X owner Elon Musk is earning the wrath from some in the gaming community after online sleuths exposed him purportedly cheating at popular games such as "Diablo 4" and "Path of Exile 2."
The Washington Post reports that Musk in recent weeks has copped to paying others to level up his characters in these games while insisting that it was the only way he could remain competitive with the top players in the world.
The trouble for Musk began when he recently did a live stream of himself playing "Path of Exile" in which he made a number of elementary errors that some said no gamer who had really leveled up their own character from scratch would have made.
The Post managed to track down an unnamed cybersecurity contractor who first posted evidence on Reddit that Musk was cheating at games and he told the paper that he started getting suspicious when he saw Musk trying in vain to make his character pick up items in the game when his inventory was quite clearly full.
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“It’s like if you said you’re the number two truck driver in the world... and when you try to get the truck to turn on, the windshield wipers start going,” he said in explaining the gap between Musk's level in the games and his style of play. “It just felt like there was no way this guy did this.”
These revelations have led to a backlash within the broader gaming community, and the Post highlighted a highly up-voted comment in the Diablo subreddit that described Musk as "unbelievably pathetic" for being the richest man in the world and still feeling "the need to cheat" at video games.