The Crew: Motorfest

We hit Oahu's open world in September 2023 when The Crew: Motorfest launched, and the house appreciated what Ubisoft cooked up. The handling was noticeably tighter than The Crew 2, and those themed playlists—street racing, off-road rally, boat races—kept the pace varied. But here's the thing that hung over every stream: Ubisoft had killed The Crew 1's servers months before this launched. We were racing those Hawaiian sunsets knowing this game had a built-in expiration date. Every viewer who stuck with us through those 48 hours knew the clock was ticking on Ubisoft's server infrastructure. It wasn't paranoia—it was experience. We'd seen this movie before. Motorfest looked fun. It felt like a solid sequel. But the subtext was always there: how long until this gets sunset too?

We averaged 249 viewers across 48 hours of streaming, peaking at 292 concurrent. The 11,842 hours watched suggests the community was curious but cautious. We only picked up 4 fewer followers than we lost—basically flat—which reflected that underlying skepticism about live-service racing games.