Game jargon: When is a group not a group?  When is a group not a
group? When it’s a party, fellowship, fleet, team, gang, etc.
New MMOs often flood players with a tsunami of jargon, using new
words for old, familiar concepts as well as thinking up terms
for new gameplay or lore which is specific to that game. It
isn’t just the humble group that gets the makeover treatment,
games use different terms to describe guilds (kinship, corp,
legion, supergroup, society, etc), raids (warbands) and even
different types of spell (mez, sleep, incapacitate, blind).  It
can feel overwhelming when you jump into a new game. As well as
the official jargon, players have probably adopted their own
abbreviations and nicknames for different locations, instances,
bosses, quests, items and each other. A general chat channel
might as well be in a foreign language for the amount of sense
it makes to a newbie – or at least an unfamiliar dialect.
Learning the local slang is an important part of learning a new
MMO and joining that game’