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ahirun’s [End of the Journey]

I decided to conclude my activities of posting Hearthstone information that I have been doing for almost seven years now and resign from BeerBrick.

I will say this first and foremost, but it’s not that I have gotten bored of or lost hope in Hearthstone. I will keep playing Hearthstone. and 0 will take over BeerBrick for me.

The reason I am stepping down is because I wanted to spend the time I used being a content creator for myself, my partner, and people close to me.

　

Being active in content creation has made me sacrifice a lot of time.

To keep broadcasting the latest information about Hearthstone, I must adjust my daily rhythm (what times I’m active each day) mainly to the following events:

* Official information disclosed at 2am (or 3am) my time
* News and deck information, official or otherwise, that come along at irregular intervals
* Information only disclosed in English like card reveals, and translating all of them

Most of the above information comes from overseas, and to provide it to everyone as quickly as possible, it naturally forces me to be awake from 21:00~07:00, which reverses day and night for me.

It is fine if it only meant I work graveyard shifts. However, work and having to hang out with people get involved in the mix. Which means “I came back from a drinking party at 23:00 but I have to wake up by 03:00 to check for official news (which may or may not happen), and new card reveals are scheduled for 05:00 and 07:00. I then have a meeting at 11:00. I would like to sleep after that until the card reveal at 19:00, but I would like to tweet about hot decks as soon as possible so I do not think I can sleep yet” becomes a full day’s schedule during card reveal times.

Though the crunch-factor varies, I have been living this life of irregular time constraints for all this time. I am pretty sure I have less than 10 days in the past seven years where I did not search for or transmit any information about Hearthstone.

That said, I do not want to gloat about the hardships I have faced. I have had a lot of fun doing this, even including the lifestyle and sleep schedule.

The fact that I am tending towards a short sleeper helped me out as well. This irregular lifestyle never felt painful for me, and I never felt it was impacting me physically in a negative way.

However, contrary to my feelings of wanting to deliver the latest Hearthstone information to everyone, my time for myself and those really close to me was tied up. It is an undeniable fact that I have sacrificed many things for what I have been doing.

　

Several years ago, when my mother suddenly passed away, I had regrets like “I am sure there were many more things I could have done for my mother.” Since then, I have been thinking the whole time about what I can do to live a life without regrets.

And (it has been quite a long time in the making) but the conclusion I came up was that I spend as much time as possible for the sake of my loved ones close to me, and that this will lead to a life that I do not regret.

This train of thought brought me to the end of my journey here.

　　

Posting information about Hearthstone really was a good match for my personality in numerous ways.

Through what I have been doing, the community thrived. I had kept at it because I wanted to be a helping hand for many, many people by making sure that people could enjoy the game even more through the information I gave. Thus, my activities were very fulfilling for me. (It might sound like an exaggeration that merely posting information for one game would be aiding someone else live a better life, but I seriously think this to be true.)

I already mentioned this in the beginning, but I am not bored of Hearthstone. It is not that I have lost motivation to keep posting information, either.

But it is hard to live my ideal life as I draw out in my head while staying active as a content creator posting the latest information, and there came a need for me to put them on the two sides of a scale and judge which was more important for me at this point in time.

　　

Honestly, my activities have been supported by an immense number of people. I give my heartfelt thanks to every single one of you that has helped me along the way.

In the past few years, I have made many things come to reality that I would never have even dreamed of.

On X (Twitter) 50,000 people have followed me. Not just from the Japanese community, but many people from overseas including World Champions, competitive players, famous players, and even Team 5 members. I still do not fully understand why so many of you have decided to follow me.

Viewers of events and tournaments that BeerBrick organized had reached 3000~5000 people on several occasions. I really am proud of the fact that I was able to host events with numbers rivalling those of some officially sponsored events.

And I personally planned, pitched, and ran an official tournament to decide who was the best in Japan — JAPAN CUP.

If you say that all of these are my accomplishments, they probably are. But none of them would have ever happened without the players entering the tournaments, viewers tuning into the streams, casters/staff and everyone else working behind the scenes, employees of official corporations like Blizzard and Twitch (or freelance folks who are not part of any one organization), and lastly, all of the Hearthstone players (even if they did not directly work with said events).

I really feel now that if you support someone else’s life, your own life is supported as well.

Once again, I really appreciate and feel grateful to every one of you that gave me such a wonderful experience. I will see you again in Hearthstone, on Discord, in the stream chats, and offline events.

Thank you very much for everything.