Is the richest man in the world as good at video games as he claims? Elon Musk’s self-proclaimed reputation as “gamer” high profile was undermined Friday, when video game fans mocked him following a disastrous performance during a game broadcast live.
The affair broke out after the boss of Tesla and SpaceX filmed himself live on January 7 on his social network Path of Exile II – the part accumulating 4.2 million views in a few days -, boasting of having one of the highest ranked characters.
But veteran players accused him of lying about his level, pointing out that he made rookie mistakes and didn’t seem to know the basic mechanics of the game.”He looks like a middle school student giving a presentation on a book he’s never read.“, we can read in a comment under a YouTube video of the game. The French e-sports commentator streamer FunKa published a video detailing the inconsistencies and absurdities of Musk’s game.
Other fans believe that the billionaire had to pay players for his avatar to obtain high scores. Asmongold, a popular streamer on the Twitch platform, even challenged Musk to prove that he had reached this level himself.
These jokes and this skepticism were not received with humor by the billionaire. Elon Musk no longer follows Asmongold on
The quarrel did not end there: the entrepreneur counterattacked with his own accusations. “Asmon behaves like an independent maverick (…) but in reality, he has to ask his boss’s permission before he can do anything. He is not in control of himself” Musk wrote on X.
-A user added a “community rating“under the leader’s message, specifying that Asmongold has no”patron“. The system of “community ratings“, powered by users of the service and established by Elon Musk, is supposed to help fight against disinformation.
Above all, the public spat sparked an avalanche of comments describing the tycoon as “man-child“at the”ego fragile“. Many fans declared that the billionaire had lost their trust. The affair indeed damages the carefully cultivated image of a superman with extraordinary skills: Elon Musk runs several large companies, bombards video games After investing heavily in Donald Trump’s campaign, he will also co-lead an advisory mission to the new government to reduce state spending.
Elon Musk often talks about video games, claiming to be one of the world’s best players in various games, including Diablo IV. He stated that this activity required him to “focus“and that”killing demons in a video game (calms his) demons” interiors.
Path of Exile IIa role-playing game in which the player faces monsters, avoids traps and solves puzzles, is said to be even more complex and more technical than Diablo IV. The tycoon’s poor performance in his live game led netizens to question other supposed exploits of the entrepreneur.
“As a player, you are very proud of your ranking/level. Trying to pretend when he is the richest man in the world is simply absurd and pointless“, one user wrote on X. “It also makes me wonder, if he’s willing to lie about this, what else he’s willing to lie about“.
