r/DeadlockTheGame • u/Axis251 • Feb 24 '26

Discussion A tweet that has me thinking.

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I don’t know if Riot can copy what valve has created with Deadlock. The atmosphere and setting so what I think makes deadlock so enjoyable. Yes the gameplay is amazing and the moba aspects are great but I just don’t think riot will even try to copy valve and make a deadlock clone. What is all y’all’s thoughts.

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u/8Lith8 Seven Feb 24 '26

You think they can‘t but they will find a way, Riot would never skip out on copying a popular Game.

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u/[deleted] Feb 24 '26

Success is important though. Since League, all of their games except Valorant have been COLOSSAL flops. And I genuinely think Valorant only got as lucky as it did because it came out during the peak of the pandemic, but that's just my personal hot take on it.

They have a whole ass MMO they're working on and yeah all those recent games are just absolutely worthless, I don't think Riot are gonna be risk-taking on any other game development any time soon.

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u/iHackPlsBan Billy Feb 24 '26

I think Valorant also works because the only competitor was CS, a game known for how incredibly unwelcoming and toxic it is, along with being hard to get into and at the time being a game that was like a decade old or something. When faced with these issues and someone else offers you a game with the same kind of mechanics, quirky characters, abilities that do most of the work for you, super flashy skins that have a round price and not a price of 300 euros just to get a good looking one. And most of all a playerbase where nobody had played it at that point. You’re bound to suck players in.

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u/Zenith_Tempest Mina Feb 24 '26

People underestimate how "bland thing given fresh art direction" pretty much slaps you at the forefront of a trend. Valorant worked off CSGO, and Fortnite pretty much became an overnight sensation because Epic just ripped PUBG off but used their own existing assets.

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u/PogChampHS Feb 24 '26

For the pubg example, its also crazy how terribly optimized that game was on launch, whereas fortnite could run perfectly well on my laptop at the time.

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u/fiasgoat Feb 24 '26

Funny cause the mobile version was amazing, and that was the one I was playing

Yes different company but still

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u/twee3 Drifter Feb 24 '26

How did Fortnite rip off PUBG? Outside of both being Battle Royales they play differently. Could I also make the claim that PUBG ripped off H1Z1?

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u/RocketHops Feb 24 '26

Valorant def popped off just based on the accessibility and ease of access improvements they made over CS. 128 tick and a working anti cheat is enough to get attention, and then added a lot of smooth systems to reduce friction (like the new buy menus, weapon requests in game, refunds during buy phase, follow recoil on scoped weapons, agents as roles etc) that CS ended up copying a lot of them.