Grand Game CEO Zhang dismissed

October 28 afternoon, the Grand game CEO Zhang was dismissed news received a grand official confirmation. But many players in the gaming industry are not surprised. "The game was being preached a year ago, and its dismissal belonged to ' fruition '." "said one of the game industry people interviewed by the first financial daily.

Grand Game in the announcement of the statement is, Zhang "in the business and development philosophy and the Board of Directors there is a big difference, management and implementation strategy can not be recognized by the Board of Directors, performance can not achieve the expected", so the board resolution to remove the CEO of its Grand game, lifting its work with the grand And to dismiss its grand game director.

Zhang belong to the grand game "veteran", is the Grand Game "Gold" "Blood Legend" and "legendary World" one of the core managers.

Donews chairman Wang to reporters that Zhang low-key, is a "product people", Shanda has established a set of Non-human operating system, Zhang's dismissal of the grand game will not cause too much impact, this may be the overall strategic adjustment of the Grand game signal.

Reporter 28th night to call Zhang himself, he was not convenient to answer the phone for the refusal of the interview.

Zhang 2001 joined the Grand Group, former group director, senior vice president and other positions, since April 2008 as the chief producer of Grand games, August 2012 as CEO of Shanda Games, has a wealth of large-scale network game production and operation experience.

With the rapid rise of the hand tour, the end of the market shows a downward trend, and the core players have been from "from" to "the" transition.

Yunting, an IT lawyer who worked in Shanda, told reporters that the company's board of directors might want to use fresh blood to exploit the pressure of the transition. At present, like swimming, the perfect world, Shanda games and other traditional companies to do, in the transformation of the difficulties are very large, "these several in Tencent and mobile internet oppression under the days are not good."

Zhang in the recent interview with the reporter has revealed that the current end of the game is still the main business, accounting for more than 90%, hand travel accounted for only about 10%.

But Shanda Game 2014 two quarterly results show that the net operating income of 964 million yuan, of which hand travel income of 85.8 million yuan, the chain growth of 30.79%, showing an upward trend.

Shanda Games in the announcement, replaced Zhang is Shanda Group vice President Zhang Yi.

Shanda Games officials also said the changes would not affect the process of privatisation of the grand games that had already been established.

In early 2010, Grand Game original CEO Yu announced his resignation, August 2012, Grand Game original CEO Tan announced his resignation. One insider in the game said the Zhang's dismissal could be more than the first two.

At present, Chen to the Grand group positioning is the investment holding platform. Shanda started the privatisation process earlier this year, and in September this year the privatisation consortium members of the big Exchange, Shanda Network became the third largest shareholder of the game. Insiders speculate that this change in personnel may be the new board of directors of the company's strategic transformation released a signal, it can be said that the company's future is a hope.

A game industry person told reporters that the grand game is characterized by more operations than research and development, in the future how to make more breakthroughs in research and development, in the field of hand-travel to build awareness, perhaps management focus on the issue. However, as a listed company, the performance pressure to a certain extent hindered the pace of transformation.

Wang said, compared with 10 years ago, now the game industry turnover is very large, like the first generation of game company Nine City, NetEase (also including Shanda), the second generation of giants, the perfect world, basically have experienced succession, a new generation of old people.

As for the possible whereabouts of Zhang, Wang analysis that entrepreneurship is his most likely choice of a direction. "But it does not rule out the possibility of finding another club. "Wang said, not long ago, the original vice president of the Grand game Chen resigned, as the CEO of the Kunlun game, the current listed companies to buy game assets of many examples, for these" laymen ", such as Zhang has rich experience in the game operation is a scarce resource.