About this site

Plain Pulse publishes one thing: a five-step written course for people in Australia who are new to online multiplayer games on a desktop computer.

Who publishes it

The course is written and maintained by the EAS company s.r.o. editorial team. There are no individual bylines on this site, because the material is maintained collectively and corrected as a whole rather than attributed to one person.

Editorial method

How the course was structured

The five steps follow the order in which decisions actually arise for someone approaching this category for the first time: understand the business model, check the hardware, read the paperwork, create the account, then live with the result. Each step was written to stand alone if read out of order, and to end in a checklist that can be worked through away from the screen.

Every claim was tested against one question before it was included: could a reader check this themselves? Items that failed that test were cut rather than softened. That is why the course contains no benchmark figures, no comparative scoring and no performance claims about any product.

What each step relies on

• Step 1 describes commercial structures that are common across the category and observable in any game's own store. Where a specific game differs, the step says to check that game's own material.
• Step 2 relies on the documented behaviour of Windows, macOS and Linux, and tells you to read the publisher's own requirements page on the day you install, because it is the only current source.
• Step 3 points to the Australian Classification Board for classification decisions and to the ACCC for consumer guarantees under the Australian Consumer Law, and asks you to read their own pages rather than our summary.
• Step 4 follows the published account-security guidance of the Australian Cyber Security Centre and points to Scamwatch for current impersonation scams.
• Step 5 points to the eSafety Commissioner for online abuse and to the OAIC for privacy questions, and otherwise sets out budgeting and review habits as general guidance.

How often it is reviewed

The whole course is read through and corrected at least twice a year, and sooner if a reader writes in about something that has gone out of date. The review date appears in the footer of every page and is updated only when a review has actually happened, not on every edit.

If you find something wrong, write to us. Corrections are made to the page rather than announced, except where the change affects the meaning of a checklist item, in which case the step says what changed.

The commercial relationship, stated plainly

World of Tanks, the game used as the single concrete example throughout the course, is a product this publisher has a commercial relationship with. The links to it on this site are paid affiliate links: if you follow one and create and activate an account, the affiliate network that operates the link pays EAS company s.r.o. a commission. You pay nothing additional.

That relationship is the reason the example exists and the reason the site can be published without charging anyone. It does not decide what the steps say. The checklists ask the same questions of that game as of any other, several of them are questions a publisher would rather you did not ask, and the course states at multiple points that it can be completed without following the link at all.

The full arrangement is set out on the Affiliate Disclosure page.

What this site is not

It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or an official source for any game publisher. It is not a news outlet, and it carries no reporting. It is not a personal blog, and it contains no one's experiences. It is not accredited training: there is no enrolment, no assessment and no certificate, and nothing here is professional, financial or legal advice.

It is also not a service that collects anything about you. There is no sign-up, no email list, no analytics, no cookies and no third-party scripts of any kind. The Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy describe that in detail.

Contact

Questions, corrections and privacy requests all go to info@plainpulse.online. The Contact page explains what to expect.