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The Verge Under Fire For Publishing Info About ‘Deadlock,’ Valve’s Secret Shooter (www.forbes.com)
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[–] arudesalad@sh.itjust.works 9 points 3 months ago

Closed playtests are usually with very in-development builds. People post the barely functioning game to social media and the game gets bad press. Release day rolls around and no one buys it because "that was that one game that looked bad a while ago"

This seems like a stupid train of thought but a lot of people think like this