Well-liked streamer Felix “xQc” Lengyel is claiming that the Overwatch League inflated its viewership numbers by viewbotting, and persons are calling him out for “coping.”
The Overwatch League was hype. It was. The primary few seasons have been among the many greatest esports I ever watched (exterior the FGC). However Blizzard crashed arduous. It fumbled the OWL so badly, lowering viewership and hype by switching to YouTube Gaming. Amongst different unhealthy errors. Blizzard finally needed to pay out all the franchise groups’ organizations when the OWL didn’t get the sponsors and revenue they’d promised.
Nevertheless, xQc is now claiming that even these good seasons have been all lies.
xQc Responds To Esports Followers Claiming He’s Simply “Coping” After Being Terminated From Dallas Gas
Whereas reacting to a 2019 video of billionaire Mark Cuban discussing the OWL’s peak viewership of 300,000, xQc claimed that these numbers have been inflated.
“These numbers have been so botted,” xQc mentioned. “These numbers have 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 really watching was fairly low. This prompted xQc to say a really insightful: “Yo!?”
At this level, xQc mentioned he’d already signed up for an additional 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 understand what I imply? It doesn’t make sense. There’s nothing to realize… I needed to get the f*** out of there,” xQc mentioned.
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 “dropping all the pieces.”
In response, loads of esports followers mentioned 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 Gas suspended him for the rest of Stage 1.
Just a few months later, xQc used an emote that was thought of racist whereas utilizing “disparaging language” towards varied Overwatch League casters and gamers whereas on social media and Twitch. He was fined $4,000 this time. Dallas Gas terminated his contract, and xQc left the OWL.
Esports followers identified that xQc most likely didn’t have any form of plan and simply fell again on streaming as soon as he was let go. However xQc fought again towards these claims. His counterarguments didn’t make him appear to be a superb particular person although.
He mentioned on X: “Cope for what (???) I wasn’t displaying as much as follow nicely 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 so forth and so forth. 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 a substitute of agreeing to signal one other contract. In addition they argued that he might have left after having a nasty efficiency that season. However xQc is preserving to his story, and loads of followers imagine him.
A conclusion: “Getting kicked from the Overwatch League was unironically the very best factor to ever occur in your life, so who cares both manner.”
