Players and Their Pets: Gaming Communities from Beta to Sunset

by Mia Consalvo and Jason Begy

Book Overview

In the world of massively multiplayer online games (MMOGs), Faunasphere was but a blip on the screen in its short public life from 2009 to 2011. Its devoted players, many of them middle-aged women, entered a world that did not build on common fantasy or science-fiction tropes. There was no evil to defeat or realms to conquer, only friendly animals to care for and pollution to fight.

In Players and Their Pets, Mia Consalvo and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816689830
• ISBN13: 9780816689835
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.3"