It came out less than a month ago. They closed the servers after less than 2 weeks.
The character designs looked like Unity made them to say “this is what a videogame can look like”. It played like TF2 but without any soul.
A few days after release, Valve opened Deadlock’s stream/review embargo and gave everyone infinite invites to the beta.
Everyone in Europe killing each other every generation predates capitalism. Capitalism did increase the scale though; after the fall of the western roman empire, we didn’t see armies of that size until Napoleon managed to draft a million men in a country of 30 million.