A tweet that has me thinking.

[u/Axis251]

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.

[u/Velstrom]

Extremely funny the difference between riot fans (couldn't give two shits about any "rivalry") vs valve fans (absolute seething hatred towards riot and anybody who even suggests they had fun playing a riot game)

[u/RoboBadger07 → u/Velstrom]

I mean riot basically did corporate assassinations to two competitors to secure the space they got. They shut down the old dota site and replaced it with ads, then riot's publisher got the rights for smite in asia (you have to give them asia marketing and shares to release it in china) then didnt market smite at all and shutdown the asia servers back around 2018 and the game was dead on arrival with no asian playerbase. League is only popular as it is because it copied a emerging genre, dumbed it down enough to strip its identity, and manually killed all the competitors so no one can compete with their inferior product