EverQuest II - Behavior Research

Complete server logs handed over in the name of science.

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 took part in the game, which was followed up with demographic surveys of the users. All told, it makes for a massive data set with distinct challenges but plenty of opportunities.