GM means Game master

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I found information that GM actually means “Game Master” not " Grand Master." I am a little confused about it. Please help.

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Was the place you heard that talking about Overwatch specifically?

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It’s called context, sweetie
GM can mean both
GM in the context of Blizzard games means Grandmaster

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Game master is used as GM when you play mostly role play games.
They control game, what happend in it etc.

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Game Masters are Blizzard employees that handle in-game issues (answer tickets and things). Grand Master is the rank that players achieve by climbing to 4000 SR.

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What they pay them?
Always had an impression those become slaves for free.

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Grand Master is the official terminology for Overwatch. Other games? Not sure.

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Not sure. I remember reading it not to long ago. It just sparked in my mind that It’s worth mentioning for clarification.

My guess, maybe someone thought GM means “Game Master” and didn’t know it actually means “Grand Master.” Please help clarify.

Darn it. If I could only remember where I saw it…

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In Blizzard games, both have the same abbreviation.

And I think it’s actually ‘Game moderator’ instead of ‘game master’, but I can be wrong on this one (not that it really matters much either).

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It means both, in Overwatch GM means Grandmaster. In World of Warcraft GM means Game Master OR Guild Master. It depends entirely on the game itself.

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Ah… Thank you :blush:

I remember a little more now. I think the context used for “Game Master” may have been in context with maybe forum or tournament game planning. Adding the “Game Moderator” confused me a little more…

Help…:persevere:

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Game master doesn’t make sense
If not in-game where else would they be a master

Also would be no different from a Master

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Note to self: Don’t listen to MetalBeast. Causes more confusion :persevere:

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ive been a GM before…but ive never been a GM

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Noooo! (Slaps hand on forehead) :persevere:

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GM is the acronym for both grand master and game master. Context matters to differenciate which one is being talked about as both are correct.

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They’re just synonyms and I think it differs from game to game which term is the official one. A game master/game moderator is an employee who watches in-game whether everything goes as it’s supposed to go. Like, if there are bugs or glitches being reported, he goes in-game to check them out. If someone’s hacking or griefing, they go in-game to deal with them and so on. They’re like the Forum mods, but then in the game itself.

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GM stands for “Genetically Modified”

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Aren’t those “referees”? Why change it to Game master or Game moderator.

Seems much simpler to me to call them referees to monitor esports like field referees. I mean a sport is a sport right?

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Game Masters pretty much never comes into a discussion in OW so everyone uses GM as reference to Grand Masters.