10 Broken Video Games That Were Fixed YEARS Later

2006's action-RPG Gothic 3 may have sold more than 500,000 copies within six months of its launch, but the original release was an abjectly broken mess, what with pervasive bugs preventing some quests from working at all and even causing the game to crash at random.

Fixing these issues was complicated by publisher JoWooD Productions and developer Piranha Bytes parting ways the year after Gothic 3's release, with the game still in a heavily compromised state and promised patches seemingly no longer coming.

Without a developer to fix the problems officially, JoWooD eventually decided to hand the game's source code over to the modding community to fix it themselves.

Though it took a lot of time, by 2012 a massive 1.5GB "Community Patch" had been released to render the game fully playable, and in 2014 another patch followed to fix further issues.

Efforts are still ongoing to plug story gaps and remedy lore inconsistencies with previous games in the series.