Mike Frasini, CEO of Amazon Games, is stepping down

Amazon Games studio head Mike Frasini is stepping down to focus on family, according to a report from Bloomberg. Frasini has helped lead Amazon’s gaming division since 2009 and has played a role in building the company’s game studio.

“Mike was around the beginning of Amazon Games, and his leadership and perseverance helped build the gaming business from the ground up,” Amazon spokesperson Ryan Jones said in a statement. Bloomberg. Our recent successes with new world And the missing coffin It is the result of the long-term, customer-focused vision of the games he helped found. We are very grateful for all of his contributions, and we wish Mike all the best.”

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last year, Bloomberg Report released It details a number of issues within Amazon Games, including allegations that Frazzini, who started his career at Amazon running the market’s book division, lacks gaming experience and often rejects the advice of developers he has hired. The report also claims that Frasini will not have enough projects and that developers are “chasing” the latest trends – projects that will eventually fail, such as It is an electronic game-Maybe intensity And the League of Legends-Such as Nova that did not go out of development.

These weren’t the only games Amazon had challenges with. In 2018, Amazon Games She canceled her fantasy sports break upAnd the And in 2020 pulled Grand Toura racing title based on a show of the same name, due to poor reception. cruciblefree game Note and watchstyle shooter It was one of the biggest failures of Amazon games – the studio canceled the game After being released and then Return it to a closed beta. last year, Andy Gacy, CEO of Amazon, wrote an email to employeessaying, “Although we haven’t consistently succeeded yet…I think we would if we stuck there.”

Amazon Games has had success with new world, an MMORPG that was released last fall, but even this game is not without its rough release; Its release date was Paid Back multiple times before finally being released in September 2021. It Free to play missing coffinwhich was initially only available in South Korea, has been welcomed as well. missing coffin had become The second most played game on Steam After the localization of the English language, there was a sudden rise in the number of players Causing server issues and long queues.