The strange drama surrounding Elon Musk's purported videogame skills has now elevated itself into a genuine online beef, as the world's richest man has leaked DMs from Asmongold that he thinks expose the streamer as a fraud, and perhaps even worse, says Asmongold «is NOT good at videogames.» The whole ridiculous thing began last week, when Musk streamed an hour and a half of Path of Exile 2 gameplay with his level 95 hardcore character.
Achieving that level with a hardcore character is a genuinely impressive feat, but Path of Exile 2 players began calling his purported skills into question based on gameplay seen in the stream that is decidedly not what you'd expect from any high level player, much less one who holds one of the top spots on the PoE2 hardcore ladder.
The suspicion, simply put, is that the account is either boosted by or shared with someone else who actually knows PoE2, and that Musk simply takes the keys now and then for public performances.
That inspired Asmongold, one of the world's most popular gaming streamers, to issue a challenge: He'll stream on X for an entire year if and when Musk proves the hardcore PoE2 account is really his.
He also left no room for doubt about his own feelings on the matter: «Did Elon Musk play this account to level 97? The answer is very simple: no.» Just a little bit of trash-talking, certainly nothing unusual or egregious in our current day and age, but Musk did not take it well.