Why are old people not given access to new Valve games (Deadlock)

[Vlad Kawasaki]

I really love games from Valve and during all this time I have spent a lot of money. So why can we just wait and watch as everyone around us plays Deadlock, while people who constantly support Valve can only watch YouTube?

[Wolf Knight]

if a game is not available in your region, that is not because of you being old. going by your current profile information, your country is under SANCTIONS, making it hard for businesses to do any business there.

[Tito Shivan]

You mean getting the game for free (I bet it's going to be F2P anyway) or being chosen for pre-release closed betas?

If it's the latter I don't think the game to be even at a stage of being run as a semi-public access beta. Companies tend to be picky at who they let get a taste of their game that early.

And it usually takes more factors than just 'constantly supporting Valve'

[m662]

No playtest shown on youtube of deadlock at this moment is actual legal content this is all leaked material. Internal playtesting and regulated are not normally done with public eyes in mind as is this. Neither is every playtest actual fun.

Initial test might be a confusing buggy crashing mess with missing a lot of assets and you as the playtester are required to write in detail what worked what did not work. This is not just fun and games this is work.

Public playtest is usually in the later development stage where they ask the people with a lot less technical knowledge how the game feels.


Either this is a well executed hoax which at this point I doubt or Steam marketing decided it is better to let it run its course with the leaks. While in the mean time auditors working with legal most likely are doing investigation what happened and if it was a deliberate leak of keys take action on the matter.

The change of us hearing from Valve about this is almost 0 before they are going to release it officially which most likely will be a press only release followed by a event announcement.