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/[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/BakerUsed5384 Feb 24 '26 edited Feb 24 '26

Valorant got as lucky as it did because it came out during the peak of the pandemic

Nah. I don’t buy this. If a game doesn’t have staying power, it doesn’t matter when it releases or how many people play it at it’s peak, they’ll leave, and that just simply hasn’t happened with Valorant.

Highguard had 100k concurrent for a few days and now can barely pull more than 1k on weekends, because it doesn’t do anything to grip people and keep them coming back.

Battlefield 6 was the highest selling game of the year last year, by far, and has since lost like 90% of it’s playerbase, in a matter of months.

Warzone peaked at the exact same time as Valorant and while it’s fall from grace has been far more gradual, it eventually fell off a cliff player base wise in a way Valorant hasn’t.

I can list plenty of other games that released during the Pandemic, experienced huge numbers, and then died soon after. You can’t just attribute Valorant’s staying power to luck and timing, even if you don’t like the game, you have to admit at a certain point that there is something there that millions of players enjoy about the game to keep them playing or coming back.

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u/Night-O-Shite Feb 25 '26

Bro valorant have nowhere near the player base it had and is only losing players so while it's not dying anytime soon it's not exactly growing 

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u/BakerUsed5384 Feb 25 '26 edited Feb 25 '26

Valorant is losing players in EMEA(which didn’t have a gigantic playerbase anyways) and MAYBE NA(not really), but growing pretty rapidly in SEA, Korea, Japan and China(ESPECIALLY with its recent Mobile release)

To argue that it’s losing players overall after releasing a mobile version in China and soon worldwide is just delusional. Not to mention Riot’s come out and straight up said recently that Valorant makes more money for them than League. It’s not more popular than league, and it’s definitely monetized more aggressively, but for it to generate more revenue than the most popular game in the world, it still requires a MASSIVE playerbase to draw from(i’d guess in the 30-50 million monthly range)