Factory Sealed and Totally Broken: The Collectors Paying Big Money for Games That Were Never Fixed
Before day-one patches became standard practice, games shipped with bugs that accidentally became features — and a dedicated community of collectors now treats those original broken builds like sacred artifacts. From glitch-dependent speedrun routes to balance exploits that defined entire competitive metas, the unpatched version of a game is increasingly seen as the real one. We dig into why pristine, pre-patch software is selling for thousands and what it says about how we think about authentic
