10 Unbelievable Video Game Glitches That Ruined Everything

In the more literal sense, this glitch included in the original release of Eve Online expansion Trinity could basically turn your computer into a very expensive paperweight.

Within just a day of its 2007 release, reports emerged that updating the existing Eve client to Trinity would also result in Windows XP users' boot.ini file - the file used to store boot configurations - possibly being deleted.

This would in effect prevent users from booting their PC, and though computer-literate folk would be able to get things running again with some online help, back in 2007 it was way more of a hassle, when we didn't all have phones in our pockets capable of quickly looking things up.

Developers CCP Games at least acted fast, releasing a patch in just a single day to resolve the issue and even offered advice to help afflicted users restore their systems.

Even so, the fact that such a gaffe could slip through the net at all is absolutely unforgivable. That didn't stop CCP from making a joke about it in an internal employee video later released to the public, though: