About this site
Solid Theory publishes one thing: a five-step course for readers in Australia who are new to free-to-play PC games. This page explains who publishes it, how it was put together and what to be sceptical about.
Who publishes it
Solid Theory is published by ISWORK s.r.o., a company registered in the Czech Republic.
ISWORK s.r.o.Na Kozačce 1103/5, Vinohrady, 120 00 Praha 2, Czech Republic
Company registration: 24663158
VAT number: CZ24663158
info@solidtheory.online
Material on the site is written by the ISWORK s.r.o. editorial team. There are no individual bylines, because the work is produced collectively and a name on a page would suggest an expert endorsement that is not being offered. Everything here is general guidance, not professional advice.
How the course was structured
The five steps follow the order in which the questions actually arise for someone starting out, rather than the order in which they are easiest to write about. Cost comes first because it shapes every later decision. Hardware comes second because it can end the exercise entirely. Accounts come third, since that is the first irreversible thing you do. Classification and spending come fourth, while there is still time to decide. Settings and habits come last, because they only make sense once something is running.
Each step was written to stand up on its own but to assume the one before it. Each ends in a checklist of actions with a clear finishing point, because a step that ends in "think about it" is a step nobody completes.
The reading column is narrow, the typeface is a plain system serif, and there is nothing that moves. That is deliberate. A workbook should be quiet.
What each step relies on
| Step | What it draws on |
|---|---|
| Step 1 | General description of free-to-play business models, written as general guidance; the vendor's own description for the named example; the ACCC for the law on how products may be described. |
| Step 2 | The structure of published system requirements and the information your own computer reports about itself; the Australian Cyber Security Centre for general software guidance. |
| Step 3 | The Australian Cyber Security Centre on passphrases and multi-factor authentication; Scamwatch on scam approaches; the OAIC on privacy regulation. |
| Step 4 | The Australian Classification Board for classification; the ACCC for consumer guarantees; the eSafety Commissioner for family guidance. |
| Step 5 | The eSafety Commissioner for reporting serious online abuse; the ACSC for updates; the OAIC for privacy complaints. |
Those bodies are linked from the pages where they are relevant and described only for what they are. None of them has any involvement in this site.
How claims are handled
Three rules apply throughout. A claim about Australian law, classification or a government process links to the body responsible for it. A claim about a particular game comes from that vendor's own published description and nowhere else — where the vendor does not state something, the course says so instead of filling the gap. Everything else is written as general guidance, in terms that make clear it is a way of approaching a decision rather than a finding about your situation.
You will not find test results, benchmarks, rankings or scores here, because none were produced. You will not find reader quotes or experiences, because none were collected. The household that appears at the end of each step is an invented illustration, described as such on every page it appears.
The commercial relationship, stated plainly
This site is funded by affiliate commission. Links to the game named in Steps 1, 3 and 4 are paid affiliate links: if you follow one and register an account, ISWORK s.r.o. may be paid a commission by the affiliate network that operates the link. You pay nothing extra, and there is no payment of any kind to read this site.
That game is the course's worked example because of the commercial relationship. It would be dishonest to present the choice as editorial. What the commission does not do is change the content: the sign-up routine in Step 3 is the one that would be written for any account, and Step 4 says plainly where the vendor's description is silent rather than inventing detail that would make the game sound better.
The clearest test is the one we would apply ourselves. Remove every paid link and the five steps still work from beginning to end, because none of the advice depends on using one. The full arrangement is set out on the Affiliate Disclosure page.
Solid Theory is not an official source for any game, is not an authorised seller or partner of any publisher, and has not been endorsed by any of them.
How often it is reviewed
The course is reviewed twice a year, and sooner if one of the linked sources changes in a way that affects what a step says. A review covers three things: whether every external link still reaches the page it was meant to, whether the described processes still match what a reader would meet, and whether anything has crept in that reads as a recommendation rather than as guidance.
The date of the most recent review appears in the footer of every page. The effective date on each legal page is updated separately, whenever that page itself changes.
What this site does not do
It collects nothing. There is no form, no account, no newsletter and no progress tracking, and the checklists do not remember what you have ticked. It sets no cookies and uses no analytics, no advertising tags and no web fonts, so the pages make no requests to any other server. The Privacy Policy and the Cookie Policy describe that in detail.
If you want to raise something, the Contact page has the one address we use.