We studied the Reddit communities for three game franchises at the time of a new release in each franchise to see what the members of the Reddit community for the now-older game would do in terms of their community involvement and membership. Specifically, we sought to determine if community members transitioned to the community for a new game, leaving behind their established community devoted to the now-older game. Our main finding was that most people did not move to the new community, but instead remained with their established community. We argue that nostalgia played an important role for community members, whom we frame as fans. Data came from Reddit communities for The Elder Scrolls, Fallout, and the Civilization franchises, comprising data on over 10 million posts from five different year-long time periods, each centered on the release of a new game in each of those franchises.

我们在每个系列的新版本发布时研究了Reddit社区的三个游戏特许经营权，以了解该较旧游戏的Reddit社区成员在社区参与和成员资格方面将做什么。具体来说，我们试图确定社区成员是否过渡到社区以开发新游戏，而放弃了专门建立于较旧游戏的已建立社区。我们的主要发现是，大多数人没有移居到新社区，而是留在了已建立的社区中。我们认为，怀旧情绪对我们作为粉丝构成的社区成员起着重要作用。数据来自Reddit社区的《上古卷轴》，《辐射》和《文明》 特许经营权，包括来自五个不同的长达一年时间段的超过1000万个帖子的数据，每个数据都集中于每个特许经营权中的新游戏的发行。