Catastrophe: Deadlock's Steam store page breaks Valve's own rules, so Valve is going to have to police Valve

Deadlock
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Valve's Deadlock hasﷺ seemingly broken its own Steam store page rules.

After weeks of not talking about Deadlock, despite it accruing concurrent players in the realm of tens of thousands, Valve finally announced Deadloc🎃k for real last week. As first noted by , the tweet below proclaims that Valve has violated the Steam store page rules - which it made up -ꦏ by not submitting five in-game screenshots of Deadlock for its own store page. 

Now, yes, it's worth pointing out that these rules technically apply for Steamworks partners. Is Valve actually a Steamworks partner, if it owns the entire platform? Well, it's also worth pointing out that Valve previously violated its own terms with an awards sticker on an image for The Orange Box, and summarily removed s🌌aid awards sticker for violating the rules.

This precedent, whic𒈔h Valve itself set, posits that Valve is technically a Steamworks partner, and therefore must abide by Steamworks' own rules. What's funny about this entire situation is that we're all relying on Valve to police, well, Valve.

At the time of writing, despite Deadlock's player base being "limited to friend invites via our playtesters," it's been able to rise to the highs of 64,000 concurrent players on Steam over just the last few days. Conversely, Sony's new Concord hasn't been to hit 700 concurrent players on PC at the same time, 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:s𓆉howing the highs and lows of live serviಌce games.

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Hirun Cryer is a freelance reporter and writer with Gamesradar+ based out of U.K. After earning a degree in American History specializing in journalism, cinema, literature, and history, he stepped into the games writing world, with a focus on shooters, indie games, and RPGs, and has since been the recipient of the MCV 30 Under 30 award for 2𒅌021. In his spare ti൩me he freelances with other outlets around the industry, practices Japanese, and enjoys contemporary manga and anime.