Deadlock player gets Alpha access by emailing Valve CEO Gabe Newell directly ValveA Deadlock player on Reddit claimed that they received early access to the game by emailing Valve\u2019s CEO Gabe Newell directly, bypassing the several-day wait time for invites in the process. Although Valve\u2019s latest game has been available for players who can get ahold of an invite for weeks, the company finally acknowledged its existence on August 23, 2024. Deadlock has remained invite-only for those looking to get ahold of Valve\u2019s FPS MOBA, with invites taking two days or longer to be sent to Steam users. One user by the name of Ivyx123 shared on the Deadlock Subreddit that instead of trying to find someone with the game to send them an invite, they were able to get access from Gabe Newell directly by sending him an email. \u201cGabe reads his email,\u201d the post reads. \u201cJust wanted to give a quick shoutout to Gabe Newell! I recently reached out about the Deadlock game and was thrilled to get a response from him. It\u2019s awesome to see such personal engagement from the big names at Valve. \u201cSalute to Gabe and all the devs working on this game\u2014your hard work doesn\u2019t go unnoticed. Looking forward to watching Deadlock grow and evolve. All the best to the team!\u201d Despite Valve being one of the biggest companies in gaming, Gabe Newell has always made it a point to make sure he answers emails from fans, so it\u2019s not surprising he was able to help the Redditor. Though the game is still in Alpha form, overall reception from players has been quite positive. One of Twitch\u2019s biggest names and former FPS professional Shroud shared that he believes the game will \u201ctake over the world.\u201d \u201cYeah this game is gonna easily, and I mean easily, take over when it comes out,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s the first arena shooter MOBA that is actually good. All the other ones kind of stink.\u201d AverageJonas, who has gained notoriety as a Valorant content creator over the years, revealed on August 26 that he\u2019s leaving the Riot title behind permanently to focus on Deadlock. The game hasn\u2019t been universally received, however, as Summit1G mocked the game \u2013 stating that it\u2019s \u201cworse than Overwatch.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Deadlock player gets Alpha access by emailing Valve CEO Gabe Newell directly ValveA Deadlock player on Reddit claimed that they received early access to the game by emailing Valve\u2019s CEO Gabe Newell directly, bypassing the several-day wait time for invites in the process. Although Valve\u2019s latest game has been available for players who can get […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}