The Verge Under Fire For Publishing Info About ‘Deadlock,’ Valve’s Secret Shooter

Valve gives you access to a game and tells you not to spew your mouth off. A gentleman's agreement if you will.

You spew your mouth off and valve takes access away.

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This is a non-issue of you ask me. A person, who happens to be a writer, got access to the game through a steam friend and was asked not to talk about it but thought they could just not agree to a warning and write about it anyway? I got access too and i didnt write about the game. I get to go back and play it today, they cant.

I can’t believe their secret game they gave to 10 thousand people got leaked

I think the thing everyone is forgetting is that valve isn't stupid, there's no way they didn't realize you could work around accepting the (legally unenforcable) NDA, and it's open invite.

Valve 100% knows that keeping it "secret" is good for hype and was expecting this to happen at any time, and the nominal ban was expected, but nobody is gonna get sued either.

More people are talking about Valve's "secret" new game because of this than would be if they openly announced it.

What was so secret about it?

It's just bad faith reporting. It reminds me of Kotaku sneaking into conventions before they opened to report what games were there.

It lowers my opinion of The Verge, I used to think they were at least reputable with standards, but that's a real tabloid move.

Decent thing to do would have been ask valve for time when they want the article published

Why wouldn’t they just put journalists they gave access to under embargo?

At the end of the day, the editors will have to answer to not receiving access to Valve for statements or tips moving forward.

"Leaked".

All leaks are deliberately orchestrated to fan the hype train.

And at the end of the day....it's just an ok game.

Eh. I find it difficult to have any sympathy for Valve. Sounds like it was only a matter of time before someone did this. If anything this is just free marketing.