About this site

Hollow Tier is a five-step workbook for readers in Australia who are opening their first downloadable online PC game. It is published by GO-SERVIS group s.r.o. It is not an official, authorised or partner site for any game, publisher or platform.

How the course was structured

The course follows the order in which the decisions actually arrive, rather than the order a product page presents them. Somebody opening a downloadable online game for the first time meets, in sequence: a vocabulary problem, a hardware question, a pile of documents, an installation, and then an open-ended relationship with a publisher that involves money. Those are the five steps, in that order, and each one closes with a checklist because each one ends in things that are either done or not done.

Each step was written to a fixed shape: an explanation of what the thing is, the general rule that applies across the category, the thing to do about it, and a list. Steps are kept to a length that can be read in one sitting without becoming a reference manual, and anything that would need to be rewritten every time a product changed was deliberately left out and replaced with a pointer to the source.

What each step relies on

Three kinds of source, and no others.

Australian government publications. Where a step touches classification, online safety, privacy, consumer rights or scams, it points to the body responsible: the Australian Classification Board for the classification of games, the eSafety Commissioner for online safety, the OAIC for the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) and the Australian Privacy Principles, the ACCC for the Australian Consumer Law, Scamwatch for scam reporting, and the Australian Cyber Security Centre for device and account security. Those links are there so you can read the primary material instead of our summary of it.

Vendor documentation. Anything specific to a particular product — system requirements, prices, refund policies, what a game contains — belongs to that product's own publisher. This course does not reproduce those figures, because a figure copied today becomes wrong quietly and without warning. Where a step needs one, it tells you to go and read it at the source.

General technical practice. How to find your own system information, how installers behave, what two-factor authentication does, why a unique password matters: these hold across the whole category and are stated as general guidance, not as claims about any one product.

Where a fact about a named product is not available from its vendor, the course says the vendor does not state it, rather than filling the gap. There are no benchmarks, test results, scores, rankings or awards on this site, because none have been carried out, and inventing them would be both dishonest and against the law that governs how businesses describe things in Australia.

How often it is reviewed

The pages are reviewed as a complete set rather than one at a time, so that the five steps stay consistent with each other. The date of the most recent review is printed in the footer of every page, including this one, and it is updated whenever the content is revised rather than on a schedule that would make it decorative. Links to Australian government resources are checked at each review. The legal pages carry their own effective dates, which are updated when those pages change.

The commercial relationship, stated plainly

This site earns money from affiliate links. One product is named in the course — World of Warships — and it is named because the publisher of this site has a commercial relationship with the affiliate network that promotes it. If you follow one of those links and go on to create and activate an account, the publisher is paid a commission by that network. You pay nothing extra.

That is the honest answer to "why is this product here and not another one", and it is the reason the course is careful about what it says concerning it. What the commission does not do is decide what the course teaches: the five steps, their order, the checklists and the advice in them would be identical with the links removed, and the whole course can be worked through without following any of them. The Affiliate Disclosure sets this out at length, including which pages carry links.

What this site does not do

It collects nothing. There is no form, no newsletter, no account, no progress tracking and no quiz anywhere on Hollow Tier. It sets no cookies and uses no browser storage, so the checklists cannot remember what you ticked. It loads no fonts, scripts, analytics or widgets from any other server, which means the site makes no external requests at all; what the Privacy Policy and the Cookie Policy say about this is a description of the code, not an aspiration.

It also does not offer certificates, registrations, completion badges or accreditation, and it is not training in any formal sense. It is a workbook. You read it, you do the things, and that is all there is to it.

Corrections

If something here is wrong, write to info@hollowtier.online and say which page and which sentence. Corrections are made on the page itself, and the review date in the footer is updated when they are. The Terms and Conditions explain the limits of what this site is — in particular that it is general information and not professional, legal or security advice.