Video game forums and on-line participation

Hoa Nguyen
The purpose of this wiki is to explore the culture of video game modding community. Specifically, I want to explore how and why user create "new content" for a particular video game.

Some example of games I could use for a case study is the popular video game Minecraft and Counter Strike(CS). These two game genre are different in nature but by looking at the players and users(creator of mod) and how they play the game differently from the original game.

Why this topic is Interesting
This topic is interesting because there are a lot video game that have been modded. The reasons being varies a lot depending on the game, some game are modded to fix and balance the game, others to experiment new things in the game that have never been done before (Minecraft mods for example).

Questions
Some question I will try to answer are, why do user create these new content? Mainly, for whom do they make it for? The community or for themselves? What is their biggest motivation for creating new content?

Method
I will go to an online modding community forum such as Minecraft to ask the above question.

I will also use some reference from scholarly sources to help answer the questions