In style streamer Felix “xQc” Lengyel is claiming that the Overwatch League inflated its viewership numbers by viewbotting, and individuals are calling him out for “coping.”
The Overwatch League was hype. It was. The primary few seasons had been among the many finest esports I ever watched (outdoors the FGC). However Blizzard crashed onerous. It fumbled the OWL so badly, decreasing viewership and hype by switching to YouTube Gaming. Amongst different dangerous errors. Blizzard finally needed to pay out all the franchise groups’ organizations when the OWL did not get the sponsors and revenue they’d promised.
Nevertheless, xQc is now claiming that even these good seasons had been all lies.
xQc Responds To Esports Followers Claiming He’s Simply “Coping” After Being Terminated From Dallas Gasoline
Whereas reacting to a 2019 video of billionaire Mark Cuban discussing the OWL’s peak viewership of 300,000, xQc claimed that these numbers had been inflated.
“These numbers had been so botted,” xQc stated. “These numbers had been so botted, it’s comical. Brother, for a number of years, they tried to cover the numbers.”
xQc then claimed he had heard very completely different figures from somebody at Main League Gaming, again when the Overwatch League was testing its preseason on that platform. An “inside whistleblower” instructed xQc that the variety of folks truly watching was fairly low. This triggered xQc to say a really insightful: “Yo!?”
At this level, xQc stated he’d already signed up for one more season. However he apparently went into panic mode and began organizing his exit.
“Chat, I used to be already organizing how I used to be going to exit over Overwatch League and save myself. How does it make sense for me to be a participant and a model, advertising and marketing myself? You recognize what I imply? It doesn’t make sense. There’s nothing to realize… I needed to get the f*** out of there,” xQc stated.
He added that it felt like “charity work,” with Blizzard “sucking the blood” out of him. He wasn’t in a position to make movies, stream, or vlog whereas working with the Overwatch League. He felt he was “shedding the whole lot.”
In response, plenty of esports followers stated that xQc was simply “coping” with getting suspended from the Overwatch League. In 2018, xQc made homophobic remarks on stream directed at a rival taking part in for the Houston Outlaws. He was fined $2,000, and the Dallas Gasoline suspended him for the rest of Stage 1.
A number of months later, xQc used an emote that was thought-about racist whereas utilizing “disparaging language” in opposition to varied Overwatch League casters and gamers whereas on social media and Twitch. He was fined $4,000 this time. Dallas Gasoline terminated his contract, and xQc left the OWL.
Esports followers identified that xQc most likely didn’t have any type of plan and simply fell again on streaming as soon as he was let go. However xQc fought again in opposition to these claims. His counterarguments didn’t make him look like individual although.
He stated on X: “Cope for what (???) I wasn’t displaying as much as observe effectively earlier than I used to be even suspended the primary time to stream and transition to selection, bum.
“Let me guess, it’s not bots, it’s embeds. It’s not inflated metrics, it’s drops. And many others and so on. Did you neglect that the Season 1 contract we ALL signed was modified cuz of me to permit extra streaming? Brother, I used to be planning my exit on MEDIA DAY.”
Followers replied that xQc may have simply left as an alternative of agreeing to signal one other contract. Additionally they argued that he could have left after having a nasty efficiency that season. However xQc is conserving to his story, and loads of followers imagine him.
A conclusion: “Getting kicked from the Overwatch League was unironically the perfect factor to ever occur in your life, so who cares both approach.”
