I hope you will do these things to make Deadlock the game I know it can be. Not just a generic hero shooter, but a Valve game, a Valve game has high expectations and meaning.

1. Support the game for a long time with meaningful updates.
2. Don’t try to make it like Dota too much. Mobas are some of the worst game genres out there.
3. Look at how Concord failed, and learn from it.
4. Release the game when its ready (hopefully soon) and promote it heavily.
5. Let us make custom maps with the Hammer editor with Steam workshop (There are already custom maps which is amazing, but I don’t want to go to some random file-sharing websites to download them.)
6. Capitalize on the hype. Valve and Rockstar Games have a unique hype factor for their games, but Valve is on a different level. They registered a trademark and people went crazy over it. Do things like reveal some content in a drip feed pattern to get people excited and talking about Deadlock.
7. Make the game similar to TF2, Valve already has a winning hero shooter game that people have been playing for almost 20 years.