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/FewExperience3559 Sinclair Feb 24 '26

The team behind the game is then halved and updates stop within a year

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u/Pollenus Feb 24 '26

2weeko

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u/UrsaMajor920 Feb 24 '26

Lol I actually enjoy 2XKO but this is pretty funny.

It's a shame because the core game is quite solid, the handshake tag system is very freeform, allows for a lot of cool combos and nasty setups. But the monetization decisions and low morale from the devs within a month of release is foreboding.

Not sure what went wrong, 10 years of dev time and we don't have much to show for it. Seems like the execs were really expecting it to do LoL/Valorant numbers

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u/Rasui36 Feb 25 '26

"10 years of dev time"

This is the whole issue. Basically, they set out to solve a bunch of issues that fighting games were having at the time (connection, rollback, etc.), but by the time they actually hit the market those issues were already resolved by other recent fighting games. Now 2KXO doesn't have an advantage to take market share from the more established IP's so GG.