He feels unlikely on his face: besides being the richest man in the world, the CEO of more companies and the key advisor to President Trump, Elon Musk says he is also a world -class player.
It is a statement that Mr. Musk has repeated over the years. He has an X account, his social media platform, which is devoted to publishing the main games. Streamed with some of the best competing video game players in the world on platforms like Twitch. He even etched his names on the global advice of the leaders of certain games.
But last week, the community of players, which he had long tried, turned against him. It started through the live way MR. Despite his birthday, he shows that he gained one of the highest levels of play, his playing looked like an amateur.
Internet Sleuths created videos on YouTube and took the Reddit thread to dismantle its game, show errors that a newcomer would make. Other players pointed out that Mr. Musk’s journey was sometimes active, that he couldn’t play alone, as on Monday morning while he was at Mr.. Mr. Musk’s account status indicated that he was logged into the game and inside the “map”, which meant that it was possible that someone was playing in the account while Mr. Musk.
“How are you?” One streamer asked when watching the divided screen of the game and Musk in Capitol Rotunda when Mr. Trump swore. “How are you right now in the caves of sulfur caves, Elone?”
Thousands of players took X to accuse Mr. Musk of “strengthening” histont-this is that they pay for upgrades on third-party websites or hiring people to play history for it. It was a game equivalent of stolen Valor.
It is rare that something a billionaire touches, starting missiles or killing digital goats, resulting in anything other than controversy. But for Mr. Musk, “Hardcore Gamer” is a key part of the identity he tried to screen: a polyma stupid stupid, who is equal to cars, a pioneer of the universe, and a serial entrepreneur.
Although he became one of the most powerful people in Trump, he went to a large extent to show that he was approaching the video game culture. And among Mr. is very online and very male fandom, great game skills are something to admire.
“People want people to really look at him,” said Breslau, a long -time analyst of video games and consultants. “He must be good in video games to be cool for all fans, all his technological events, all the people who are in his technique, players and AA World.”
For years, Mr. Musk has sought a high profile in the game world. According to Walter Isaacson billionaire, Musk asked the role in Cyberpunk 2077, a very hypertical, futuristic video game franchise, which debated in 2020. Three children played the character.)
Streaming Diablo 4, a series for floors, Monster-Slaying, which, when released, broke sales records. And he ran over the playing role of playing on the hit Elden Ring and called it “the most beautiful art” ever had in the paper in X.
But the hardcore players were skeptical. In 2022, Mr. Musk lifted his eyebrows in the game community when he published a photo of “build”, which is a variety of devices that players can use to customize their characters. Fans of the game called this “waste assembly”, composed of a series of nonsensical options for choosing equipment that made someone who seemed to have no idea how to play the game.
Mr. Musk Discusd his games in the November interview with Joe Rogan, a celebrity of Podcaster. Mr. Musk quoted a non -wicked ranking that proved to be one of the 20 best Diablo 4 players in the world.
Players asked how it was possible. It seemed that the amount of time required to gain some items and abilities of Mr. Musk – up to 10 hours of play a day did not seem to be lined up with its timetable for travel and events.
Mr. Musk fired back to Naysayers on posts on X – some of them later deleted – and attacked some critics for their own game skills.
But at the weekend he confessed to Nicholas Hayes, a game personality on YouTube that he actually strengthened his birth.
In the news, Mr. Hayes shared in a video on YouTube, asked a billionaire if he had increased, and Mr. Musk was breathable with 100% emodi.
“It’s impossible to beat players in Asia if so,” Mr. Musk said in the news. Later he put the video in his own feed X. He did not answer the comments on how.
In an interview with The New York Times, Mr. Hayes said he was surprised by the revelation. In the past he played Diablo with Mr..
“I think it’s Elon Musk,” Mr. Hayes said. “If you play with him, you probably give him a lot of things.”
Yet Mr. Musk prevented his gaming ability and told Mr. Hayes in the news that strengthening is common among the elite players in Diablo. And two mothers of his children came to his defense.
“For my personal pride, I would like to mention the father of my children the first American druid in Diablo, which cleaned the slaughterhouse Zir and ended this season in the US,” MS wrote. One of the difficult maps of the dungeon game. “I watched it with my own eyes.”
Shivon Zilis, who worked with Mr. In replicas, she overwhelmed the memory of when he was played for 17 hours on Christmas Eve in 2023.
“He took breaks for family meals and Christmas gifts, but he was too excited about sleep, so he took the time with Kiddos and 17 hours, and the work of work,” she wrote, turning the challenge in Diablo. “It was a pleasure to see how much they enjoy so much!”
Increasing violates Diablo IV and Path of Exile 2.
Blizzard spokesman, Publisher Diablo, refused to comment. Grinding Gear, the publisher of Path of Exile, did not respond to the request for comment.
Some way of players exile, who knew Mr. Musk was a passionate player for decades, has been disappeared to find out that he paid for strengthening Hist, including Dennis Fong, one of the first professional electronic players.
In an interview, Mr. Fong visited the game of Quake video games on the Servers Sersity Sans Sans Stanford as Mr. Musk at the age of 90. (Mr. Musk was not a study.) “He was decent,” Mr. Fong said. “Not one of the best in the world.”
When Mr. Musk. But he watched the way of playing exile, Mr. Fun said that “it was obvious that he had no idea what was going on”.
Mr. Breslau said Mr. Musk reminded him of a teenager. “In this way,” Mr. Breslau added, “he is a real player.”
