty weird to shut down an active site... there is no way this site wasn't making money with all the ads and traffic..