Blizzard's survival game has already been in development for nearly five years

Games take a long time

This past week Blizzard announceda survival game set in an all-new universe.

Amai had previously been a senior game designer and lead quest designer on World Of Warcraft.

Five years isn’t an unusual or troubling amount of time.

Whether the studio is still capable of that remains to be seen.

There’s also the complicating matter ofMicrosoft’s pending purchase of Activision Blizzard for $69 billion.