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STUDENT : SAMIA CAPISTRANO GOMES
DATE: 18/08/2022
TIME: 09:00
LOCAL: Sala virtual
TITLE:

Evaluating Nexus Modifications Popularity and Positive Evaluations: An Empirical Study

KEY WORDS:

Modding; Software engineering and Games, Mods, Nexus Community

PAGES: 80
BIG AREA: Ciências Exatas e da Terra
AREA: Ciência da Computação
SUBÁREA: Metodologia e Técnicas da Computação
SPECIALTY: Engenharia de Software
SUMMARY:

In recent years, computer games have grown in the number of users, application area, and development complexity. In this context, modding stands out, which are changes created by game users (Modders), made available for free through modification communities. One of the largest modification-sharing communities is Nexus Mods, with over 300,000 diverse files available to its users.
The Mods tend to increase the life cycle and sales and help add new functionality to games, but few studies have analyzed them. So we studied the mods in order to identify patterns of artifacts focusing on their popularity and quality (positive evaluations).
This study identified which dimensions could distinguish popular modifications from unpopular ones and the mods with many positive evaluations from those with few positive evaluations. We also identify the features with significant explanatory power under popularity and positive evaluations of the mods. For this, Logistic models were proposed and analyzed using statistical calculations. We analyze 40,865 popular mods and 40,865 unpopular mods, 40,865 mods with many positive evaluations, and 40,865 with few positive evaluations from the Nexus Mods community through 4 dimensions (Mods Categories, Mods Documentation, Mods Community Contribution, and Modders Characteristics ) and 27 characteristics.
As a result, we obtained that all the dimensions studied have the power to distinguish popular modifications from unpopular ones and modifications with many positive evaluations from those with few positive evaluations. Of the 27 features, 23 features have significant explanatory power under mod popularity, and 22 under mod positive evaluations. This study has identified a need to integrate the versions of mods and their version evaluations, enable negative evaluations, create a good description, and add tags to the mods, among other implications and perspectives for the Nexus community, Modders, users, and researchers.

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