Trading & Marketplace Terms
- RMT (Real-Money Trading)
- Exchanging real money for in-game currency, items, accounts or services. Prohibited by most publishers' terms of service, regardless of vendor.
- Escrow
- A marketplace holding your payment until you confirm an order was delivered, rather than releasing funds to the seller immediately. See our safety guide for why this matters.
- Marketplace vs. Direct Seller
- A marketplace connects independent sellers to buyers; a direct seller fulfills every order themselves as one company. Full comparison in Direct Sellers vs. Marketplaces.
- Chargeback
- Reversing a payment through your bank or card issuer after a purchase goes wrong. Covered in Refunds & Disputes.
- Account Reclaim
- When a seller uses an account's original recovery email to take it back after selling it. See Buying Accounts vs. Buying Gold.
Currency & Economy Terms
- Top-Up
- Buying a game's premium currency at a discount through a third-party seller, delivered via the game's own official purchase system. See Best Gacha Top-Up Deals.
- Player-Driven Market
- An in-game economy where prices are set by real player supply and demand rather than fixed vendor rates. Covered in our sandbox economy guide.
- Full-Loot PvP
- A death penalty where a defeated player drops some or all of their carried items and currency for the killer. Relevant to EVE Online and Albion Online specifically.
- Wipe
- A full server reset of player progress, common in Rust and DayZ. See Best Sellers for Survival & Extraction Games.
Boosting Terms
- Boosting
- Paying a skilled player to complete difficult in-game content on your own account. Full breakdown in When Does Boosting Make Sense?
- Per-Clear Pricing
- Boosting priced per individual clear of rotating challenge content, common in gacha games like Honkai: Star Rail and Zenless Zone Zero.
- Per-Service Pricing
- Boosting priced per discrete task rather than a raid clear, common in survival and sandbox games like EVE Online and Escape from Tarkov.
Genre-Specific Terms
- Gacha
- A monetization system where premium currency is spent on randomized character or item pulls. See our Genshin Impact and related game pages.
- Extraction Shooter
- A genre where players enter a map to loot, then must successfully exit ("extract") to keep what they found, as seen in Escape from Tarkov.
- Modded Server
- A community-run game server with custom rules or economies, common in DayZ where no official currency exists.
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