构建完美游戏--游戏修改的实证研究
Building the perfect game -- an empirical study of game modifications
摘要：
游戏开发商不能总是满足游戏社区不断增长和变化的需求，因为开发商的时间表往往已经超负荷。所谓的modder可以帮助游戏开发者满足玩家的需求。Moders是为游戏提供修改或全新内容的爱好者。通过支持模组，游戏开发者可以满足玩家群快速增长和不断变化的需求。Moders有可能在延长游戏寿命方面发挥作用，从而节省游戏开发人员的时间和金钱，并为他们的玩家群带来更好的整体游戏体验。在本文中，我们实证研究了Nexus Mods分发平台上20款最受欢迎游戏的9，521个mods的元数据。我们的目标是从定量的角度为Nexus Mods分发平台的modding社区提供有用的见解，并为研究人员提供未来探索游戏mods的坚实基础。通过这样做，游戏开发人员可以潜在地减少开发时间和成本，因为通过mods增加了游戏的可重玩性。我们发现，提供官方支持的MOD可以有利于感知质量的游戏的MOD。此外，MOD用户愿意为MOD提交错误报告，但他们通常无法使用Nexus Mods平台的错误报告工具系统地完成此操作，导致难以解决的低质量错误报告。根据我们的研究结果，我们建议那些希望为自己的游戏建立一个活跃的改装社区的游戏开发者为改装社区提供官方支持的改装工具。此外，我们建议MOD发行平台，如Nexus Mods，改进其错误报告系统，以接收更高质量的错误报告。
英文摘要：
Game developers cannot always meet the growing and changing needs of the gaming community, due to the often already overloaded schedules of developers. So-called modders can potentially assist game developers with addressing gamers' needs. Modders are enthusiasts who provide modifications or completely new content for a game. By supporting modders, game developers can meet the rapidly growing and varying needs of their gamer base. Modders have the potential to play a role in extending the life expectancy of a game, thereby saving game developers time and money, and leading to a better overall gaming experience for their gamer base. In this paper, we empirically study the metadata of 9,521 mods of the 20 most-modded games on the Nexus Mods distribution platform. Our goal is to provide useful insights into the modding community of the Nexus Mods distribution platform from a quantitative perspective, and to provide researchers with a solid foundation for future exploration of game mods. In doing so, game developers can potentially reduce development time and cost due to the increased replayability of their games through mods. We find that providing official support for mods can be beneficial for the perceived quality of the mods of a game. In addition, mod users are willing to submit bug reports for a mod. However, they often fail to do this in a systematic manner using the bug reporting tool of the Nexus Mods platform, resulting in low-quality bug reports which are difficult to resolve. Based on our findings, we recommend that game developers who desire an active modding community for their own games provide the modding community with an officially-supported modding tool. In addition, we recommend that mod distribution platforms, such as Nexus Mods, improve their bug reporting system to receive higher quality bug reports.
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