Elon Musk Admits To Cheating In Path Of Exile 2 And Diablo 4 Amid Fake Gamer Controversy
The Tesla CEO claims everyone at the top of the leaderboards uses account boosting
What a loser.
I totally understand people who use cheat engine or similar to break games and to have fun seeing what they can do. Skipping content. Whatever.
But those that cheat to be able to boast… pathetic.
And then he’s like “well, everyone’s doing it.” 🙄
Honestly, one of the big reasons multiplayer sucks now is because of cheaters. You wanna cheat in a single-player game? I couldn't give less of a shit. But giving yourself an unfair advantage while playing against other people is pathetic and ruins the game for everyone...
Yup. For me it is Lethal Company. While we run from tbe monsters in fear for our lives they have god mode, etc. Which simply ruins the cooperative aspect and just the entire game for everyone involved. Why even play? I guess they enjoy seeing people reaxt to their hacks but I dont give them anything, simply quit immediately as soon as I find out.
Trolls & Cheaters & Just downright punk behaviour is something I don't tolerate in MultiPlayer
Which is why I opt for more Role-playing games like Space station 13 & Barotrauma (Not saying that there's no crappy behaviour there, it's just that those games are high-ceiling & there are less instances)
Exactly. I never cheat in MP games, but I use guides and whatnot in SP fairly often.
If you're cheating in MP, just don't play MP.
This ^
If I'm playing by myself I'll use cheats if I feel like it, like messing around, or if I wanna get that ONE unlock that I've been trying at for months now and I just wanna be done with it....
But in an online game lad? There's no glory in ruining other people's fun.
It’s really rampant, especially in games that have aim assist and controllers/controller support on PC. It’s so insanely obvious when someone is using an aim assist device…i.e. no bullet spread on a small automatic gun and hitting like a laser beam at 60 meters vs someone without has a ton of missed shots at that range. Their KDR is magnitudes of order different. They ruin a match. Unfortunately looking to get them banned doesn’t do anything, seeing as using game features buil-in by the devs is a big gray area. It’s not an aimbot or ESP, it’s using and abusing the provided aim assist.
Well, since the only persons on his mind appear to be Trump and himself: Yeah, everybody's cheating.
In a single player game, yeh.
Cheating in a game that impacts other people is trash
I mainly just have Cheat Engine in order to reduce save scumming in Monster Rancher and keep monsters I like alive longer. I specifically avoid doing anything with the online because I know it's not fair to everyone else. Though some use mods and cheats for the same game just to make it harder.
I cheat all of the time. I am fucking terrible at games.
If he says he’s top 20 player and it turns out he bought that account then what does that mean for the credibility of his other supposed achievements? Oops.
Man who never earned anything a day in his life continues streak by not earning video game achievements.
Who'd of thought. A billionaire a cheater. /s
These people cheat at every aspects of life, society rewards narcissism, rewards people willing to forgo morals. We have systematised this were we can look at hi school bullies and have a vague idea where they will end up.
These people aren't worthy of our respect, and we need to make it known.
This goes against the TOS for both games. If you play either, I highly recommend flooding them with reports on that. It would be great to see him banned. He'll probably just set up a new account and start again, but it'll cost him and you know he'll keep cheating so you can just rinse and repeat.
You're talking about a guy that could pay 100 million dollars for a new account and not even notice. He obviously wouldn't pay anywhere near that much for something like this. There is no financial cost you can force on him that will change his behavior.
Yeah, but it will annoy him.
Still, doesn't hurt to try.
Time is money and it’ll consume some of his.
I don't recall saying anything about even attempting to change his behaviour, anyone with half a brain knows that's a lost cause. The point is being a thorn in his side. He clearly cares or he wouldn't invest the time and money into these games.
I'm sure if there was actual worthy news this wouldn't be reported on however there is obviously nothing else happening so clearly we need to talk about this instead.
This is a consumer board at its core.
Elon Musk attempts to draw attention away from his drug fuelled gaff
Come on, you fuckin morons
Said the guy who called a Sieg Heil a "gaff"
I enjoy that the meta image is him doing the nazi salute
Not that I like him doing it, just that it's being shown around.
Idk how anyone can say he is not a real gamer after the nazi salutes seen side by side with his twitter history.
This is a distraction. Ignore it.
Whaabout being a founder of Tesla?
What do Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning have to do with Elon lying about having mad gaming skills?
It shows you a trend. What other things has he lied about?? He knows more about manufacturing than anyone else... Look at the POS cybertruk
Full self driving will be here next year... Yep 2016 is here and gone, no FSD...
Starship will get us to the mars...
The manchild is a compulsive liar and a fucking Nazi
Because it’s the same thing. He’s boasting about other people’s achievement. He gives them money and pretends he did it.
Known liar founding lying. More obvious observations at 5!
I don't even want to joke about this anymore.
Stay strong and resist folks.
Not many individuals manage to form a stain of shame on their related species. I guess he is, indeed, remarkable in that way.
Buying someone else's ball and going home.
I just remembered that Grimes came out defending him on this topic.
Or did I fall for a meme/shitpost?
She said something about Diablo that I didn't understand as someone who doesn't play that game but apparently confirming that, at one time, he was very skilled. Which is absolutely meaningless in a context where he pays people to play for him and then pretends that he did it.
Diablo IV gives scaled advantage for having very good equipment, and you can spend tons of time getting that equipment optimized. If someone else got him max rolled equipment and all he did was pilot it, it might look to someone who is a non-gamer that he is amazing at the game. You'd have to get the honest opinion of other top tier gamers if he is actually skillful.
Some builds all you have to do is keep spamming one or two attack buttons to wipe out all enemies.
—everyone
People need to cheat at Diablo 4?
He needs to pretend to be a top tier gamer to win the affection of internet strangers because he craves validation and attention.
Natural born grifter and liar.
To me the reality of it is so damn stupid, If this were back to lying about quake, that's one thing. He's claiming on games with continual progression however. Of which even if you have amazing skill, it's meaningless without time. IE it would be well understood that if someone is in those leaderboards legitimately, they've been living the NEET lifestyle (IE spending almost all waking hours playing the game), not say... on a nation tour following around a presidential candidate, while also forming a new government consulting group, spending considerable time on twitter as a user... and being a micromanaging incompetent CEO at 4+ companies.
Only rich people do.
People play Diablo 4? o.0
Touche
He didn't say "account boosting", he said they share accounts. I don't play PoE, much less competitively, so I don't know if that's true, but let's assume it is. Just disclose it. Like, disclose it publicly before you play the game. Don't deny it after being called out on it and then retaliate against the person calling you out on your platform like a petty manchild, then disclose it in private. If anything, people will respect you more for being someone who doesn't play video games all day every day like it's their job.
Its obvious he doesnt play the game either and showed
Account sharing is against GGG's ToS, so Elon should be banned. He probably RMTed it though (still against ToS). He would be fucked during a race though.
In PoE 1: racers stream their entire race. Once a league Zizaran hosts the Gauntlet (HC/SSF) race event, streaming on Twitch (often with a 4-panel split screen). They sub out different races to highlight boss fights and whatnot. You have to provide proof of any "bounty" you won. There are some cash money prizes, so this is all very strict.
During these races, players often have a timer showing how long they've been going, and it's not unusual to see 37 hours of straight streaming the first day. GGG hosts World Firsts events after XPac stuff, and is mindful of exploits.
That is all PoE 1. PoE 2 is in early access; it's the same people, so it should be the same integrity. I know a lot of Diablo folks came over for it, so I can't speak for them.
Who the fuck cares? 😦
It reveals his character pretty well in a clear and verifiable way.
He denied it strongly. Only to have people call him out all over the place which eventually triggered him to admit to it.
And more importantly It reveals his character in a way that some of his die hard supporters might actually care about.
He’s been shedding fans for a long time now, but way slower than he’s been going off the rails, because the things he’s done have rarely been directly contradictory to the image his fans have of him. Sure taken as a whole they are, but individual actions can be written off as haters using cult logic.
This though, this is… just so pathetic… so blatantly approval seeking and manipulative tendencies.
He's the President of one of the more powerful countries in the world, so I think a lot of people.
lol. Sad but true.
My initial reaction mirrored yours; who even gives a shit? But seeing how people have been responding, apparently quite a few. And I'm left here, just utterly blown away that it's this that is making people angry. This? Not all the Nazi shit? Inciting riots? All the molest-y allegations? Lying about a goddamn video game?
Please, asteroid, hurry the fuck up already. C'mon monkey pox, do your stuff.
Believe it or not, a lot of us are actually capable of being angry about more than one thing at a time.
N n nope. Doomerism will not due. The masses without a voice do not deserve to be flushed away just for the sake of being written off along with the outsized vocal minority of status quo warrior right wing authoritarians (and liberal sympathizers of such)
Someone with a Twitter ask GGG when the ban is coming for Elon's account
German Goo Girls?
Grinding gear games
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Peasant
Wonder what else he's cheated at eh?
Just excuses. Not like I care, but he'll never actually own up to this or apologize for being rude to people who called him out.
Of course he is
I"m just glad he had the balls to drop the act, I've known Twitch Streamers who get caught blatantly cheating who are defiant to the end and demand to sue the company
Edit: Dear downvoters, I"m not saying Elon cheating is a good thing nor am I praising him, I"m just saying I'm glad that he came out and admitted it instead of "Naw bro, I'm totally playing fair and am an expert on Diablo of Exiles or whatever it's called.", this is more of a "The bar is so low that I'm glad you shat your pants instead of peeing in my face." than a real compliment.
Not cheating! Boosting/account sharing.
Whatever you want to call it, it's inherently dishonest to take credit for skills you don't have and achievements you didn't earn.
This is a troll account with a post history of straight trolling. Report and block is the only appropriate response.
Not everyone who has a different perspective from you is a troll, buddy.
Why yall disliking this? Have I said something that is not factual or something?
