Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare

We picked up Infinite Warfare right as the community was writing it off. November 2016 was chaos—the most disliked Call of Duty reveal trailer in YouTube history had just hit 11 million dislikes before YouTube hid the counts entirely. Everyone was dunking on Infinity Ward's sci-fi direction. We jumped in anyway and hit 783 peak viewers that year. The house spent 73 hours across the space combat campaign and multiplayer, riding that wave of redemption narrative nobody expected. Turned out the game didn't deserve half the hate.

The numbers tell an interesting story. Nearly 30,500 hours watched from just 73 hours streamed—that's an audience engagement we didn't anticipate for a game everyone wrote off. With 430 average viewers holding steady throughout our streams, we picked up 130 followers who stuck around. Peak of 783 showed people were curious. Infinite Warfare's sci-fi turn split the community, but our streams proved there was solid gameplay under all the discourse.