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.
this is very sad, you are the best website for hearthstone that i have seen. and hello from the russian community, thank you for all :3
Best Memory? When I created the archetype for the most popular decklist for Cannon Barrage OTK Rogue when Rastakhan's Rumble released. That was my proudest moment. Thank you everyone for the support! I hope to bring more great and wonderful decklists to this game!
But what if you find someone who will follow the site? Any enthusiasts. I think there will be a lot of them. As a last resort, the creator can always click on the red rollback button...
Thanks for all the efforts put in this site, and good luck in your new projects!
https://outof.cards
So where would the Alternative version of this site gonna be or does it exist already?
https://outof.cards/ is made by hearthpwn staff, enjoy!
Will the Innkeeper continue to operate normally?
Where else is a good spot to house my collection of cards so that I can view how much a deck will cost?
Innkeeper will continue to work, but won't be updated anymore.
As for the whole how much a deck will cost, you can do the same with other deck trackers such as HSreplay, but I think you have to have premium to make it work. I don't really know what would be the best alternative for it but I hope Flux and the other people running that site add in a feature for the collection.
Been out of the loop for awhile, but I'm still truly saddened to hear this news.
Thanks for the memories.
i cant believe it...
Could you please reward those of us who are still here the last week of Hearthpwn with the title "Doomsayer"?
Thanks for everything guys! I always loved this site so much, the community, the mods, even though I almost never interacted, I was always up to date with this site. I remember many of the times, I stayed up late just to see the new card that would be revealed, and I knew that I would see that card as soon as possible, I knew I could count on you, so for all those good memories, for the posts with flavour texts, that I have spent hours reading and having some good laughs, for everything, thank you!
Love you guys, thx for all the joy you gave me all this years, wish you da best in your proyects
This is very sad to hear, even tho I've almost stopped playing Hearthstone I still visit Hearthpwn from time to time to check up on what's going on in the Hearthstone world.
This site has been just an awesome inspiration regarding Hearthstone in general and if it wasn't for this site I'm pretty sure I'd have quit playing Hearthstone way earlier and also I'd probably never gotten so involved in the game outside the game client hadn't it been for this site.
I'm truly sad about you closing down and I hope you know how much your work has been appreciated by so many people around the world!
Been checking Hearthpwn since I started with Hearthstone around Naxxramas. Very bummed to see it go after all these years. Can't imagine all the times I could spam the rageforums after bad luck, find new wacky decks, get that secret site achievement.
Very sad to see it go, best of luck to it's creators and contributors. Hope to see similar content over at outofcards.
This is shocking to me. This site is actually the second site on my favorites bar. Well good luck to everyone involved. The site will be missed.
Thank you Hearthpwn for all the knowledge i have achvieved over the last 5 years of Hearthstone.
My best memory? Creating my very first deck - Mech Mage - Goblins vs Gnomes ... what a time!
Reaching Lvl 15 for the first time, I felt like a boss! Now i'm close to hit Legend the first time - thanks to this site!
I will visit and support "Out of Cards" every case!
We will moss you guys thanks for so many memories ❤️
One door closes, Another one opens!