About Pure Premise

Pure Premise publishes one thing: a five-step workbook for adults in Australia who are starting with PC games. This page explains who stands behind it, how it was put together, and how it is funded.

Who publishes this

Pure Premise is published by IGOA s.r.o., a company registered in the Czech Republic.

Writing is credited to the IGOA s.r.o. editorial team rather than to individuals. There is no author to follow, no instructor and no staff page, because nothing on this site depends on who a particular person is. The steps describe procedures anyone can carry out and check, and they should stand or fall on whether they are correct.

How the course was structured

The course was built backwards from the mistakes that cost beginners the most time. We listed what a person starting a first PC game has to decide, put those decisions in the order they actually arise, and then grouped them into five steps small enough to read in one sitting.

That ordering is why the steps run as they do. Understanding what an account is comes before checking hardware, because the account survives a change of computer and the hardware decision does not. Hardware comes before the legal reading, because there is no point reading a licence for software that will not run. The legal reading comes before registration, because that is the last moment at which not registering is still easy. Registration comes before the first session, and spending comes last, because spending is the decision people most regret making early.

Each step ends in a checklist for the same reason: a step you have read is not a step you have done. The checklists are static printed lists, not interactive forms, and nothing about them is recorded.

What sources each step relies on

We rely on primary sources and link to them, rather than restating what they say.

• Step 1 relies on how online services generally work, described in general terms rather than from any one vendor, plus Scamwatch material on fraudulent sign-up pages: scamwatch.gov.au.
• Step 2 relies on the system information tools built into Windows, macOS and Linux, and on each vendor's own published requirements, which we tell you to read on the day rather than reproducing. General consumer information about internet services comes from the ACCC: accc.gov.au.
• Step 3 relies on the Australian Classification Board for classifications and consumer advice, classification.gov.au; on the ACCC for the consumer guarantees; and on the OAIC for privacy rights, oaic.gov.au.
• Step 4 relies on Australian Cyber Security Centre guidance for passphrases, two-factor authentication and safe software practice, cyber.gov.au, and again on Scamwatch for the shape of fraudulent messages.
• Step 5 relies on eSafety Commissioner material for reporting online abuse, esafety.gov.au, on the Classification Board for content involving randomised purchases, and otherwise on settings that exist across the category.

Where a fact belongs to a vendor — system requirements, prices, what an account can do — we do not restate it. Those details change without notice, and a stale figure on a page like this one is worse than no figure at all. The course tells you where to look instead.

What we will not publish

We do not publish reviews, scores, rankings or benchmarks, and we do not run tests. We do not publish statistics we have not sourced, and we do not have awards, seals or certifications. There are no reader submissions, testimonials or quotes anywhere on this site, and the household used as a worked example through the five steps is explicitly an invention, used to make an abstract decision concrete.

We do not tell readers they are at risk, that their device has a problem, or that they must act today. Nothing here scans your computer, and nothing here can see anything about it.

How often this is reviewed

Every step is reviewed at least twice a year. A review is brought forward when an Australian regulator changes guidance we link to, when a linked page moves or closes, or when a reader writes to tell us something is wrong. The date of the most recent review appears in the footer of every page on the site, and it is the real date.

If you find an error, write to us. Corrections are made to the page itself, and the review date is updated when they are.

How this site is funded, stated plainly

This site earns money from affiliate links. Enlisted, the game used as a worked example in the course, is a product IGOA s.r.o. has a commercial relationship with: when a reader registers through one of the links on this site, the affiliate network that operates the link pays IGOA s.r.o. a commission. That is a real financial interest and you should weigh it when you read.

Two things limit what that interest can do. The course was written to be complete without any product in it — remove every Enlisted link and all five steps and five checklists still work — and the commission does not decide what any step says. What decides the content is whether a procedure is correct, whether it applies across desktop PC games generally, and whether a reader with no prior knowledge can actually carry it out.

We are not Enlisted's publisher, partner, reseller or authorised source, and nothing here is endorsed by them. The full explanation, including where in the course the links appear, is on the Affiliate Disclosure page.

What this site collects about you

Nothing beyond ordinary server access logs. There are no forms, no accounts, no newsletter, no analytics, no advertising tags, no cookies and no browser storage, and the site loads nothing from any other server. The Privacy Policy and the Cookie Policy set that out in detail, including what the logs contain and how long they are kept.