Editing Video game modding (section)

===Motivations of modders===
The [[Internet]] provides an inexpensive medium to promote and distribute [[user created content]] like mods, an aspect commonly known as [[Web 2.0]]. Video game modding was described as remixing of games and can be therefore seen as part of the [[remix culture]] as described by [[Lawrence Lessig]],<ref name="auto6">{{cite journal |last1=Scacchi |first1=Walt |title=Computer game mods, modders, modding, and the mod scene |journal=First Monday |date=3 May 2010 |volume=15 |issue=5 |doi=10.5210/fm.v15i5.2965|doi-access=free}}</ref> or as a successor to the playful [[hacker culture]] that produced the first video games.<ref name="auto2"/>

Mods can be both useful to players and a means of self-expression.<ref name=Olli2010>{{cite journal |last1=Sotamaa |first1=Olli |title=When the Game Is Not Enough: Motivations and Practices Among Computer Game Modding Culture |journal=[[Games and Culture]] |date=July 2010 |volume=5 |issue=3 |pages=239–255 |doi=10.1177/1555412009359765|s2cid=59364177}}</ref> Three motivations have been identified by Olli Sotamaa for fans to create mods: to patch the game, to express themselves, and to get a foot in the door of the [[video game industry]].<ref name=Olli2010/> It has been noted that these motivations encompass [[Motivation#Types of motivation|intrinsic and extrinsic motivations]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Thiel |first1=Sarah-Kristin |last2=Lyle |first2=Peter |title=Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Communities & Technologies - Transforming Communities |chapter=Malleable Games - A Literature Review on Communities of Game Modders |date=3 June 2019 |pages=198–209 |doi=10.1145/3328320.3328393|isbn=978-1-4503-7162-9 |s2cid=150367691 |chapter-url=https://pure.au.dk/ws/files/177771828/C_T19_IdentifyingGameModdingCommunities_cr.pdf}}</ref> Poor suggests becoming a professional is not a major motivation of modders, noting that they tend to have a strong sense of community, and that older modders, who may already have established careers, are less motivated by the possibility of becoming professional than younger modders.<ref name=Poor/>