So that the diligent readers of Igor’sLAB know the “truth” and we will of course follow Elon Musk’s post ourselves, here is an exciting story today that has been spreading like wildfire in the Path of Exile gaming scene and x.com community over the past few days. I’ll take you with me on this journey and we’ll take a look together at what happened.
“You, the people, must be the media, as it is the only way your fellow citizens know the truth.” Elon Musk
An important foreword on my part
There may be some screenshots of this research that have already been deleted by Elon Musk himself. So please don’t be surprised if you can no longer find certain tweets or posts from my article by doing your own research. I saved all the screenshots promptly and captured them for this article a few days ago because, as I mentioned, the research took several days and took on a certain momentum of its own. Apart from my small color adjustment of one screenshot of the ranking list of Elon Musk’s account, no other images of the content have been edited.
Path of Exile 2 is not an easy ARPG (action role-playing game)
Anyone in the top ranks of the Path of Exile 2 (PoE) world rankings not only has a lot to offer in terms of gameplay, but is also incredibly determined and extremely persistent. Elon Musk himself has spoken in past podcast episodes with Lex Fridman and Joe Rogan about what a blatant gamer he is. According to Musk’s own statements in podcast appearances, he was already one of the best Quake players in the world at the time. An incredible achievement, as Quake is a fast and frantic first-person shooter that requires a lot of talent and cognitive demands.
Musk has also regularly streamed Diablo 4 in recent months and, since the Early Access release of Path of Exile 2 on December 6, 2024 , of course also the latest hit from Grinding Gear Games – the creators of the previous title: Path of Exile. However, it was already noticeable in the past that Elon Musk was represented in the world rankings in Diablo 4. Gamers have always wondered how the good family man combines all his companies, children and gaming at the highest level, as Musk himself was already among the top players in the world rankings in Diablo 4.
If you haven’t played Path of Exile 2 until the late “endgame” (game section) after the campaign, you can hardly imagine how difficult it is compared to Diablo 4, where you have to invest a lot more time to get your character into the level range of well over level 95. We are really dealing here with a playing time of several hundred hours per character, which is not the case in Diablo 4. In order to play a character to over level 95, you probably have to invest an average of 200 to 300 hours of play to even get that going. Elon Musk has just such an account in the ranking, which was well over level 98 during the research, and to top it all off, in the incredible Hardcore mode!
The Hardcore game mode in Path of Exile 2
If you choose the”Hardcore” game mode, you can’t afford to make a single mistake. If you die here during the campaign or in the later “Endgame”, your character and all the items you have collected are gone. Here you can only be one of the best players in the world with perfection and sophisticated game knowledge. And what happens if I die and don’t pay attention for a moment? The character is deleted and all game progress is completely lost. Only very few people in the world can even get a character to the endgame in the games Diablo or Path of Exile. Many people therefore don’t even reach the last place in the ranking.
Elon Musk is one of these extreme players, he is not only in hardcore mode , but has even been in the top 100 of Path of Exile 2 with several characters. In other words, he has achieved a feat of gaming skill like no other person on this planet. Did you think…
07. January 2025 – Quin69TV releases the first video
The Twitch streamer Quin69TV uploads a video to his YouTube channel on January 7, 2025 in which he analyzes and comments on a live recording of Elon Musk’s Path of Exile 2 gameplay on Platform X. Quin69TV gives the YouTube video the title:”Elon Musk Absolutely Clueless Trying to Pilot his Boosted PoE2 Account on Stream”. In the video, the streamer goes into all the points that make Elon Musk seem very suspicious at first, as he lacks a rough understanding of the game and the most basic knowledge of certain mechanics in the game and even the valuable currencies and items.
Elon Musk has problems steering his character through the portals into the respective instances. An activity that he would have had to perform thousands of times to even reach his character level of 97. Valuable “Chaos Orb” items that are left behind by the monsters in the instances after killing them are simply lying on the ground and Musk runs past them. Here are many other inconsistencies that already looked more than suspicious when looking at Musk’s gameplay from a third-person perspective.
Quin69TV laughs it off in his video and accuses Elon Musk of account boosting and real money trading (RMT). For Quin69TV, it is clear that Elon Musk bought the accounts or had them boosted by someone else in the background. According to Quin69TV, no established hardcore player would make such serious mistakes. However, there was no hard evidence at the time and it is of course all just Quin69TV’s conjecture.
Source: https://youtu.be/qpXu9ft9h4M?si=-EDOymNPN2Wc8zO8
Just having a bad day?
So was Elon Musk wrongfully accused by Quin69TV and the busy Tesla, Space X, Neuralink and the boring company CEO was mentally stressed and maybe just didn’t have the best performance for a hardcore Path of Exile 2 player that day? After Quin69TV made his accusations public through the video, many gamers and loyal fans asked themselves more and more questions, because after all, Elon Musk is a true inspiration or even a role model for many people. In the gaming scene, too, many viewers simply found it cool that the man not only runs successful companies, but also plays in the absolute world elite in Diablo 4 and Path of Exile 2. Elon Musk just seems to be a real natural!
January 13, 2025 – The wildfire around Musk continues to spread
Following the release of Quin69TV’s video, countless other Path of Exile 2 players and streamers responded to his accusations. Here, the reaction video by”Asmongold” with the title: “Elon Musk is not getting away with this…” gained particular significance.
Source: https://youtu.be/wlCCtrOCvu0?si=Qi04FXDgncdsOz2G
The American streamer Asmongold, like many others, was extremely critical of Elon Musk. Asmongold said with full conviction that he didn’t even have to watch the Quin69TV video himself to know that Musk doesn’t play his characters himself. Those were harsh words he was suddenly throwing at Musk. The assumption that Musk plays all his characters himself in the ranking list had also become a controversial topic on Reddit in the Path of Exile 2 category in the meantime.
On the Reddit platform, users of the community documented the suspicious successes of hardcore gamer Elon Musk and continued to puzzle over the possibilities of exposing him even more strongly and clearly.
16. January 2025 – Elon Musk takes a swipe at Asmongold!
As an act of revenge, Elon Musk took away streamer Asmongold’s x.com verification hook and gamer tag (icon/symbol). Many users immediately noticed this dynamic and after some time, Asmongold mysteriously had his verification hook back, but the gamer tag remained missing. Elon Musk then leaked private chat histories between the streamer and himself on x.com and wanted to imply to the world once again that Asmongold had no power over his content and opinions, which he usually exudes so confidently to the outside world. With this action, Musk probably wanted to show the streamer Asmongold that he can also be completely different if he is attacked in the media as a hardcore gamer.
Asmongold is generally known for always speaking his mind, no matter how bitter or controversial it may be. Musk, however, did not even understand the leaked chat between him and Asmongold himself and thought that the content was strictly directed at his two YouTube editors (editors). The attempt to expose Asmongold thus backfired completely and once again Musk earned a lot of ridicule and scorn, because Asmongold can say and do what he wants. His two YouTube editors simply cut together the clips and content from the Twitch livestreams and receive a share of the money for it. Asmongold is and remains his own boss.
However, the accusations against Elon Musk have not changed. The grave that the supposed hardcore gamer dug for himself with his fake streams and boosted accounts got deeper and deeper with each passing day.
Where is Elon Musk’s statement?
The pressure on Elon Musk increased day by day, as tens of x.com messages flooded every comment section under his postings. After the publication of the leaked chat history between Asmongold and Elon Musk, a picture emerged more and more clearly in the gaming scene: even Elon Musk’s most loyal followers now had little doubt that their idol had been coldly exposed while cheating in Path of Exile 2.
Elon Musk deleted the image with the leaked chat history of Asmongold to remove his traces, as the accusation was a complete wash anyway, according to Asmongold. I saved the screenshot of the published chat history from January 16, 2025 and Elon Musk’s posting on x.com for you a few days ago and captured it for this article. Many days went by and there was still no sign of Elon Musk or any official statement on the alleged cheating attempts in Path of Exile 2.
19. January 2025 – Elon Musk faces up to the allegations
NikoWrex provides confirmation of all the allegations with a chat history between him and the accused Elon Musk himself. With Musk’s permission, he was allowed to delve deeper into the topic and officially reveal the entire chat to the world in a YouTube video, which people have been eagerly awaiting.
Source: https://youtu.be/7Y9sdqKop48?si=bAS-JgVZyRXEsD66
Elon Musk claims that he never wanted to take all the credit for level success in hardcore mode. Even the characters in Diablo 4 were not played into the rankings by him alone. Real money trading – spending real money to get items – is also confirmed by him, with a 100% reaction sticker.
In all of these games, account boosting and RMT (real money trading) is a reason that the account violates the game guidelines and can be banned. Buying accounts or even “level boosting” is also not permitted in almost any game. These are all attempts to cheat, which any game manufacturer will usually punish with a ban. Accounts may not be sold for money or offered as a level service for real money.
Musk claims that any accounts in the Diablo or Path of Exile leaderboards are played by multiple people, which is where many players in the community disagree with the successful Tesla CEO. It seems as if Elon Musk would classify all these things as normal, since every account in the leaderboards is not played by one person anyway. Of course, there is no proof of this.
But Elon Musk is still a blatant gamer – or so he claims!
Despite the accusations, Elon Musk wants to talk about his Diablo 4 achievements in the chat with NikoWrex, where he played through a certain difficult level of monsters in an extremely good time. With reference to his documented x.com stream, which is still available and could be viewed as verification.
Of course, this is still not proof, as Elon Musk could simply be sitting in front of the camera while people play his account in the background. So here you have to decide for yourself what you still want to or even can believe about gaming or other things from Elon Musk. Nobody knows whether the issue of his being a Quake pro is even true, as Elon Musk has always had the opportunity to say in the podcasts mentioned in the past that he shares accounts in Diablo with others, that he has paid people for them or bought items for himself.
Path of Exile 2 has exposedElon Musk
For many months, Elon Musk was able to fool people into believing that he was a hardcore gamer and always at the top of the world’s elite, but Path of Exile 2 and its community were able to put an end to the lie. Nobody in the gaming community expects Musk, who is so busy and runs several companies at the same time, to keep up with the best in the world in video games. You just can’t be the best at every game or thing in life.
One thing will probably be certain in the future – no one will buy that he has achieved all the gaming successes in video games himself without a certain biased basic skepticism. In my opinion, Elon Musk has lost the trust of the gaming scene for the time being.
Path of Exile 2 seemed to be a step too far for Musk and he may have underestimated how difficult the game and the entire mechanics behind it really are. Playing a character blindly in an x.com stream that appears to be in the top 20 players out of hundreds of thousands of active players was not something the confident CEO could pull off so easily this time.
And on that note, let’s end this research with a quote from Elon Musk himself :
“You, the people, must be the media, as it is the only way your fellow citizens know the truth.”
Amen.
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