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18
Why Gamers cheat
Posted In: Entertainment by Andy at 9:49 am
Forbes has an article on why gamers cheat, breaking down the reasons into 4 buckets:
There are four major reasons why players cheat in a game: they’re stuck, they want to play God, they are bored with the game, or they want to be a jerk.
It goes into detail on each of these and also explains why cheating is actually good for you.
The author is Mia Consalvo an associate professor in the School of Telecommunications at Ohio University. Her current research examines women’s game play, the economics of the videogame industry and pedagogical uses of games. She has just written the book Cheating: Gaining Advantage in Videogames , to be released by MIT Press in 2007.
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