About this site, and how the course is written

Quiet Concept publishes one thing: a five-step beginner's course on starting a free-to-play PC game, written for readers in Australia. This page explains who publishes it, how it was put together, and what commercial relationship sits behind some of its links.

Who publishes it

Quiet Concept is published by MUSICAL TECHNOLOGY GANG s.r.o., a company registered in the Czech Republic.

Ways to reach us, including by post, are on the Contact page.

Where the course carries authorship, it is the MUSICAL TECHNOLOGY GANG s.r.o. editorial team. We do not publish individual names, photographs or titles, and nothing on this site is presented as the work or opinion of a named person. There are no instructors, no profiles and no biographies, because none of that would tell you anything about whether the material is sound.

How the course was structured

The five steps were planned as a single sequence rather than as separate articles that happened to be numbered. Each step introduces its own vocabulary, defines terms the first time they appear, and assumes only what the previous steps established. That constraint shaped the order: what a free-to-play game is, then whether your machine can run one, then the account, then money and classification, then play itself.

Each step ends in a checklist because reading alone rarely changes what someone does. The checklists are deliberately dull and specific — write this down, look that up, agree this figure out loud — and they are collected on the All checklists page so they can be printed and used away from the screen.

The course does not try to be comprehensive. It covers the questions that most often stop a beginner, and it stops. Where a subject needs an expert — classification decisions, online safety, consumer rights, privacy law — the course links to the Australian body responsible rather than paraphrasing it badly.

What each step relies on

Three kinds of source, and we try to keep them visibly separate.

Vendor material. Anything the course says about a specific product comes from what that product's vendor publishes about it. Where a vendor does not state something — a price, a population figure, how long progression takes — the course says it is unstated rather than guessing. Step 2 in particular tells you to read a requirements list on the vendor's own current page rather than trusting any copy of it, including ours.

Australian public bodies. Step 2 and Step 5 point to the Australian Cyber Security Centre for guidance on where software should come from and on account security. Step 3 and Step 5 point to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner on privacy, and to Scamwatch on fraudulent messages. Step 4 and Step 5 point to the eSafety Commissioner on online safety and to the ACCC on Australian consumer law. Step 4 points to the Australian Classification Board for classification decisions. In every case we describe what the body is and send you to it; we do not restate its advice as though it were ours.

General guidance. The rest is ordinary, non-specific advice of the kind a patient friend would give, and it is written to read that way rather than as a finding. Where the course cannot support a claim with a source, it either phrases it as guidance or leaves it out. You will not find statistics, test results, benchmarks or survey figures here, because we have not conducted any.

How often it is reviewed

The course is reviewed as a whole rather than page by page, and the date of the most recent review appears in the footer of every page. A review means re-reading each step against the vendor material and the linked Australian sources, checking that every link still resolves, and correcting anything that has changed.

Material about classification, consumer law and online safety is written to point at the responsible body rather than to restate a current position, specifically so that it ages slowly. If you find something out of date or simply wrong, write to us and say so; corrections are the most useful mail we get.

The commercial relationship, stated plainly

Some links in this course are paid affiliate links. If you follow one and create an account, MUSICAL TECHNOLOGY GANG s.r.o. is paid a commission by the affiliate network that operates the link. You pay nothing additional, and nothing happens if you only read.

One product, Crossout, is the subject of those links, and it is also used as the course's worked example of a free-to-play PC game. Both things are true at once and we would rather you knew it. What that means in practice: the commission is why that particular title, rather than another, is the one named in Steps 2, 3 and 5. It is not why the course says what it says about it. Every statement about that product comes from its vendor's own description, including the restrictions — desktop Windows and Linux, with macOS not supported — which are the kind of fact an advertisement would leave out.

What does decide the content: the sequence a beginner actually needs, and what the linked Australian bodies publish. The course works end to end without following a single paid link, every checklist is usable without one, and we would rather you completed the course and spent nothing than the reverse. The arrangement is set out in full on the Affiliate Disclosure page.

What this site is not

It is not an official site, a partner or an authorised source for any game or publisher. It is not a news outlet, and nothing here is reporting. It is not a personal blog and contains no one's experiences. It is not a download site; it hosts no software. It is not accredited training, there is nothing to sign up for, no record of your progress exists, and no certificate is issued or implied.

It also collects nothing. There are no forms, no accounts, no analytics, no cookies and no third-party scripts, which is why the Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy are mostly a list of things that do not happen. The only contact method is the email address above.