What Does This Mean?
An account belonging to a player who spends extremely large amounts of money in a free-to-play game, far above the typical player.
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REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE
"The leaderboard's basically owned by three whale accounts at this point."
LORE & ORIGIN
Borrowed from casino industry slang for high-rolling gamblers, adopted directly into free-to-play and gacha game economies.
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