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Musk Vaulted to the Top of Diablo IV. Everyone's Asking Where He Found the Time

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Please ... there's a youtube video of him playing PoE2 showing how obvious that (1) he doesn't have a clue what he's doing and (2) he's not really doing the grinding.

He just logs on to the accounts every so often and claims he's the big man.

Cringe af, per everything else Elon.

How can such an article can be so empty of facts and at most muster

> On social-media platforms like Reddit, some gamers say they don’t doubt Musk’s ability to clear that top tier so quickly,

when some gamer YouTube video makes it patently obvious that Musk is clueless about the basic gaming mechanics, which is impossible for anyone who've spent so much time at the game, so he has no such ability

K-Hole insomnia, I would assume: https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/...

If only it were that. Evidence just came out that he's not actually playing the game himself for the majority of the time.

Gift link: https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/elon-musk-videogame-diablo-tes...

This says it’s a self report leaderboard, and an incomplete one at that?

https://www.thegamer.com/elon-musk-not-world-top-20-diablo-4...

Time = Money, thus it should not be a surprise that with such proportionality between the two, one with his financial capabilities, could in theory buy time.

Isn’t he supposed to be CEO of like six companies (one of them public)? Oh, and preparing to take up a government role later this month?

And isn't he asking his employees to destroy their work-life balance and pull exhausting shifts and all-nighters for him, and not WFH either?

Hard work for thee but not for me

Except he's not actually playing the game himself, someone else is boosting his characters up. It's been proven.

That brings up a more literal question: Is Diablo IV pay-to-win? (Can people pay to skip grinding and speed to the top?)

There's a season pass that can skip ahead by paying but is mostly cosmetics. Some gameplay gains can be pass-unlocked sooner but aren't game-usable due to being level-gated. (Hence no actual advantage compared to f2p.)

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