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

Submitted ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨simple@lemm.ee⁩ to ⁨games@lemmy.world⁩

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Valve keeping up with the trend of “worst kept secrets”. You need an invite to join the alpha but since everyone who owns it can refer their friends, it spread very quickly.

I’ve been playing it the past few days and it’s honestly very fun. Still a bit rough around the edges (especially in terms of balance) since it’s in early access, but it has serious potential to be dota 2 levels of popular.

For the unaware, Deadlock is a 3rd person shooter MOBA. It feels like a mix of Dota and Overwatch/Team Fortress. Nobody is allowed to share footage or screenshots, but obviously with so many playing there’s a ton of leaks out there.

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BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Heyyyyyyy buddyyy !

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- Dequei@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Heyyyy buddyyys!
  
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  - Luci@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Friends! Pals! Fellow lemmy users!
    
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- EarMaster@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  As you got invited by OP would you mind sharing your invites too? Asking for ~~a friend~~ me.
  
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  - BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I don’t have the game yet. It used to be instantaneous but now it may take several days according to some people on the internet
    
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  - padge@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I can invite too if people need it, shoot me a DM
    
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- simple@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Shot you a message.
  
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  - Zoidsberg@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I love your personality and think we could be great friends, too.
    
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  - LolcatXTREME@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Is there a limit to referrals?…
    
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  - Statick@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Would love an invite if you don’t mind!
    
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  - Anissem@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Any chance you can invite anymore? I’d love to give this game a try, huge TF2 fan. Friend code is 9578195
    
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- Coelacanth@feddit.nu ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Reminds me of the old Dota 2 closed beta days… Good times. Also on an unrelated note, my DMs are open.
  
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  - DScratch@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I slept on my DOTA2 invite and only years later dumped 3k hours into it.
    
    I won’t make that mistake again, given the chance.
    
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- Blisterexe@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Wait how can i refer friends?
  
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  - StrangeName@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    idk, but please remember me once you figure it out.
    
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- arudesalad@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I heard you got a referral, remember all those times I’ve helped you with (insert problem)? You wouldn’t mind if I asked for a referral from you?
  
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- umbrella@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  hi fren.
  
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- Oha@lemmy.ohaa.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  We are friends, right?
  
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woelkchen@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Somebody needs to tell the games team that they make their own operating system. This is Windows-only. WTF.

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- BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  It’s almost as if they are a for-profit company that doesn’t want to waste development time on an OS that have significantly fewer players to sell to and will choose to optimize for Linux as an afterthought.
  
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  - skulblaka@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Yeah but Valve, who is making this game, made SteamOS and the Steam Deck in house. It’s their own product. It would be a monumentally stupid move to release a first party game that doesn’t run on their own first party hardware.
    
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  - woelkchen@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    
    It’s almost as if they are a for-profit company that doesn’t want to waste development time on an OS that have significantly fewer players to sell to and will choose to optimize for Linux as an afterthought.
    
    Yeah, why would Nintendo develop for Switch or Sony for PlayStation when it’s clearly a waste of development time and and money and Windows is clearly the superior development target?
    
    I’m not being biased, just speaking truths.
    
    No, you speak nothing of truth regarding game development has a platform holder.
    
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- pycorax@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I expected this from the start once proton was introduced, just not from Valve themselves… Welp. It’s now inevitable.
  
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  - woelkchen@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    
    I expected this from the start once proton was introduced, just not from Valve themselves… Welp. It’s now inevitable.
    
    Clueless people act as if Proton was like Java, a “write once, run everywhere” environment…🙄
    
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- Thunderphenol@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  It’s really not? You can play it perfectly fine on linux. Performs great for me with 0 issues so far.
  
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  - woelkchen@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    
    It’s really not?
    
    The quality of Proton is not the point, the point is that they’re not dogfooding their own platform.
    
    You guys making the same comments over and over again. I can literally paste previous replies because nobody of you cares to actually read.
    
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- mox@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  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 ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Valve is absolutely developing this game themselves
    
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  - woelkchen@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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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omgitsaheadcrab@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Hello internet friends! Image

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- themusicman@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  s.team/p/jqq-nrbd/fdqnjwff
  
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  - Wilzax@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Use a profile link, not a quick link. They don’t resolve to your profile the same way.
    
    Friend codes are also multi-use.
    
    174156043 or steamcommunity.com/id/Wilzax/, but not s.team/p/pjc-jnbq/drrtjgmh
    
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BluesF@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Worst kept secrets, aka, clever marketing.

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gibmiser@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Hype trains a comin

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doodledup@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
They are trying to build hype. The leaks are intentional and expected.

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Cris16228@lemmy.today ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Anyone interested in an invite?

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- RetroSoul@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I’d love an invite! steamcommunity.com/id/demonictaco. Thank you so much! Please let me know if link doesn’t work. I’m at work so I can’t go on steam haha. They have the website blocked.
  
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  - Cris16228@lemmy.today ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Nope, it doesn’t work
    
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- cess@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I would love an invite if possible, this finally made me stop being a guest and make an account!
  
  steamcommunity.com/id/CessandCessrelatedthings/
  
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  - Cris16228@lemmy.today ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Added
    
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- nothinglikemark@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Can I get an invite? steamcommunity.com/id/MarkillerX/ Thank you
  
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  - Cris16228@lemmy.today ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    You rejected me, I go to sleep then
    
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  - Cris16228@lemmy.today ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Honestly? I just shut down my pc but oy for now if you accept quick
    
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- JimboDHimbo@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  crossing my fingers and toes that you are still bravely marching through the comments
  
  steamcommunity.com/id/jimbodahimbo
  
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  - Cris16228@lemmy.today ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    No account on that link
    
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- Clbull@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  If it’s not too late to ask for an invite…
  
  steamcommunity.com/id/clbull
  
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  - Cris16228@lemmy.today ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Added. When invited please let me know if you can see it
    
    You should get a mail from steam
    
    Hello <user>, You have been invited to join the Steam Playtest for Deadlock!
    
    steamcommunity.com/…/4511003785958903445/
    
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- Enoblk@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  If you’re still at it I’d like to try steamcommunity.com/id/enoblk/
  
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  - Cris16228@lemmy.today ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Added. When invited please let me know if you can see it
    
    You should get a mail from steam
    
    Hello <user>, You have been invited to join the Steam Playtest for Deadlock!
    
    steamcommunity.com/…/4511003785958903445/
    
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- sylvanSimian@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  If you are still doing this, invite me please! Thank you so much! :D
  
  steamcommunity.com/id/mccroryp/
  
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  - Cris16228@lemmy.today ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Added. When invited please let me know if you can see it
    
    You should get a mail from steam
    
    Hello <user>, You have been invited to join the Steam Playtest for Deadlock!
    
    steamcommunity.com/…/4511003785958903445/
    
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- BauerLassSauRaus@startrek.website ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  If you are still at it … +1 steamcommunity.com/id/hazchem_/
  
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  - Cris16228@lemmy.today ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Added. When invited please let me know if you can see it
    
    You should get a mail from steam
    
    Hello <user>, You have been invited to join the Steam Playtest for Deadlock!
    
    steamcommunity.com/…/4511003785958903445/
    
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- turmacar@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Would love to get in on this if you’re still going.
  
  steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197985128777/
  
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  - Cris16228@lemmy.today ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Added. When invited please let me know if you can see it
    
    You should get a mail from steam
    
    Hello <user>, You have been invited to join the Steam Playtest for Deadlock!
    
    steamcommunity.com/…/4511003785958903445/
    
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- hummus273@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Would you add me please? steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197992741590/ Thanks!
  
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  - Cris16228@lemmy.today ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Added. When invited please let me know if you can see it
    
    You should get a mail from steam
    
    Hello <user>, You have been invited to join the Steam Playtest for Deadlock!
    
    steamcommunity.com/…/4511003785958903445/
    
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- Alex6511@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
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  - Cris16228@lemmy.today ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Added. When invited please let me know if you can see it
    
    You should get a mail from steam
    
    Hello <user>, You have been invited to join the Steam Playtest for Deadlock!
    
    steamcommunity.com/…/4511003785958903445/
    
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- anonamis13@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Me too!! steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198042156575 Thanks king 👑
  
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  - Cris16228@lemmy.today ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Added. When invited please let me know if you can see it
    
    You should get a mail from steam
    
    Hello <user>, You have been invited to join the Steam Playtest for Deadlock!
    
    steamcommunity.com/…/4511003785958903445/
    
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- gwen@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  thank you so much!! :] heres mine: steamcommunity.com/id/gwen-real/
  
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  - Cris16228@lemmy.today ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Added. When invited please let me know if you can see it
    
    You should get a mail from steam
    
    Hello <user>, You have been invited to join the Steam Playtest for Deadlock!
    
    steamcommunity.com/…/4511003785958903445/
    
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- JonnyRobbie@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  steamcommunity.com/id/jonnyrobbie/ thank you :)
  
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  - Cris16228@lemmy.today ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Added. When invited please let me know if you can see it
    
    You should get a mail from steam
    
    Hello <user>, You have been invited to join the Steam Playtest for Deadlock!
    
    steamcommunity.com/…/4511003785958903445/
    
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- milomilo@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  steamcommunity.com/id/miloir/ You’re doing good work son
  
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- Maven@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  If you’re still giving invites :D
  
  steamcommunity.com/id/Maventf2
  
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- inbeesee@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Can you please drop me an invite? I’ve been so excited to try since the first leaks! steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198014574052/ Let me know if this link works lol
  
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- shadowbroker@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I would like an invite too. Thanks :)
  
  steamcommunity.com/id/houseschwein
  
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brian@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
friends for over 30 days apparently for everyone here asking for invites

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Minnels@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Looking for new friends with benefits. If you know what I mean.

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Wilzax@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I vow to invite everyone from this thread if I receive an invite myself. steamcommunity.com/id/Wilzax/

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WereCat@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I won’t say no to an invitation but I will say thank you very much instead

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JDPoZ@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Hello fellow gamers! Can I trouble any of you for an invite??? 😁😁😁

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archer@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I’d love to get an invite, too. Thank you very much.

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bionicjoey@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

For the unaware, Deadlock is a 3rd person shooter MOBA. It feels like a mix of Dota and Overwatch/Team Fortress

So like SMITE?

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ludicolo@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Been playing it, it’s actually really fun!

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qooqie@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Icefrog is an extremely talented dev so this game is for sure to be real fun. I trust in the frog as a life long dota player

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tfw_no_toiletpaper@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Anyone having an invite for me 🥺👉👈

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catloaf@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I’d like to give it a try. Anyone got an invite?

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davidfreina@lemmy.davidfreina.at ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I would really appreciate an Invite if anyone feels generous :)

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caseyclysm@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Hey friends, got a spare invite? Slide right on into my DMs 😀

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Adelphius@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I know everyone here is already just asking for invites, but if anyone is feeling gracious, I would much appreciate one too.

s.team/p/hbm-kmvp/mvkmddwm

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Szyler@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Looking for an invite. Will forward to 10 others in this post if it will allow me

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code@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Anyone feeling friendly…

s.team/p/kpd-gjv/cdrdhmfn

Much appreciated

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0laura@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
not interested in playing this game

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ouch@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Hello it’s your long time Linux friend!

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anus@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Would love a DM with an invite! 🙂

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borari@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Yeah i feel like im late to the train of comments asking for a friend invite to the beta, but if anyone wants to add me on steam and invite me that would be awesome.

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MeatStiq@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Yo doods can I get an invite?

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Statick@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Would love an invite if someone has one to send.

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