UID:
almafu_9959227592902883
Format:
1 online resource (241 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-282-09880-2
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9786612098802
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0-262-27074-9
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1-4294-7966-3
Content:
"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."--Jacket.
Note:
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction TO CHEAT OR NOT TO CHEAT: IS THAT EVEN THE QUESTION? -- Part I A Cultural History of Cheating in Games -- 1 CREATING THE MARKET: EASTER EGGS AND SECRET AGENTS -- 2 GUIDANCE GOES INDEPENDENT: THE RISE OF STRATEGY GUIDE PUBLISHERS -- 3 GENIES, SHARKS, AND CHIPS: THE TECHNOLOGICAL SIDE TO CHEATING -- Part II Game Players -- 4 GAINING ADVANTAGE: HOW VIDEOGAME PLAYERS DEFINE AND NEGOTIATE CHEATING -- 5 THE CHEATERS -- 6 BUSTING PUNKS AND POLICING PLAYERS: THE ANTICHEATING INDUSTRY -- 7 A MAGE'S CHRONICLE: CHEATING AND LIFE IN VANA'DIEL -- Part III Capital and Game Ethics -- 8 CAPITALIZING ON PARATEXTS: GAMEPLAY, ETHICS, AND EVERYDAY LIFE -- Notes -- References -- Index.
,
English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-262-51328-5
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-262-03365-8
Language:
English
