It’s like Overwatch, Dota 2, and Team Fortress 2 all baked into a pie.
And I’m not under NDA. I have signed no contracts, made no verbal agreements; I haven’t even clicked through a EULA. This message does pop up when I launch Deadlock, but I didn’t click OK; instead, I hit the Escape key and watched it disappear.
I’m not a lawyer but I sure hope the writer of this checked with a lawyer before posting because that does not sound right.
Edit: Thank you Vodulas for pointing out this update appended to the article.
Update, August 12th: Turns out Valve was not fine with me trying Deadlock with friends; I’ve been banned from matchmaking! Oh well. Please feel free to make fun of me in the comments!
There is no NDA to sign or anything though, only this pop up warning. Valve can’t sue you for sharing details of the game but they absolutely can remove you from the play testing and/or ban you from ever playing it again for this.
Which they did. There is an update at the end of the article. Just a thoughtless move by that author
Usually the first line in these agreements is “by using this software you agree…” And not “by pressing okay you agree…”
Though I also am not sure how that itself would hold up in court.
Didn’t we reach a point where EULAs are non-enforcable? Or is that just in the EU? But regardless, Valve can just ban you and good luck doing anything about it.
Certain clauses may be unenforceable, but not the entire EULA.
Looks like anyone who has access can invite their steam friends, so I guess it’s like closed beta? Seems weird to have something soft-launch with zero announcements. The design also looks very rudimentary. Im
I’m-
RIP. Taken out by Valve legal team already, everyone bail.
Someone’s about to lose their preferential access
How not battle royal.
Valve do what they want, not what’s flavour-of-the-month
Their definition of “secret” seems very different from mine.
The gameplay is braindead just like most mobas and is not anything like TF2. Its smite with guns.
i was kind of hoping it would be less generic but im sure some people will still like it once its out :D
Anyone else feel disappointed it’s just another MOBA? Like, this is territory Smite has been treading for years.
Specially since apparently it has some of the most toxic mechanics I hate from MOBAS (last hit, creep denial) and another that I just hate (itemization ) after playing MOBAS that did away with it, and actually felt much more fun to play (Dawngate and Heroes of the Storm).
On the one hand, not a big fan of moba or purely PVP games.
On the other, I deeply dislike overwatch specifically and would like to see it dead. Maybe this would make a dent.
I never understood this attitude of wanting soooo bad a game to be dead. If you don’t like it don’t play it. Let other ppl have their fun.
Sometimes you feel like the shittier game took players from the game you’d rather be playing.
Sometimes you feel like the shittier game is kind of a knockoff, and it feels bad when that succeeds.
Sometimes a game is made by a horrible company with a history of abuse from its high ranking staff.
Maybe Overwatch beat them up and stole their lunch money.
Overwatch basically killed Battleborn when it launched, it’d be kinda ironic if Overwatch was killed by another MOBA shooter.
A new shooter from valve? Hell yeah!!
a hero shooter
Oh. Never mind then.
I absolutely get where you’re coming from, but to be fair Team Fortress is basically a hero shooter as well, except that there can be multiples of the same “hero” on the battlefield at the same time. Or - and I’m genuinely asking because I haven’t played “hero shooters” in that long - am I missing a core distinction of hero shooters?
I was thinking something more in line with a narrative story-based shooter like half life. TF2 and other competitive shooter arena games were never really my thing.
I love valve (as much as I can love any company anyway) and I’d like to try deadlock at some point if given the opportunity, but hero shooters are not for everyone, give me a single player story any day
*cries in Half Life 3
TF2 is a class based team deathmatch FPS. One class, one character.
In hero shooters you have multiple characters with different abilities that make them distinct from each other, yet all can conform to a certain class type and role.
Someone has never played a round of highlander.
It’s barely a hero shooter - it’s just a MOBA
