Ledger — front matter.

About this course and the company that publishes it

Softprism Online is a small publication with one purpose: a five-step course for readers in Australia who are new to desktop collection role-playing games and want the plain explanation before they decide anything. It has no other sections, no archive and no author profiles.

Who publishes it

The site is written by the editorial team at G-Wetroltrans s.r.o. There are no individual bylines, no staff pages and no photographs of anyone, because the work is a short reference text rather than journalism and attributing it to invented personalities would be a form of decoration we would rather avoid.

Editorial method

How the course was structured

The five steps follow the order in which the questions actually arrive for someone new to the category. First what the thing is, because every later question depends on it. Then whether the computer in the house can run it, because that is the cheapest way to end the enquiry early if the answer is no. Then the documents, because they are the part that binds and the part nobody reads. Then the installation, because by that point it is a short mechanical exercise. Then the habits that follow, which is where most of the real cost of a free game lives.

Each step ends in a checklist because a step that cannot be checked off is advice rather than instruction. Every checklist item is something a reader can verify alone, without buying anything and without an account on this site.

What each step relies on

Step 1

General description of a category of software, written in plain terms. Where Australian classification is mentioned, the source is the Australian Classification Board at classification.gov.au, linked rather than summarised.

Step 2

The documented features of Windows, macOS and common Linux distributions — the information screens and commands named are the ones those systems ship with. General advice on updates points to the Australian Cyber Security Centre at cyber.gov.au.

Step 3

The Australian Classification Board for classification and consumer advice; the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission at accc.gov.au for consumer guarantees under the Australian Consumer Law; the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner at oaic.gov.au for the Australian Privacy Principles; Scamwatch at scamwatch.gov.au for reported scam patterns.

Step 4

A general installation procedure that applies across desktop platforms. It is not a walkthrough of any product's screens, and it contains no figures for any product's download or install size.

Step 5

General consumer practice, plus the ACCC on consumer guarantees, the OAIC on access and correction, the eSafety Commissioner at esafety.gov.au for household guidance, and Scamwatch for reporting.

What the course does not contain

No product testing, because none is carried out here. No benchmarks, ratings, scores or rankings. No reader submissions, quotes or testimonials; the household that appears in each step is an invented illustration with no name, and it reports no results. No statistics, awards or trust marks. No figures for classification thresholds or legal age limits, because those belong to the bodies that publish them and are linked instead.

How often it is reviewed

The whole course is reviewed every six months, and sooner if a linked public source changes materially — for instance if a regulator reorganises its guidance or the classification scheme changes. The date of the last review appears in the footer of every page. Legal pages carry their own effective date and that date is updated whenever their text changes.

Corrections

If something here is wrong, write to info@softprism.online and say which page and which sentence. Factual corrections are made on the page itself rather than noted elsewhere, and the review date in the footer moves when they are.

The commercial relationship, stated plainly

Yes: there is one, and it concerns a product the course mentions.

Raid: Shadow Legends is named in Steps 1, 3 and 4 as a concrete example of the category. The links to it are paid affiliate links. G-Wetroltrans s.r.o. is paid a commission by the affiliate network that operates those links when a reader registers on the game's landing page and installs the game. That commission is the only income this site has, and it is what makes the course free to read.

What that arrangement does not do is decide the content. The five steps, the checklists and the sources were settled as a structure for the category, and they would read the same with the links removed. The course names one product because one concrete example makes an abstract category easier to understand, and it states only what the vendor's own programme states about that product — the registration and installation sequence, and the three desktop platforms. It makes no claim about quality, performance or value, because it has no basis for one.

We would rather say that bluntly than present the site as independent editorial. The full disclosure is on the funding page.

What this site is not

It is not the official site of any game, nor a partner, reseller, authorised distributor or endorsed source. It is not a news outlet. It is not a download page: no software is offered here. It is not a course you sign up for — there is no account, no certificate and no record of who has read what, because this site collects nothing. The privacy policy sets out exactly what that means, principle by principle.

How the site is built

Plain HTML and CSS, one small first-party script that opens the menu on narrow screens and sends the checklists page to the printer. No analytics, no advertising tags, no embedded fonts, no content delivery network. Your browser makes no request to any server other than the one serving this domain. That is a design choice about privacy, and it is also why the pages load quickly on a slow connection.

Questions go to the contact page.