On his face, the claim seems unlikely: in addition to being the richest man in the world, CEO of multiple companies and main adviser to President Trump, Elon Musk says he is also a world -class video game player.
It is a claim that Mr. Musk has repeated over the years. He has account On X, his social media platform, dedicated to publishing his most prominent games. It has been broadcast with some of the world’s best competitive video game players on platforms like Twitch. His name was dug on the international leaders’ paintings of some games.
But last week, the players’ community has long tried to persuade him. I started with a set of direct broadcast of Mr. Musk Path of Exile 2, a famous game playing roles known as difficult. Although his account shows that he got one of the highest levels of the game, his playing method looks like amateurs.
Internet slide Make Youtube videos And I took to Reddit links To dissect his playing way, expose the mistakes made by the beginner. Other players indicated that the path of Mr. Musk of Exile Exclue was sometimes active and did not play himself, as was Monday morning, while he was in the inauguration of Mr. Trump. The case of Mr. Musk’s account indicated that the entry to the game and inside the “map” were logged in, which means that it was possible – albeit sure – that someone on the account was playing the game while Mr. Musk was sitting behind Mr. Trump.
“How are you there?” One interrogation While watching a screen divided into the game and Mr. Musk in the Capitol Rotonda, where Mr. Trump was divided with it. “How are you in sulfur caves now, Elon?”
Thousands of players moved to X to accuse Mr. Musk from “strengthening” his account-that is, payment of promotions on web sites of external parties, or employing people to play his novels about him. The equivalent of stolen courage games was.
It is rare for the billionaire to touch it, whether it fired missiles or slaughtered my digital GoatIt leads to anything but controversy. But for Mr. Musk, “Hardcore Gamer” is a major part of the identity that he tried to show: a student who taught a lot in the student who teaches a lot in equal parts, the astronaut and a serial technology businessman.
Although he became one of the most powerful people in the Trump administration, he did his best to show that he appreciated the culture of video games. Among Mr. Musk on the Internet and very males, great gaming skills are something to be admired.
“He wants people to really search for him,” said Rod Brisslaw, a video and videos consultant for a long time. “It should be good in video games so that it can be great for all fans, all its technical events, and all the people in technology, toys and the world of artificial intelligence.”
Mr. Musk has paid a great structure in the world of games for years. According to Walter Isaxon billionaire, Mr. Musk student A role in Cyberpunk 2077, Future and Future Video Games concession that first appeared in 2020.
He broadcast himself while playing Diablo 4, the chain of brood and the beast he plays Break sales records When it was released. He gave up the game Elden Ring, which played the role of roles, describing it as the “most beautiful art” that he watched at all In a post to x.
But the hard -line players were skeptical. In 2022, Mr. Musk raised the eyebrows in the gaming community when it was Publish a photo From “Build” to Eden Ring, the diverse types of players that players can use to customize their characters. The game’s fans described it as a “garbage building”, which consists of a series of no -meaning equipment options by someone who seemed to have no idea how to play the game.
Mr. Musk discussed his games in an interview with Joe Rogan, The Celebrity PodCaster. Mr. Musk cited the unofficial leaders of the leaders that showed him the rank as one of The best 20 Diablo 4 players in the world.
The players asked how possible. It does not seem that the amount of time needed to acquire some of the elements and capabilities achieved by the MUSK game – up to 10 hours of playing daily, according to some estimates – line up with his travel schedule and event.
Mr. Musk opened fire on those who refuse to jobs at X – some of them deleted it later – and attacked some critics for their own capabilities.
But a week ago, Nicholas Hayes admitted, a YouTube games The character, that, in fact, strengthens his novels.
In the messages that Mr. Hayes shared in a video clip on YouTube, the billionaire asked whether he had reinforced, Mr. Musk responded with 100 % expressive symbols.
“It is impossible to overcome the players in Asia if you do not,” Mr. Musk said in the messages. He later republished the video to his X’s extract. He did not respond to the requests for comment.
In an interview with the New York Times, Mr. Hayes said he was not surprised by the revelation. Diablo played with Mr. Musk in the past, and recalled moments when the billionaire indicated that he had not gained the equipment of his personality himself, or that another player presented him as a gift.
Mr. Hayes said: “I mean, it’s Elon Musk.” “If you are playing with him, perhaps a set of things will give him.”
However, Mr. Musk defended his willingness to games, and said in the messages to Mr. Hayes that reinforcement is common among the elite players in Diablo. Two of his children’s mothers have reached his defense.
“Only for my personal pride, I would like to remember that my child’s father was the first American Druid in Diablo to hold Zir’s dowry and end this season with the best in the United States.” One of the difficult cells of the game in the game. “I noticed these things with my eyes.”
Chiffon Zelis, who worked with Mr. Musk in many of his companies, has been known to be the mother of three of his children, a video clip last week for Mr. Musk, who plays Diablo. In the responses, I made a memory when he installed it for 17 hours on Christmas Day in 2023.
“He took a break for family meals and gifts at Christmas, but he was very excited to sleep, which made both time with Kiddos and 17 hours AOZ pushed that day,” she wrote in a reference to the challenge in Diablo. “It was pleasure to see him enjoying it a lot!”
The reinforcement reinforces the terms and provisions of Diablo IV and Path of Exile 2. But the market for third -party upgrades is strong, and players can choose from a number of websites to upgrade their accounts, most of which receive thousands of dollars.
A spokesman for Blizzard, Diablo publisher, rejected the comment. GEAR Games, Path of Exile, did not respond to a comment.
Some of the path of exiled players who knew that Mr. Musk was a playing player for decades, who were disappointed to discover that he had prompted his account, including Dennis Fung, one of the first professional e -sports players.
In an interview, Mr. Fung narrated the playing of the video game earthquake on the Stephen University servers itself as Mr. Musk in the nineties. (Mr. Musk was not a student. “He was fit,” said Mr. Fong about Mr. Musk, who used the ZIP2 screen name, the name of the company he recently started. “It is not the best in the world.”
When Mr. Musk boasted about his Diablo title on X and on Mr. Rogan last year, Mr. Fong said he wanted to think he is true, because Diablo is generally an easy game without a lot of competitive scene. But with the monitoring of the exile game, Mr. Fong said, “It is clear that he had no idea of what was going on.”
Mr. Prisonau said that Mr. Musk reminded him of the teenager. “This way, he is a real player,” added Mr. Preslaau.
