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. Consalvo provides a cultural history of cheating
in videogames, looking at how the packaging and selling of such
cheat-enablers as cheat books, GameSharks, and mod chips created a
cheat industry. She investigates how players themselves define
cheating and how their playing choices can be understood, with
particular attention to online cheating. Finally, she examines the
growth of the peripheral game industries that produce information
about games rather than actual games. Digital games are spaces for
play and experimentation; the way we use and think about digital
games, Consalvo argues, is crucially important and reflects ethical
choices in gameplay and elsewhere.
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