Editing EverQuest II (section)

===Scholarly research===
''EverQuest II'' has been used by academics to study a variety of phenomena; for example, that virtual economic behavior in ''EverQuest II'' follows real-world patterns in terms of production, consumption and money supply;<ref>Castronova, E, Williams D, Shen C, Ratan R, Xiong L, Huang Y, Keegan B. 2009. As real as real? Macroeconomic behavior in a large-scale virtual world New Media & Society. 11:685-707.</ref> and observations that less than one percent (0.43%) of all the players are Platinum Farmers and more than three quarters (77.66%) of all Platinum Farmers are Chinese.<ref>Muhammad Aurangzeb Ahmad, Brain Keegan, Jaideep Srivastava, Dmitri Williams, Noshir Contractor, “Mining for Gold Farmers: Automatic Detection of Deviant Players in MMOGS” Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE Social Computing (SocialCom-09). Symposium on Social Intelligence and Networking (SIN-09). Vancouver, Canada, August 29–31, 2009.</ref>