A player named Alisa loves Alan Wake. For this reason, she bought the game a total of 4,000 times. However, there’s a catch, as none of the copies work.
Alan Wake is now considered a horror classic that originated in 2010. The game was first released in May 2010 in Europe for the Xbox 360 and, two years later, on February 16, 2012, for Windows PC.
But one player is so enthusiastic about the game that she bought 4,000 copies of it. This is quite strange, as they are not even special editions.
Gamer buys 2 boxes with 4,000 codes for Alan Wake
How did the player come up with the idea? Alisa, who exclusively spoke with colleagues from PCGamesN, is an AV technician and an absolute “Alan Wake” fan. AV technology and media include cameras, projectors, recorders, sound systems, and displays.
Recently, she found a special offer on eBay: two boxes filled with download codes for Alan Wake. She decided to purchase the boxes. Now she is the owner of 4,000 printed promotional cards, each containing a separate download for the original game “Alan Wake” from 2010. Both boxes weigh about 25 kilograms each, totaling 50 kg.
I suspect these download cards come from a game store that was closed at some point and, for some reason, had way too many Alan Wake download cards on its shelves.
What happened next? After trying about 20 of the cards herself, she found that none of them worked. In her surprise, she contacted Microsoft customer support, hoping to activate her games after all. Unfortunately, customer support could not help her for a reason:
Apparently, the 4,000 download codes from the store were never activated. Moreover, the codes were already over 10 years old and thus had become invalid at some point.
So what is she doing now with the “worthless stuff”? She explained that she found it funny to buy two boxes of Alan Wake. And she is not disappointed, as she has other plans for them:
The long answer is that I am currently making an Alan Wake 2 fan video inspired by the live-action film sequences of Alan Wake 2, and when I saw the eBay listing for 4,000 Alan Wake download cards, I had a vision for a scene in which an absurd number of these cards would be used. Once it’s finished, I will probably cover a wall in my room with the cards because that sounds fun. Besides, I just love Alan Wake.
More about old games: Another woman bought a game a dozen times. But that wasn’t due to her love for the game, but rather a different “problem.” The granddaughter suspects that the grandmother didn’t know how to delete the save file:
