About this site and how the course is written
PureScale Online publishes one thing: a five-step workbook for people in Australia who are new to online PC games. This page explains who publishes it, how it was put together and what pays for it.
Who publishes it
PureScale Online is published by Multi.kuk.shop s.r.o., a company registered in the Czech Republic.
Multi.kuk.shop s.r.o.Nýdecká 446, Letňany, 199 00 Praha 9, Czech Republic
Company registration: 29790824
info@purescale.online
The material is written by the Multi.kuk.shop s.r.o. editorial team. We do not publish bylines, author biographies or photographs, because the course is a single piece of work rather than a collection of individual opinions, and attributing it to invented personalities would tell you nothing true.
How the course was structured
The five steps were drafted as one document, in order, around a single constraint: a reader who knows nothing should be able to start at the top and never meet an unexplained term. Everything that failed that constraint was either explained earlier or cut.
The order of the steps follows the order of the decisions a household actually makes, not the order that would be most convenient for a site that wanted you to sign up. Hardware comes second, before content and before accounts, because the hardware step is the one most likely to rule a game out. A site optimising for sign-ups would put it last.
Each step ends in a checklist because a checklist is testable. If a paragraph does not produce a line on a checklist, it is usually a paragraph that exists to fill a page, and we removed those during editing. The checklists are also gathered on one printable page so that the course is usable away from the screen.
What each step relies on
| Step | What it relies on |
|---|---|
| Step 1 — free to play | General description of business models common across the category, written as guidance. No figures are given, because we have measured none. |
| Step 2 — hardware | Panels and settings screens that ship with Windows, macOS and Linux, named generically. Vendors' own published requirements lists. No benchmarks of our own. |
| Step 3 — ratings and spending | The Australian Classification Board at classification.gov.au for classification; the ACCC at accc.gov.au for consumer rights; the eSafety Commissioner at esafety.gov.au for family guidance. |
| Step 4 — accounts | The Australian Cyber Security Centre at cyber.gov.au for passphrases and multi-factor authentication; Scamwatch at scamwatch.gov.au for scam reporting. |
| Step 5 — living with it | The eSafety Commissioner for online safety complaints; the OAIC at oaic.gov.au for privacy rights; the ACCC for refunds and consumer guarantees. |
Where a step makes a general factual claim, it either links the Australian body that publishes the material or is written as guidance rather than as fact. Where we would have to guess, we say that the information is not published rather than filling the gap.
What we say about products, and why
One product is named in the course: World of Tanks. Everything we state about it comes from what its affiliate programme publishes to us — that it is an online multiplayer tank action game of team battles between players, with graphics produced by the Core engine, destructible scenery, thirty maps remade in high definition and a new soundtrack, running on desktop computers under Windows, macOS and Linux, and that the action we are paid for is a reader creating and activating an account.
Beyond that, we say nothing. We do not describe its price, its in-game purchases, its Australian classification, its security settings or its chat tools, because none of that has been published to us and inventing it would be worse than useless to you. Each step instead shows you how to find those things on the vendor's own pages.
We have not run tests, awarded scores, compared products against one another or collected opinions from players. There are no reviews on this site and no ratings, and that is a deliberate limit rather than an omission.
The commercial relationship, stated plainly
The product named above is one we have a commercial relationship with. Multi.kuk.shop s.r.o. is paid a commission when a reader follows one of our affiliate links and creates and activates an account. That is the only way this site earns anything.
It would be dishonest to pretend that this has no effect at all. What it affects is which product is available to us as an example: we use the one we have a relationship with, rather than one we do not. What it does not affect is the content of the five steps. The steps are written so that they work for any game in the category, the checklists name no product, and nothing in the course is withheld from a reader who never clicks a link. A reader can complete every step, reach the end, and decide against online gaming entirely — Step 5 says so explicitly.
The full explanation, including where in the course the links appear, is on the Affiliate Disclosure page.
How often it is reviewed
The whole course is reviewed on a fixed schedule, and additionally whenever we become aware of a change in the Australian material it cites — a change at the Classification Board, the ACCC, the eSafety Commissioner, the ACSC or the OAIC. The date of the most recent review appears in the footer of every page, and it changes only when the content has actually been read through again, not when an unrelated file is edited.
Corrections are welcome. If something here is wrong, out of date or unclear, write to info@purescale.online and say which page and which sentence. We read everything sent to that address.
What this site is not
It is not the official site of any game, not affiliated with any publisher, and not endorsed or sponsored by one. It is not a news outlet and publishes no reporting. It is not accredited training: there is no registration, no certificate, no record of completion and no account, because the site collects nothing from readers at all. It is not technical support, and it cannot recover anybody's account.
It also runs no analytics, sets no cookies and loads nothing from any other server. The Privacy Policy and the Cookie Policy set that out in detail, and both are written to match what the pages actually do.