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1 online resource (ix, 228 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction : To cheat or not to cheat : is that even the question? -- pt. 1. A cultural history of cheating in games. -- Creating the market : Easter eggs and secret agents -- Guidance goes independent : the rise of the strategy guide publishers -- Genies, sharks and chips : the technological side to cheating -- pt. 2. Game players. -- Gaining advantage : how videogame players define and negotiate cheating -- The cheaters -- Busting punks and policing players : the anti-cheating industry -- A mage's chronicle : cheating and life in Vana'diel -- pt. 3. Capital and game ethics. -- Capitalizing on paratexts : gameplay, ethics, and everyday life |
| Summary |
"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 |
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GAME STUDIES/General |
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GAME STUDIES/Online Games |
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SOCIAL SCIENCES/Media Studies |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-220) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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Print version record |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
Cheating at video games.
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Video games industry -- Corrupt practices
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Video games -- Moral and ethical aspects
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GAMES -- Video & Electronic.
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Cheating at video games
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Video games -- Moral and ethical aspects
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Computerspellen.
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Ethische aspecten.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780262270748 |
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0262270749 |
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9781429479660 |
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1429479663 |
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1282098802 |
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9781282098800 |
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9786612098802 |
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6612098805 |
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