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/Warp_spark Billy Feb 24 '26

Given that 2XKO, had its team reduced because it didnt perform well enough on releasae, i highly doubt they could support a MMO, a game genre that needs you to support it for long through different stages of success.

Riot is addicted to giga profits of Valorant and League, so if its not THAT successfull, they care much much less

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u/[deleted] Feb 24 '26

MMOs are infinitely more popular than Fighting Games though so I do think if Riot play their cards right, they’ll get decent success from it.

And by play their cards right, I mean actually focus on the entirety of Runeterra and not just only the popular regions (Ionia, Demacia, Noxus, and arguably Z+P now because of Arcane.)