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The saga of Elon Musk secretly account boosting Diablo 4 and/or Path of Exile 2 characters may be over, as he’s admitted outright he’s done so, along with possibly using Real Money Trading for gear.
In a new video going over DMs with Elon Musk directly, YouTuber NikoWrex said he was given permission to share what he said about his gaming prowess, or lack thereof. The video, heavily downvoted for its subservience regarding Elon’s tactics, goes over the following:
Niko: “Have you ever level boosted (had someone else play your accounts) and/or purchased gear/resources for PoE2 and Diablo 4?”.
Musk: “(100 Emoji) It’s impossible to beat players in Asia if you don’t.”
Niko: “Regarding Poe2, was it your intention to take full credit for leveling your HC (hardcore) characters?”
Musk: “No, never claimed that. The top accounts in Diablo or PoE require multiple people playing the account to win a leveling race.”
Musk goes on to say on his streams that he is at least the one playing, though admits that with say, a Monk as strong as his was, high level gameplay is like “Cookie Clicker” (with a similar Monk, I can attest to that). He’s also asked if he would “apologize to the Poe2 community”, to which he answers “What would I be apologizing for?”
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So I mean, this confirms what we essentially already knew, given that it was close to impossible to get his characters and rank that high without someone boosting him or purchasing top gear. He says everyone does it and that he wasn’t trying to take credit, but he’s clearly positioned himself as projecting that he’s one of the top gamers in the world with these characters.
It’s just been a strange situation that one of the most powerful people in the world cares enough about acting like a top-ranked gamer to pay for boosting and gear and show those characters off to millions on stream. When asked if he’d do a stream with actual top PoE2 creators, he said that he’d be busy preparing for the presidential transition, emphasizing how bizarre this all is.
Will I stop covering Elon Musk’s gaming habits from here? At least until something else absurd happens, as yes, I do think it’s relevant to the industry that one of the most powerful people in the world is a gamer and apparently lying or misleading people about his prowess. My guess is more weird situations like this will follow, no matter if he’s supposed to be busy with co-governing the US with Trump or not.
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