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Comment on Deadlock (Valve's Unannounced Title) Passes 12k Peak Players in Closed Alpha

I’m with you in principle, but I think it’s unlikely that Valve are building the game themselves. I expect their first priorities were to find a development studio capable producing a good game, and helping them to do so. If that studio’s developers are most familiar with Windows tools and APIs, then the path to a successful game would be letting them use those, at least to begin with.

Let’s just hope that they’re being guided along to way toward design decisions that make a native port relatively easy if the game turns out to be good.

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themusicman@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Valve is absolutely developing this game themselves

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woelkchen@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

If that studio’s developers are most familiar with Windows tools and APIs, then the path to a successful game would be letting them use those, at least to begin with.

So you’re saying, if Sony or Nintendo made a new console and contracted an outside developer, that developer should develop for Windows instead of the new consoles because they are unfamiliar with the new tools and APIs? Why even develop using Source Engine (2)? Why not also give in to a total Unreal Engine monopoly because that’s what every game developer knows? CS2 on Steam Deck is bad right now.

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- mox@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  No, that is not what I said at all. Either you’ve misunderstood, or you’re arguing in bad faith. Given that your arguments hinge on an unrealistic all-or-nothing point of view, I suspect it’s some of both.
  
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  - 0xD@infosec.pub ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Don’t waste your time. These people are blinded by idealism and don’t care about reality, just being angry.
    
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