“…Accordingly, numerous studies advocate the potential of mods as a tool capable of enhancing or expanding games that have been on the market for quite some time (Alcázar and Francisco, 2021;Kretzschmar and Stanfill, 2019;Poretski and Arazy, 2017;Sukhov, 2021;Wells, 2018), which sometimes are already considered commercially obsolete (Wells, 2018) or technologically outdated (Sukhov, 2021). As a consequence of these enhancementsfor example, graphics, rules, mechanics, and bug fixingand expansionsdelivering new quests, characters, items, and features - (Curtis et al, 2021;Poretski et al, 2019;Poretski and Arazy, 2017), the total amount of hours the game can offer increases substantially (Kretzschmar and Stanfill, 2019;Wells, 2018). This enhanced or expanded content not only makes the game more attractive to its community (Poretski and Arazy, 2017), but also ensures that players' interest endures longer (Poretski et al, 2019;Small, 2018).…”