NS stated that Deadlock from Valve will be a complete failure

Valve’s Deadlock will fail in the opinion of streamer and former esports player Yaroslav "NS" Kuznetsov, who also believes that the game is going to fade within half a year.

This happened during a Twitch stream he organized.

“It might be legendary you know, maybe I am wrong and it will become popular. Look: hype starts, 200 thousand players in the first month, in the second month – 30 thousand, in the third one – 10 thousand, on the fourth there is Artifacts-2. I played it and made an approximate calculation”

In comparison with Riot Games’ Valorant, NS claims that because Valve does not spend much on promotions for its projects such as Deadlock it may not be able to compete with other similar games. NS has predicted that this game will last for only four months before having almost no players.

It should be noted that Valve's Deadlock full version is now available.