eBay is one of the more unhinged marketplaces you can find on the internet. Sure, millions of people do normal business there every day, but there are some odd things you can buy on the site. For example, one Alan Wake fan spent $240 to buy over 4,000 digital copies of the original game on Xbox 360. Unfortunately, of the codes she has tried, none of them work.
X user @fakephantasm posted the above tweet late last week. For those who don’t know, the “object of power” she talks about is a reference to the supernatural items in the Alan Wake and Control games that essentially warp reality in special ways. In Alan Wake, specifically, the typewriter and clicker are objects of power.
The 4,000 digital codes for Alan Wake showed up at their destination in two boxes, weighing about 55 lbs each, which sounds about right for boxes filled with cards. You might be wondering what could possibly cause someone to spend a couple hundred dollars on such an odd eBay listing. Speaking with PCGamesN, she says she thought it was funny and that she plans on using them for a fan video in tribute to Alan Wake 2.
It is likely that some store had a bunch of these codes ready for when Alan Wake was originally released in 2010. They might have closed and these codes were never activated, so these boxes have been sitting in storage for over a decade.
Every now and then, this kind of story pops up with someone spending a lot of money gathering as many copies of one game as possible. One example is the man who owns almost 3,000 copies of Sneak King, the Burger King promotional Xbox game. We can’t say we would do it personally, but it is funny what people will do with their extra money.
