Controversial Kick streamer Felix “xQc” Lengyel has discovered himself not welcomed within the DayZ neighborhood. An admin in one of many multiplayer zombie survival recreation’s common servers not too long ago banned him, together with his standing as a streamer seeming the possible motive.
Throughout a March 31 broadcast on Twitch competitor Kick, the place he now streams completely due to a $100 million deal, xQc was noodling round a DayZ server with some mates. He was roleplaying a survivor, snatching gear and voicing deaths every time he received taken out by rival gamers or fearsome zombies. All through his roughly two-hour play session, he received booted a couple of occasions, 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 exact 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 the whole lot to make everyone good. Dude, I used to be simply making an attempt to play on the server referred to 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 line with Dexerto, Greekgodx, one of many individuals xQc was enjoying DayZ with on March 31, mentioned the favored Kick creator received banned as a result of he’s a streamer. After all, there’s no actual proof to counsel 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 potential that gamers within the server feared he’d do one thing related whereas enjoying the sport. In any case, xQc leaked the server’s deal with to his hundreds of viewers in a retaliatory response to the DayZ ban earlier than shifting on to different video games. As Dexerto reported, xQc remains 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} a couple of years again, and extra not too long ago 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.