“Below-cost pricing” means offering a consumer-facing product or service at a price lower than the provider’s per-user cost of supplying that product or service over the relevant billing period.

For this debate, “community-driven development” of an esports game is when independent players, modders, or organizers play the main practical role in creating and shaping a game or its competitive scene, rather than the publisher centrally and continually directing those processes.

Community-driven development was most prominent in the 1990s and 2000s, but declined in relative prominence in the late 2000s onward and became much less central in the 2010s.

A “gated community” is a residential area with roads that have gates to control the movement of traffic and people into and out of the area.

For this debate, “utilitarianism” is the view that an action is right if and only if it maximizes the total well-being of all those affected by it.