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/_NotMitetechno_ Feb 24 '26

I don't think riot would make a deadlock clone unless they could massively simplify it and garuntee profit - even then I don't think it would happen. I think rn valve is probably the only studio on earth that could make deadlock, not in terms of actual ability but purely in the sense that deadlock is an insanely risky game and valve has humungous runaway with steam that enables it to take huge risks - not to mention having lower staff numbers than most.

Deadlock has a horrific barrier to entry in terms of onboarding new players and hero shooters are oversaturated and highly competitive - both of these kind of combine to an very risky product (add to f2p as well - you'd struggle to make money out of the gate).

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u/shierrak Feb 25 '26

people on this subreddit overrate how hard this game is.. Ive never touched a moba in my life and getting into this game wasn't that hard at all

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u/Hunkyy Feb 25 '26

But redditors also has this weird idea in their head where all new players have seemingly never even touched a computer in their lives so the game must be completely impossible to play for them.