Man, this is cool of Sony – releasing 60 Terabytes of game data to game researchers so they can investigate play patterns inside a modern MMO. If this sort of thing excites you, you may have the right frame of mind to be an MMO designer.

Hopefully the researchers will find some good stuff, and we’ll get to talk about some of their findings here. Also hopefully,other games follow suit, so we can detect trends between MMOs, and identify what is universal vs. differing from online world to online world.

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