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CoD player freaks out in the game, challenges billionaire to a fight in front of Lidl and he actually shows up

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CoD player freaks out in the game, challenges billionaire to a fight in front of Lidl and he actually shows up

This is the internet billionaire Xavier Niel in front of a supermarket (Image: x.comXavier75status1857423356867342733).
This is the internet billionaire Xavier Niel in front of a supermarket (Image: x.comXavier75status1857423356867342733).
This is the internet billionaire Xavier Niel in front of a supermarket (Image: x.com/Xavier75/status/1857423356867342733).

A Call of Duty player from Marseille, France, had connection problems and then challenged the prominent and super-rich owner of his internet provider to a fight online. The billionaire actually shows up in front of the supermarket that the CoD fan had suggested as a meeting point for the one-on-one fight – but only six months later. By then, however, the player had already calmed down again.

Call of Duty and internet problems cause strange near-fight in front of the supermarket

That’s what it’s about: If the internet or the servers cause problems, the shooter game can become a real torture. When everything stutters and lags, the enemies are hard to hit and it feels like you’re just dying in multiplayer modes. Some people’s hat strings sometimes burst and the Internet is often used as an outlet.

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That’s exactly what happened to a Call of Duty player in Marseille, who then publicly contacted the owner of his internet provider. This is apparently the one in France Quite well-known billionaire Xavier Nielwhich includes, among others, the French Internet provider Free as well as various operators and telecom branches in Italy and Monaco.

In his post from May, the CoD fan publicly wrote on Twitter that he hates Xavier Niel and lashes out 1v1 IRL in front of the Lidl on Rue Sainte in Marseille before. He also obviously wanted to fight the owner of his internet company because he indirectly blamed him for his poor internet.

At first nothing happened. And for half a year. To the great surprise of probably all Internet users, the billionaire entrepreneur actually responded to the news a few days ago – from Marseille, on Rue Sainte in front of the Lidl supermarket.

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In the meantime, the Call of Duty player had clearly lost interestto fight with a billionaire. He responded to the late acceptance of his challenge by apologizing. But the super-rich Xavier Niel didn’t want to let anyone claim that. He even recorded a video in which he repeatedly asked the CoD fan to come and stand in the Lidl parking lot.

But nothing came of that either. The Call of Duty player justified himself in a later tweet, saying he was sick in bed with a fever, headache and stomach ache. Which, of course, is really not a condition in which one should be in the mood for street fighting. But of course he is now widely accused of first making big noises and then giving in when his challenge is accepted.

We can only be glad that there wasn’t an actual physical altercation over internet issues and lag in Call of Duty. As annoying as something like this can be, such difficulties should never cause people to get hurt. And if so, then in a professional boxing ring, like Uwe Boll and his critics.

What internet freak-outs have you made that you later regretted?