R.I.P. HardOCP
Posted: Wed Mar 20, 2019 12:36 am
Effective April 1, 2019 Kyle Bennett, the owner of HardOCP will be taking on the position of Director of Enthusiast Engagement for Intel’s Technology Leadership Marketing group.
"So what happens to HardOCP? I have thought long and hard about this. I do not want to sell HardOCP or HardForum and see those properties turned into something that I would not be proud of. HardOCP will be "mothballed." It will no longer publish news, editorial, or hardware review content. Of course, being the "Director of Enthusiast Engagement" and closing HardForum.com, one of the largest computer enthusiast forums on the Internet, does not seem to go hand-in-hand, but there are some conflict of interest issues that need to be tackled. HardForum.com will be sold to a company that I have done business with for years, one that I can trust to run it in the way you are familiar with. HardForum will be demonitised and all advertising and commission links removed. Simply put, HardForum will not make money in any way. It will be left up to its members to fund operations through Patreon."
I'll miss their extensive hardware reviews that used actual in-game play-throughs instead of canned benchmarks.
https://www.hardocp.com/article/2019/03 ... llo_intel/
https://hardforum.com/threads/goodbye-h ... 1044131369
"So what happens to HardOCP? I have thought long and hard about this. I do not want to sell HardOCP or HardForum and see those properties turned into something that I would not be proud of. HardOCP will be "mothballed." It will no longer publish news, editorial, or hardware review content. Of course, being the "Director of Enthusiast Engagement" and closing HardForum.com, one of the largest computer enthusiast forums on the Internet, does not seem to go hand-in-hand, but there are some conflict of interest issues that need to be tackled. HardForum.com will be sold to a company that I have done business with for years, one that I can trust to run it in the way you are familiar with. HardForum will be demonitised and all advertising and commission links removed. Simply put, HardForum will not make money in any way. It will be left up to its members to fund operations through Patreon."
I'll miss their extensive hardware reviews that used actual in-game play-throughs instead of canned benchmarks.
https://www.hardocp.com/article/2019/03 ... llo_intel/
https://hardforum.com/threads/goodbye-h ... 1044131369