10 Broken Video Games That Fans Had To Fix

It isn't overstating the case to say that 2013's SimCity reboot had a disastrous launch, with the game's always-online DRM preventing many from being able to play it at all due to server issues, and even if they could play, long loading times, crashes, and lost save data were common.

Within around a week of its release, however, modder "UKAzzer" released an unofficial patch which removed the always-online requirement, allowing players to finally play a version of the game they paid for without interruption.

In addition to EA refusing to provide refunds to understandably frustrated players, they also took more than a year to release their own offline patch, by which time anyone who needed the assistance had surely made use of UKAzzer's release.

Almost as frustrating as the botched launch is the fact that, underneath all this nonsense, SimCity is actually a really great game.