The best way to leave your job is to write I quit on a laptop and then throw that laptop into the garbage. That shows them it's not about the money.
If the excitement about Diablo 3 is any indication, games in China aren’t any less popular than they were a year ago, but something does seem to be afoot in the online gaming industry, which has seen a number of high-level execs leave their positions in the past quarter.
The list of the departed includes Changyou 17173′s General Manager, Ganglan Online’s COO, Jinshan Games’s Director, Changyou’s Deputy Director, Shanda’s (NASDAQ:SNDA) Deputy Director, Fancheng’s Deputy Director, Zhongqingbao’s Deputy Director, Target Software’s Deputy Director, etc. A high-level government official responsible for regulating online gaming also left his post in late 2011.
Actually, although interest in games certainly hasn’t decreased, the market has become a bit over-saturated with online gaming companies, many of which have very similar offerings. As a result, it’s been tough going for some online game operators in recent months.
According to Sina Tech, many of these folks left their jobs to take positions at or found their own startups, which could mean a change in the winds is coming for China’s online gaming industry. Frankly, that wouldn’t be a bad thing; a little innovation might shake up the industry a bit and stop people from churning out derivative crap like this.
[via Sina Tech, Image source here]