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Cheating: Gaining Advantage in Videogames

Cheating: Gaining Advantage in Videogames

Consalvo, Mia

Paperback

Games & Activities GeneralGeneral Computers

ISBN10: 0262513285
ISBN13: 9780262513289
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: Sep 1 2009
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.40 Width: 6.80 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
A cultural history of digital gameplay that investigates a wide range of player behavior, including cheating, and its relationship to the game industry.

The widely varying experiences of players of digital games challenge the notions that there is only one correct way to play a game. Some players routinely use cheat codes, consult strategy guides, or buy and sell in-game accounts, while others consider any or all of these practices off limits. Meanwhile, the game industry works to constrain certain readings or activities and promote certain ways of playing. In Cheating, Mia Consalvo investigates how players choose to play games, and what happens when they can't always play the way they'd like. She explores a broad range of player behavior, including cheating (alone and in groups), examines the varying ways that players and industry define cheating, describes how the game industry itself has helped systematize cheating, and studies online cheating in context in an online ethnography of Final Fantasy XI. She develops the concept of gaming capital as a key way to understand individuals' interaction with games, information about games, the game industry, and other players.

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