Zynga confirms lead game designer's turnover increases

News and technology information Beijing time January 30, according to game news website Polygon reports, Zynga Chief game designer Blaine Renoz (Brian Reynolds) has resigned. The news was subsequently confirmed by Zynga.

The departure of Reynolds is another blow to Zynga. Over the past year, the game developer has been plagued by a brain drain, with several heavyweight executives leaving. Last August, after Zynga released its weak second-quarter earnings, COO John Chabert, John Schappert, announced his resignation, triggering a wave of turnover.

Reynolds joined Zynga in 2009 and quickly received a welcome reception from colleagues. Previously, he has played in game developers Big Huge game as creative director and CEO, to create a "Alpha Centauri", "Rise of Nations" and other games. Reynolds has been open to recreational games such as Zynga's "Farmvill", and some think he joined Zynga to learn how to push the game to the mass market.

"Brian is a veteran of the gaming industry and has been a good partner for Zynga's creative department," said Steve Chiang, president of Zynga gaming business, in a statement Steve Jiang. Under his leadership, Zynga Baltimore Studios designed and developed a FrontierVille game that brought a lot of innovation to the entire social gaming industry, and I am grateful for that. We are grateful for Brian's contribution and are proud of a group of creative executives who are leading Zynga's next round of game innovation. We wish Brian every success in the future. ”

Reloz, who is in charge of Baltimore's Zynga East Studio, has developed games such as "FrontierVille" and "CityVille 2". Prior to that, the former Zynga executives included chief creative officer Mack Vaudoux (Mike Verdu), Chief Security Officer Niels Purman (Nils Puhlmann), Chief Architecture Technology Officer Allen Levande (Allan leinwand), Omgpop Chief Battalion Finale Wilson Grigger (Wilson Griegel), and CFO David Vina (David Wehner) also resigned last November 13.

Zynga will release its fourth-quarter results as of December 31, 2012 on February 6. Michael Pachter, an investment firm Wedbush Nomura analyst Michael Pachet, argues that Zynga's revenue collection will reach $275 million trillion, beyond the average forecast of 212 million US dollar analysts.

Before the news of the departure of Reno, Pachter said in a study that Zynga's promotion of existing executives would strengthen the management team. Zynga recently appointed Mark Wilanish Mark Vranesh as CFO and expanded the terms of reference for senior executives such as David Col (David Ko), Barry Kottel (Barry Cottle) and Steve Jiang. Pachter that these moves should help restore investor confidence.