Talk:Summoning/@comment-25712820-20180814202914/@comment-5382421-20180814210558

it means spending a ton of irl money on the game.

I forget where the terms were first used, but people who spend little to no money on games like this, and stay free to play, are called "minnows" or some other small fish, people who spend maybe $20 to $40 or something reasonable like that every once in a while are "dolphins", and people who drop hundreds, sometimes thousands of dollars on these games in pursuit of what they want are called "whales", so whenever someone says they're "whaling" for something in the game, it means that's the thing they care about enough to actually go and spend a ton of money to try and get it.