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ArsTechnica.com is reporting that 60 Terabytes of Raw Server Logs from the EverQuest II universe captured over the last 4 years have been provided to a collaborative group of academic researchers — including psychologists to epidemiologists — at a number of institutions. Dmitri Williams introduced the project and described how researchers have been approaching various game developers over the years. He paraphrased the conversation with Sony as: “What do you collect?” “Well, everything—what do you want?” “Can we have it all?” “Sure.” The end result is a log that includes four years of data for over 400,000 players that...