Diablo III: Reaper of Souls

We picked up Diablo III: Reaper of Souls in 2014 and never looked back. This was back when we were still finding our footing as a stream, and the house was absolutely glued to the endless loot hunt. Reaper of Souls was the expansion that actually fixed what players hated about the base game—we watched the community lose their minds over better drops, actually viable Inferno difficulty, and build diversity that finally felt real. Those 2,085 hours we poured into this game across that single year? They tell the story of a channel discovering what it meant to build a community around one game. The expansion launched in March 2014, and we streamed damn near every week of that year. By the time Reaper of Souls momentum started slowing, we'd already created something special—the kind of viewer loyalty that would carry us through the next decade.

Over those roughly 2,085 hours of streaming, we averaged 580 viewers per stream—a solid number for 2014 when the streaming ecosystem was still figuring itself out. That 1.4-plus million hours watched stat speaks to something deeper: our community wasn't just tuning in for quick raids. They were settling in, watching entire Diablo marathons. Our peak of 3,765 viewers shows the moments when the house absolutely went off—those were the big progression pushes, the first-ever Torment level clears, the moments when everyone was experimenting with newly viable builds. The 2,788 followers we gained that year weren't huge in raw numbers, but that foundation became the bedrock for everything that followed.

Diablo III: Reaper of Souls was the game that taught us what engagement actually meant. Chat wasn't just making jokes—they were invested in builds, theorycrafting about gear rolls, celebrating legitimate character progression. We remember nights when the whole house was arguing about whether a specific item was actually an upgrade, or debating the meta. That's the kind of gaming discussion that creates communities that stick around. Reaper of Souls showed us that our viewers didn't just want content—they wanted to be part of something that mattered.