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Soooo that other site..

An announcement was made that other site was purchased by another entity that has taken over ownership now. 
What I liked is the backing of the mods and, of course, Flux. 90% were in support of Flux and the Mods and even this site...not that they are here and still posting there : / Curious as to everyone's thoughts about that site not closing and new ownership taking the helm of the ship.

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  • An announcement was made that other site was purchased by another entity that has taken over ownership now. 
    What I liked is the backing of the mods and, of course, Flux. 90% were in support of Flux and the Mods and even this site...not that they are here and still posting there : / Curious as to everyone's thoughts about that site not closing and new ownership taking the helm of the ship.

    • Quote From Marius

      An announcement was made that other site was purchased by another entity that has taken over ownership now. 
      What I liked is the backing of the mods and, of course, Flux. 90% were in support of Flux and the Mods and even this site...not that they are here and still posting there : / Curious as to everyone's thoughts about that site not closing and new ownership taking the helm of the ship.

      Calling Hearthpwn "that other site" is highly immature im sorry. Its not about your opinion on the selling besides you cant possibly know all the conversations and procedures by listening only one side.

       

      • Quote From readjan
        Quote From Marius

        An announcement was made that other site was purchased by another entity that has taken over ownership now. 
        What I liked is the backing of the mods and, of course, Flux. 90% were in support of Flux and the Mods and even this site...not that they are here and still posting there : / Curious as to everyone's thoughts about that site not closing and new ownership taking the helm of the ship.

        Calling Hearthpwn "that other site" is highly immature im sorry. Its not about your opinion on the selling besides you cant possibly know all the conversations and procedures by listening only one side.

         

        I called it "that other site" out of respect for Flux and the mods and not being sure if they wanted that name being stated here. It isn't just about my opinion as why I asked for others to share theirs lol. I also continued to say in response to another member just that; We don't know what went down and why the decisions that were made were made. 

    • You can see straight away:

      Porn forum post on hearthpwn

      OOC picks up on new stuff interesting for community [Mike Donais re: Cards to Classic]

      Crappy 'articles' on hearthpwn [lazy Top Decks graphics]

      Kaladin is here : )

      Long live Out of Cards!

      Thanks, Flux & Co.

  • I'm kind of hold the opinion that it was a dick move by then to not allow Flux and the others to purchase the site saying they are going to shut it down. Then at the 11th hour once they had moved to here decided "hey let's just sell it anyway."

    Chances are I'll probably still stay here since I'm hoping this is where Flux and co. Will keep updating cause they've shown us over the years that they care and want to keep the community thriving. However if they stay at "the other site", I may stay there as it's where I got my start with the hearthstone community.

    All in all, I'm both happy and annoyed at this move by curse. Happy because Hearthpwn lives. Annoyed because as I said in the beginning dick move to sell to another party when Flux was showing an intrest to keep it alive.

    • Quote From DaemonusVladion

      I'm kind of hold the opinion that it was a dick move by then to not allow Flux and the others to purchase the site saying they are going to shut it down. Then at the 11th hour once they had moved to here decided "hey let's just sell it anyway."

      Chances are I'll probably still stay here since I'm hoping this is where Flux and co. Will keep updating cause they've shown us over the years that they care and want to keep the community thriving. However if they stay at "the other site", I may stay there as it's where I got my start with the hearthstone community.

      All in all, I'm both happy and annoyed at this move by curse. Happy because Hearthpwn lives. Annoyed because as I said in the beginning dick move to sell to another party when Flux was showing an intrest to keep it alive.

      A lot of variables go into why a site gets sold and to who it gets sold to. Can't really start flinging insults when you don't know the why behind the decisions they made.
      From what it seems, the new owners have experience with running gaming websites already and had the resources and revenue in place to continue forward. 

      The question that would make more sense is if the new owners are reaching out to Flux to stay on.

    • Quote From DaemonusVladion

      I'm kind of hold the opinion that it was a dick move by then to not allow Flux and the others to purchase the site saying they are going to shut it down. Then at the 11th hour once they had moved to here decided "hey let's just sell it anyway."

      Chances are I'll probably still stay here since I'm hoping this is where Flux and co. Will keep updating cause they've shown us over the years that they care and want to keep the community thriving. However if they stay at "the other site", I may stay there as it's where I got my start with the hearthstone community.

      All in all, I'm both happy and annoyed at this move by curse. Happy because Hearthpwn lives. Annoyed because as I said in the beginning dick move to sell to another party when Flux was showing an intrest to keep it alive.

      Apparently the company that bought Hearthpwn also bought some other gaming sites from Curse, so I think it's safe to assume it was a package deal, and that's the reason Curse wouldn't sell Hearthpwn to Flux.

       

      That said, it was still handled in a dickish and unprofessional manner, leaving mods and users in the dark until the last minute, telling everyone the site would close down only for it to stay up, etc. I doubt this was the new owners' doing though, seeing as this has only hurt Hearthpwn's reputation and relationship with their userbase. Had things been handled more competently they probably could have retained flux, the mod team and the users, but instead here we all are.

  • did they reach out at all to flux to buy hearthpwn or was it just wait ... we can milk more ad revenue lets push it off to the next person who gives us money forget the fact that we were willing to screw the entire community and mod team up to a few days ago 

  • Hearthpwn was great because of the people that built and ran it.

    Long live outofcards!

    • Nailed it

  • I was planning on migrating here eventually, but the shenanigans with sale just gave me an uneasy feeling about Heathpwn and its future. I think I'm here for good now.

    Hi!

    Post 1.

    • Quote From YJHS2000

      I was planning on migrating here eventually, but the shenanigans with sale just gave me an uneasy feeling about Heathpwn and its future. I think I'm here for good now.

      Hi!

      Post 1.

      Welcome :-)

    • Quote From YJHS2000

      I was planning on migrating here eventually, but the shenanigans with sale just gave me an uneasy feeling about Heathpwn and its future. I think I'm here for good now.

      Hi!

      Post 1.

      Hey and Welcome, glad you've chosen to use Out of Cards and I hope many more follow after everything that's happened with hearthpwn lately

  • If the new ownership can keep hearthpwn alive idc if it fucked over flux that site >>>> this site

    • Quote From LaSalty3500

      If the new ownership can keep hearthpwn alive idc if it fucked over flux that site >>>> this site

      then to be quite frank you're an idiot, Flux and these guys have done huge amounts for the community over the years and anyone can see they will continue to do so here, I'd much rather use Out of Cards now which is run by people who actually care for the community and have done huge amounts for us and kept us properly up to date with everything, then to carry on using hearthpwn which is now going to be run by a bunch of monkeys we've never even heard of. lol

    • Quote From LaSalty3500

      If the new ownership can keep hearthpwn alive idc if it fucked over flux that site >>>> this site

      To me it's the opposite: this site >>> that site (and I almost feel sorry for the new team there).

      Welcome to the real world, where subjective opinions and choices exist. :)

    • Quote From LaSalty3500

      If the new ownership can keep hearthpwn alive idc if it fucked over flux that site >>>> this site

      what you saying is just disrespectful without flux,chimera and the rest of the team heartpwn was not so great as it is today .
      They put there time and energy in it and did it with love.
      Have some respect ;)

      Now as respond to this topic
      my thoughts is that i am happy that they keep heartpwn alive i am there for a long time and its a amazing site for that thanks to the whole ORIGINAl team

      About the way how it is done i cant judge because i dont know all ins and outs and its also not really my bussines 
      I hope that the new team dont destroying what the original team build up 

      I dont think hate is needed or you need to choose you can be a active member on both only dont donate anythink to them thats only for here alowed 

       

       

  • I'm happy that hearthpwn is staying around, because now all the toxic people who made hearthpwn awful can stay there and wallow in their filth.

    All of us who care about having a good place to come together and have a solid community, can work together to make OutofCards everything we wished hearthpwn could be. 

    I stand by Flux and Co. 

    • Quote From Xarkkal

      I'm happy that hearthpwn is staying around, because now all the toxic people who made hearthpwn awful can stay there and wallow in their filth.

      All of us who care about having a good place to come together and have a solid community, can work together to make OutofCards everything we wished hearthpwn could be. 

      I stand by Flux and Co. 

      Well said

  • Pretty sure there's no problem mentioning Hearthpwn by name here. On the other hand, I got a warning and my post deleted for simply stating that I was moving on to Out of cards on Hearthpwn. Apparently they thought I was promoting my own website...

    • Quote From dib

      Pretty sure there's no problem mentioning Hearthpwn by name here. On the other hand, I got a warning and my post deleted for simply stating that I was moving on to Out of cards on Hearthpwn. Apparently they thought I was promoting my own website...

      Thats a ridicolous behaviour from Hearthpwn's new mods. They already started with a bad influence and this furthers it.

    • Quote From dib

      Pretty sure there's no problem mentioning Hearthpwn by name here. On the other hand, I got a warning and my post deleted for simply stating that I was moving on to Out of cards on Hearthpwn. Apparently they thought I was promoting my own website...

      This is correct. Also that's quite shitty of them but i am not at all surprised.

  • So far i’m Loving this site, and I have great hope in the community that is forming.

    Here’s to a great future. < cheers all 

  • Guys how long is people fueling this drama. It’s already old and useless. Move on

  • The long and short of it is that without Chimera, Flux, et al. Hearthpwn never would have been as amazing as it was - With them gone, I don't see that site lasting too long under new ownership.

    Even the most recent Tavern Brawl post was lackluster at best without Flux's signature flair.

  • Yesterday was the last day I visited HP. OOC is my new home

  • They don't care about the community, they just did a quick sellout because they get nice money for selling the website to the next best buyer. Not going to return to Heartpwn.

  • As soon as they link this site with deck tracker this will easily be the better site

  • It's unlikely the new owners of Hearthpwn are to blame for the poor transition. However, they have quite some challenges ahead of them, having to deal with a messy code base and a need for a constant flow of new content. Out of Cards is still a bit bare-bones, but all the essentials are here, it loads much faster and it has a steady stream of fleshed-out news articles.

  • It's a shame what's going on on Hearthpwn now, the amount of scammers on the gold quest thread is just ridiculous. Also the time for news update is not really on par with this, not to sound critical I think the new team doesn't have what it takes to keep the level when Flux and others were there. Glad to see that Flux started another project and from now on this is the one I will be using.

    Thanks for what Flux and Co. are doing for the Hearthstone community. Very much appreciated!! 

    • That's unfortunate about the scammers. We did have a script to help stop most of them from posting but as we have left Hearthpwn the script had to come with. Currently though that will help keep them away from this site for now, and hopefully soon we will have our planned system in place which will involve sign-in to battle.net to use, and scammers will be easy to shut down.