Billionaire Elon Musk streams the game Diablo 4 on his platform X (formerly Twitter). The stream was met with criticism, but a huge Twitch streamer came to his defense.
Elon Musk comes across as a newbie: On August 12, 2024, Musk again streamed gameplay from Diablo 4. This time, however, not in his usual surroundings, it seemed.
The entrepreneur had to endure a lot of ridicule as his streaming quality rapidly declined.
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Poor microphone quality, no webcam, children in the background
This was the live stream: Elon Musk’s first livestream went live on October 3, 2023, and the entrepreneur has been streaming on and off since then. He usually has his camera on during the streams and interacts with his fans via chat, answering questions while fighting his way through the dungeons with his high-level character.
However, during his most recent live stream, his microphone quality clearly left a lot to be desired and the Tesla boss didn’t seem to have a webcam to transmit his face. In addition, Elon Musk was probably not alone in the room, because children’s screams could be heard repeatedly in the background. In the chat, his viewers laughed at him for this.
“They really improved the quality of the stream”
xQc defended Elon Musk: Even though there were many critics and skeptics in Elon Musk’s chat, one person was on the entrepreneur’s side. Twitch streamer xQc checked in on Elon Musk in his own live stream and stated in a clip on YouTube: “You really improved the quality of the stream.”
His statement was immediately questioned by his own chat and people asked why the streamer was defending Elon Musk, but expert xQc relied on his competence and expertise. He knew what he was talking about. They had improved the technology and that wasn’t bad at all. The encoding was good.
X as competition to other platforms
Why is Elon Musk streaming on X? Elon Musk wants to build an “everything” platform with his Platform X. This also includes establishing live streaming on the site. He has already done a few test streams for this.
In his latest livestream, Elon Musk also had some good news. The beta for the live streaming tool should be launched within the next week.
In the future, not only the X boss himself, but also other streamers would try their luck on X. The shock that the multi-billionaire streams simple gameplay on X has long since passed for gamers. However, when Elon Musk did this for the first time, gamers definitely had a reaction.