The streamer Félix “xQc” Lengyel is allowed to play again on the popular “No Pixel” server in GTA 5 and apparently wants to do everything differently this time than before his ban. Instead of exploding immediately when something goes wrong, he is now keeping his cool.
Why is xQc considered a Twitch villain? The 25-year-old Canadian is a talented player, but his temperament often gets in the way: he is a pretty bad loser. As soon as things don’t go well and he is frustrated in any way, he gets extremely upset, becomes snappy, and loses control. Afterwards, he often feels sorry for it:
- As an eSports player, it early ruined his career. His team in Overwatch, Dallas Fuel, suspended him multiple times and ultimately kicked him out in 2018, after the league had temporarily suspended him for the second time. He was accused of making “anti-gay comments”. xQc said back then: he was just a child of the Twitch chat, which practically raised him.
- As a streamer, fans love it when xQc loses control and goes all out. In recent months, xQc has become the most popular streamer on Twitch: he has particularly great success with role-playing projects like those in Rust or GTA 5. As everyone was playing nicely together in Rust, xQc showed up with his “Team Rocket” and decided to engage in PvP. His fans enjoy being on the side of the “bad boy” who doesn’t follow any rules. A true outlaw, indeed.
xQc just has never been good at losing
It was like this all the time: In GTA “No Pixel” some streamers play as police officers, some as burger flippers and xQc, of course, as a criminal.
Every time xQc felt like he was suffering some injustice in GTA 5, he became snappy again, got extremely upset about the streamers embodying the cops, and was on the verge of a rampage.
So he has already been banned from the “No Pixel” server in GTA 5 three times:
- Once he shot two cops from his prison cell with a smuggled weapon.
- Last time, at the beginning of April, he had heated up his fans with his flames so much that they went off and pressured the developers of the server in their streams.
This is now different: The last ban from No Pixel apparently hit xQc hard. He anticipated being permanently banned and never being allowed to be the villain on No Pixel again.
This seems to have affected him and made him rethink.
In a new stream, he actually experienced a clearly recognizable injustice. xQc was robbing a bank when a cop caught him and immediately emptied his submachine gun on him. There was no role-play involved – a real cop would obviously never behave like that.
The “old” xQc would have immediately freaked out and flamed hard, inciting his fans and staging an uprising. The new xQc, however, just flinches slightly, pulls himself together, and emphasizes that he will not say anything.
Afterwards, he urged his fans to “stay calm” and not go into the other’s chat and get upset over others.
“I lost – Who cares?”
He suffered a defeat. That’s okay! That happens all the time. He actually said he didn’t care while his pulse rose from 120 to 140.
It will be interesting to see how long the new “It’s just a game” attitude lasts for the hothead xQc.
This change in mindset comes perhaps also because the ban from “No Pixel” has pretty much killed his mood and his run on Twitch:
Streamer loses place 1 on Twitch because he is too toxic even for GTA 5.
