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10 Best Examples Of Games Reinvented By Their Communities

Games ship with a vision. A ruleset, a world, a set of intended interactions — and then players get hold of them, and something else entirely happens. The history of gaming is littered with moments where a community looked at what a developer built and decided it wasn't finished yet: where a party game became a technic...

Games ship with a vision. A ruleset, a world, a set of intended interactions — and then players get hold of them, and something else entirely happens. The history of gaming is littered with moments where a community looked at what a developer built and decided it wasn't finished yet: where a party game became a technical sport, a military simulator became a survival genre, a relaxing sandbox became a collaborative stage.

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