
In the past 2024, Elon Musk unveiled Tesla’s new self-driving taxi, launched dozens of rockets, and spent weeks campaigning for President-elect Donald Trump. But he also achieved another achievement that some say is even more amazing. The billionaire claims to be one of the world’s top players of Diablo 4.
Diablo IV is a popular video game set in a dark fantasy world where players can collect materials, earn Diablo 4 gold, research their own builds, and fight various monsters.
Musk Cleared The Highest Level Of Diablo 4 The Pit
On November 20, Musk wrote on the social media platform X: “You can learn a lot of life lessons by quickly beating the game at the highest difficulty.” Later, he announced that he had just cleared the highest level of the game’s “The Pit” in less than two minutes. He also attached a video clip to commemorate the milestone.
To achieve such an achievement, more than just monster-killing skills are needed. Just reaching the top 150 floors requires dozens of hours of game time. “The Pit” was only added to the game in May 2024, and the latest sixth season started on October 7, with all players’ progress reset to level 1. This means Musk reached the highest level in 45 days or even less.
Does Musk Have Time For Gaming?
Musk manages six companies, including brain-computer interface startup Neuralink, tunnel mining startup The Boring Company, and artificial intelligence startup xAI.
He posts frequently on the social media platform X, which he acquired in 2022. He is also the co-director of Trump DOGE and is now helping to oversee a comprehensive reform of the USA government.
He has so many responsibilities that everyone wants to know: How does he find time to play games?
Damir Sabic, 29, a loyal player of Diablo series of games, said it took him about 80 hours to reach the 129th level of “The Pit” in December. Although his account already has a lot of extra equipment and Diablo 4 Gold, he stopped playing at that point because leveling up had become tedious. He described Musk’s claim that he’d cleared 150 levels in November as “insane.” “That’s sitting in front of a computer and playing every day,” said Sabic, a 3D-printing artist who lives in Houston.
Musk claimed in November on Joe Rogan’s podcast that he was one of the top 20 Diablo 4 players in the world. He also said that he probably spent more time playing the shooter Quake in his last year of college than in all his classes.
Musk’s marathon gaming sessions often bleed into his business life. Walter Isaacson Isaacson wrote in his biography of Musk that before he got Twitter, Musk used to stay up until 5 a.m. playing the role-playing game Elden Ring with his then-girlfriend, the singer Grimes.
Musk once shared a video on Platform X of him playing Diablo IV, which captured audio of him simultaneously taking a phone call. In the call, he appeared to be discussing the test launch of Starship rocket with employees of his space exploration company, SpaceX.
Other tech executives have found ways to play games while running big companies. Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook parent Meta, has long been obsessed with the strategy game Civilization. Phil Spencer, CEO of Microsoft’s gaming business, has also been obsessed with game. Spencer would play various games on his phone during meetings.
Suspicion
Musk claimed that he completed the 150th floor of The Pit in Diablo IV in less than two minutes, which shows that he is one of the top players of the game, at least according to an unofficial leaderboard based on user-submitted data. The developer released Diablo IV in June 2023, and the company did not publish its own leaderboard for the game.
On social media platforms such as Reddit, some players said they did not doubt Musk’s ability to clear the highest level so quickly, especially because it can be played over and over again. But they wondered how he did it in less than two months.
Some players speculated that Musk asked someone to help him reach the highest level. Because the process of reaching the highest level is a boring and repetitive process.
Others pointed out that Musk’s rapid advancement in Diablo IV may be due in part to a vulnerability that Blizzard accidentally introduced in October, which allows players to gain more power than normal. The developer has said it plans to fix the vulnerability in a version update released this year.
Although Musk created Diablo 4 account entirely by himself, his performance in a recent live broadcast was very suspicious. Musk has recently been obsessed with Path of Exile 2, an ARPG game very similar to Diablo 4, and Musk also has a top account for POE 2. But in his live broadcast, Musk acted very amateurish, and he didn’t even know how to activate Atlas.
Game blogger Asmongold is sure that Musk is just pretending to be a hardcore player, and he even extends this inference to Diablo 4. He said that Musk may also hand over his account to a dedicated person to manage, and there may be many Diablo 4 items in his account, but he may not know what they are used for. However, Diablo 4 is simpler than POE 2. For most players, they can’t tell whether Musk is a loyal player. So do you think Elon Musk is a loyal player of Diablo 4?