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Mods can significantly outshine and help to continue the success of the original game, even when it the original game has become dated.

In those cases, players might have to clarify that they are referring to the unmodified game when talking about playing a game.

In some cases the term vanilla is used make this distinction, " vanilla Battlefield 1942 ", for example, refers to the original, unmodified game.

For vanilla games, prefix " v " or " V " is commonly used together with the game title acronym, e. g., VQ3 stands for " vanilla Quake 3 ".