Streaming on Twitch or other platforms is no longer just a hobby for many people, but also a livelihood as a professional activity. Nevertheless, there are individuals who exploit the live broadcasts of some streamers to play pranks or gain an advantage for themselves. Such an encounter also recently happened to the Canadian xQc, when he was banned due to the unfair play of a viewer in DayZ.
Why was xQc banned? On June 20, xQc decided to play the Steam hit DayZ during a live stream. After a gunfight with another player, xQc was erroneously banned when the admin tried to ban a so-called stream sniper.
Stream snipers use the knowledge gained from the stream to find an easy target in the streamer and, for example, effortlessly secure an easy kill.
Stream sniping is banned in many games and on many servers, is considered unfair, and is often punished with a ban.
Which streamer is involved?
- Félix Lenglet is a French-Canadian streamer who streams under the name xQc.
- He is one of the most popular streamers on Twitch and is also familiar with bans. He has been banned on the streaming platform so many times that he even had to undergo “streamer therapy.”
- In addition to gaming, he is also known for gambling streams. Just in May 2022, xQc revealed in a podcast that he lost 1.75 million euros in the casino.
Server admin in DayZ bans the wrong person
What exactly happened in the situation? Lenglet played the survival game DayZ, which set a new player record in April, during his stream. After a few hours of gameplay, he encountered another player who opened fire on the streamer.
Lenglet managed to win the gunfight, but when he wanted to search his opponent for usable loot, the streamer suddenly got kicked from the game. A message on the screen stated that he had an unstable connection.
When he rejoined the server, an admin from the DayZ server teleported to xQc’s character and informed him in voice chat that he had identified a stream sniper 100%. The admin referred to Lenglet as “X,” a short form for his ID xQc.
Before the admin could finish his sentence, xQc found himself back in the survival game’s menu again. This time, the message appeared: “Banned from the server admin. Validity period: permanent.”
X! X! This is an admin speaking. That was a 100% streamsnipe…
DayZ server admin to xQc
The streamer was bewildered and wondered what had happened. Despite the message that he was permanently banned, he could rejoin the server.
The scene repeated itself, and xQc got kicked from the server again, receiving the ban message once more, and he joined the server successfully for the third time: the admin spoke with Lenglet and clarified the incident.
What was the admin’s explanation? The admin team identified a stream sniper in the player with whom Lenglet had the gunfight. They intended to ban him, but something went wrong. As a result, Lenglet was wrongly banned, which the admin wanted to rectify.
X, wait a moment. We had to ban a stream sniper. Something went wrong in the process. We will fix it. […] He came straight for you from about 1,000 meters and tried to shoot you.
DayZ server admin to xQc
Even though Lenglet certainly experienced a brief moment of shock when he saw the ban message in the survival game, he can be glad that the situation could be cleared up so smoothly and the stream sniper did not take away his enjoyment of the game.
In general, it seems that Lenglet is currently on a winning streak. In another stream, the Canadian streamer opened loot boxes in the tactical shooter Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and scored big without realizing it.
