About Macrofacet
Macrofacet is a single publication with a single purpose: a five-step beginner's course, written for readers in Australia, about collection role-playing games played on a desktop computer. It is not a games magazine, a review site, a news outlet or a personal blog. It has no sections other than the course, and no plans for any.
Who publishes it
Macrofacet is published by:
ABAJ CZ s.r.o.
Čajkovského 1684/29, Žižkov, 130 00 Praha 3, Czech Republic
Company registration: 25687492
Email: info@macrofacet.online
Content is written and maintained by the ABAJ CZ s.r.o. editorial team. No individual is credited as an author, because nothing on this site is a personal account, an experience or an opinion piece. There are no staff pages, no photographs of people and no job titles, for the same reason: none of that would tell you anything useful about whether the course is accurate.
How the course is structured
The five steps were ordered by working backwards from the decisions a beginner actually has to make, and putting each one after the information needed to make it.
Step 1 establishes vocabulary, because every later step uses it. Step 2 is a hardware check, which comes before anything is chosen because the answer can rule options out. Step 3 holds the two decisions that are hard to reverse once a game is installed: whether the content and classification suit the household, and what the spending position is. Step 4 is the installation itself, deliberately placed after both of those. Step 5 covers the months afterwards, which is where most of what goes wrong for beginners actually happens.
Each step ends in a checklist of items that can be answered with a fact rather than an opinion. That is a deliberate constraint: a checklist of judgements gets postponed, and a checklist of lookups gets finished.
What each step relies on
The course draws on three kinds of source, and keeps them separate.
Australian public bodies. Step 3 relies on the Australian Classification Board for classification and consumer advice, and on the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission for consumer law. Steps 2, 4 and 5 rely on the Australian Cyber Security Centre for account and software guidance, and on Scamwatch for current scam patterns. Steps 3 and 5 rely on the eSafety Commissioner for online safety, and Step 5 on the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner for privacy rights. Where one of those bodies is the authority on a point, the course links to it rather than paraphrasing it, which is why Step 3 declines to restate classification definitions in its own words.
The vendor's own published material. Everything the course states about the one product it names comes from the vendor's published description and from what the affiliate network states about the offer. Where the vendor does not publish something — system requirements, file size, the odds on any randomised reward — the course says the vendor does not state it, rather than filling the gap.
General facts a reader can verify. The procedure in Step 2 for finding your processor, memory, graphics and free space uses screens built into Windows, macOS and Linux. You can check every line of it on your own machine, which is the best kind of source there is.
The course contains no test results, no benchmarks, no statistics of our own, no ratings and no awards, because we have run no tests and hold no awards. It contains no testimonials or reader quotes. The household that appears in the worked examples is an invented illustration, described as such on every page it appears on; it is not a real family, nobody in it is named, and it reports no results from any product.
The commercial relationship, stated plainly
One product is named in this course: Raid: Shadow Legends. Links to it are paid affiliate links. The publisher of this site is paid a commission by the affiliate network that operates the link when a reader follows one, registers on the vendor's landing page, installs the game and launches the tutorial. That is a commercial relationship with the product the course names, and you should read the course knowing it exists.
What the commission does not do is decide what the steps say. The course's structure, its checklists, its sources and its conclusions were settled on the basis of what a beginner needs in order to make a decision, and the whole of it works identically if the reader chooses a different game or no game at all. The course states no opinion about the quality of the product it names, because stating one while being paid would be worth nothing to you.
The full explanation, including where in the course the links appear and what we do and do not receive, is on the Affiliate Disclosure page.
How often it is reviewed
The course is reviewed in full at least twice a year, and sooner if an Australian source it links to changes materially — a classification page moving, a regulator reorganising its guidance, a link breaking. Changes to the legal pages carry their own effective date. The date of the most recent review of the course content appears in the footer of every page.
If you find something out of date or wrong, telling us is genuinely useful. The contact address is below and on the Contact page; there is no form, because the site collects nothing.
What this site does not do
It does not collect anything about you. There is no sign-up, no newsletter, no account, no progress tracking and no quiz. The checklists do not remember what you have ticked, because that would require storing something in your browser and we store nothing. There are no cookies, no analytics, no advertising tags, no web fonts and no third-party scripts; the site makes no request to any other server. The Privacy Policy and the Cookie Policy set this out in detail and describe the one thing that does happen, which is the ordinary access log kept by the hosting provider.
It is also not affiliated with any game vendor. Macrofacet is not an official site, not an authorised source, not a partner and not a reseller. No vendor has reviewed, approved or endorsed anything here.