There were media reports that because of the profits decline, organizational structure adjustment, corporate relocation and other reasons, rumor was that giant network had collective resignation at its marketing department. PR department of Giant Network Communications denied this news, and emphasized that the current giant marketing staff were stable, and no employee to leave.

Giant Network on August 19 released its second-quarter earnings, and the quarterly financial report showed the net revenues of second quarter of 2009 was 364.1 million yuan (about 53.3 million U.S. dollars), the last quarter was 373.5 million yuan, same time a year ago was 504.8 million yuan; net profit was 231.9 million yuan (about 34 million U.S. dollars), that of the last quarter was 231.9 million yuan, same time a year earlier was 350.6 million yuan.