Elon Musk admits he paid people to play video games for him

According to one of Elon Musk’s associates, the controversy surrounding Musk’s use of augmented personalities in… Diablo IV and Path of exile 2 It is a big misunderstanding. In a live exchange on X, Musk told streamer NikoWrex that he actually paid people to play video games for him. According to Musk, everyone at the highest level is doing it, so it’s okay.

At the same time he was preparing to sit to the right of President Donald Trump, the world’s richest man was arguing with people online about video games. At the beginning of the year, Musk did a live broadcast Path of exile 2 The character is on X. It was weird.

According to high-level players who have a lot of knowledge of the game, Musk said You don’t seem to know What was he doing? His account had marks indicating a man had paid money to have someone else settle it. The players called him out and Musk began to publicly fight the allegations. At one point, she took Grimes, the mother of three of his children, to X Defending the honor of Musk’s games.

Two days ago, NikoWrex posted a video on YouTube in which he said he explained the whole thing. Musk will not respond to questions from The Wall Street Journal about his gaming habits, but, apparently, he will be answering a direct message from a gaming friend on X. With Musk’s permission, NikoWrex posted a transcript of a conversation he had with the billionaire on

“Have you leveled up (did someone turn on your accounts) and/or purchased equipment/resources for PoE 2 and Diablo 4?” Nikorix asked.

Musk responded with a “100 percent” emoji. “But when I post a video of the game or stream it, it’s 100% me,” Musk explained. “It’s impossible to beat the guys in Asia if you don’t do it, like they do!”

Musk brands himself as a professional gamer, and that’s a big part of his personality and personal brand. Using augmented characters in games such as Diablo and Boo 2 Not unheard of, but controversial. Getting a character to max can be a daunting task taking hundreds of hours, and players have long wondered how Musk was able to get characters to that level while spending time with Trump and running multiple companies.

NikoWrex asked if Musk intended to take credit for leveling the character to the max. “No,” Musk said. “I never claimed that. Top accounts in Diablo or PoE require multiple people to play the account to win the leveling race.

Musk acknowledges the central claim of the gaming community’s criticism against him: he doesn’t settle scores himself. This is strange. If he wanted to, he could have created a lot of drama just by stating it clearly up front. instead of, Choose beef With prominent game streamers like Asmongold calling him out.

NikoWrex asked about the fight with Asmongold. Musk unfollowed the streamer on X, withdrew his blue check, and leaked his direct messages without his permission. It seems to imply that Asmongold was not his own person because he was working with the editors.

“It appears that Asmongold needs permission from others to broadcast on X, which suggests that it does not control its own destiny,” Musk told NikoWrex. Musk then touted many of his achievements in… diablo 4, Even a name check that Grimes said she saw firsthand.

At the end of the conversation, Musk said he would consider letting Asmongold broadcast the SpaceX launch. “But he has to admit that I’m a living god of video games. 🤣🤣.”

A few days after this conversation, the self-proclaimed “living god of video games” appeared Sage Hill During Trump’s inauguration celebration. twice. While biting his lip.