Controversial Kick streamer Felix “xQc” Lengyel has discovered himself not welcomed within the DayZ group. An admin in one of many multiplayer zombie survival recreation’s widespread servers lately banned him, along with his standing as a streamer seeming the seemingly cause.
Throughout a March 31 broadcast on Twitch competitor Kick, the place he now streams solely due to a $100 million deal, xQc was noodling round a DayZ server with some pals. He was roleplaying a survivor, snatching gear and voicing deaths each time he acquired taken out by rival gamers or fearsome zombies. All through his roughly two-hour play session, he acquired booted just a few instances, primarily as a result of the servers he landed into closed after some time. Nevertheless, after a while in the DayOne Chernarus 1PP server, a well-liked room for gamers to dwell out a extra hardcore DayZ expertise, xQc was swiftly kicked from the sport and banned from that specific server. The pop-up message from the admin merely learn, “Thanks, however no thanks.”
“Bro, bro, bro, kick by admin. Banned. It says, ‘Thanks, however no thanks.’ What did I do?” xQc questioned. “Bro, I’m enjoying the online game. Brother, brother. I used to be roleplaying. I didn’t do something. Brother, I actually hid the fucking server. I did all the things to make all people good. Dude, I used to be simply making an attempt to play on the server known as fucking DayOne Chernarus 1PP No Bases|Journey, dude. I used to be simply making an attempt to play [the game.] What the fuck? Like, what the heckington, dude? Christ.”
In accordance with Dexerto, Greekgodx, one of many folks xQc was enjoying DayZ with on March 31, stated the favored Kick creator acquired banned as a result of he’s a streamer. In fact, there’s no actual proof to recommend this was the rationale; nonetheless, huge names can entice undesirable consideration, and xQc’s popularity for on-line conduct isn’t precisely spotless, as he was banned on Twitch in November 2020 for stream-sniping in Fall Guys. It’s doable that gamers within the server feared he’d do one thing comparable whereas enjoying the sport. In any case, xQc leaked the server’s deal with to his 1000’s of viewers in a retaliatory response to the DayZ ban earlier than transferring on to different video games. As Dexerto reported, xQc continues to be banned from the DayOne Chernarus 1PP server.
Kotaku has reached out to Bohemia Interactive and xQc for remark.
xQc has usually been the middle of battle and controversy, having famously gambled away hundreds of thousands of {dollars} just a few years again, and extra lately reacted to YouTube movies of the carnage in Gaza, which drew heavy criticism. In comparison with that, a ban from a DayZ server appears downright quaint.
