Elon Musk streams Diablo 4 as part of his latest doomed quest to turn X into a Twitch killer

pcgamer.com:

The latest step in Elon Musk's scheme to convert X—the worsening service you and I still call Twitter—into "the everything app"? Turn it into Twitch. The flighty billionaire wants the site to operate as a livestreaming service (as well as a bank, a "global town square," and presumably a microblogging platform) and in the last couple of days has even helmed a few game streams himself to test the X's capacity to handle them.

The game in question is Diablo 4, which Musk has streamed himself playing twice over the last few days, once on an alt account and once on his main, which has 158.7 million followers at time of writing.

Musk was actually meant to stream Diablo a few days before. The X owner had originally said he would stream "some silly stuff" like Diablo 4 on September 27, but eventually had to call it off because he was «still working». 

Instead, the first game stream occurred last Sunday on an account named cyb3rgam3r420, and consisted of Musk running a tier 69 (yup) nightmare dungeon on his level 100 werewolf druid. Well, partially, anyhow. It also consisted of about 13 minutes of someone helping Musk resolve technical difficulties with the stream and a truly excruciating 20-or-so minutes of the richest man in the world explaining the intricacies of his build.

Just a quick test of X video game streaming https://t.co/5NCsDczpT4October 2, 2023

Still, you have to admit it worked, more or less. Teething difficulties at the beginning aside, X didn't seem to have many issues handling Musk's first livestream. That's more than I can say for the second stream, however, which went out via Musk's main account and lasted 40ish minutes.  

https://t.co/WLQ6Qi7B7BOctober 3, 2023

For whatever reason, perhaps the fact that Musk's