Understanding Counterplay in Video Games operational excellence and autoimmunity

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Understanding Counterplay in Video Games operational excellence and autoimmunityThis book offers insight into one of the most problematic and universal issues within multiplayer videogames: antisocial and oppositional play forms such as cheating, player harassment, the use of exploits, illicit game modifications, and system hacking, known collectively as counterplay. Using ethnographic research, Alan Meades not only to gives voice to counterplayers, but reframes counterplay as a complex practice with contradictory motivations