How Prowave compares games

What qualifies for inclusion

A title enters the library when it meets four conditions at once. It is an online multiplayer game built around armoured vehicles, aircraft or warships. It is distributed as a download at no purchase price on at least one desktop platform. It is currently operating and accepting new accounts. And it is reachable from Australia without the publisher's own documentation saying otherwise.

Nothing about a commercial relationship appears in that list, in either direction. A title is not added because it pays, and a title is not excluded because it does not. Four of the five titles currently covered pay nothing at all. The one that does is identified as an advertiser on every page where its link appears, which is the only way a reader can weigh the coverage properly.

The library is deliberately small. Five titles can be reviewed properly on a fixed schedule by a publisher of this size. Twenty could not, and a twenty-title table that has not been checked since it was written is worse than no table, because it carries the appearance of currency without the substance.

The source hierarchy

Every factual cell on this site is traceable to one of four kinds of source, and they are not equal. In descending order of weight:

1. A public body's own publication. A classification decision from the Australian Classification Board, guidance from the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, advice from the Australian Cyber Security Centre. These are quoted by description and linked, never paraphrased into something stronger than they say.
2. The publisher's own current page. System requirements, platform support, store contents, account settings. This is the authority for anything about a specific game that can change, and it is linked rather than copied so the reader lands on the current version.
3. The publisher's own promotional material, attributed as such. Marketing descriptions are usable provided the sentence around them says whose description it is. They are never presented as measurements.
4. General observation about the genre. Statements that hold across this category of game rather than about one product, written as general guidance and labelled that way.

A claim that fits none of those four categories does not get published. That rule is the reason several cells in the main comparison table read "check the publisher's site" instead of carrying a number.

What is recorded for each title

Identity

Title as the publisher writes it, the publishing and developing companies, and the official site. Where one company publishes several titles in the library, that is noted, because it affects accounts and launchers.

Form of play

What the player controls, whether the game combines vehicle classes in one match, and the general pace. These are structural and change rarely.

Platform focus

Which desktop systems the publisher targets, and whether separately published console versions exist. Console and desktop editions are recorded as different products unless the publisher states that accounts and progress are shared.

Access path

What creating an account involves, and whether activation is required before play.

Commercial relationship

Whether Prowave earns anything from the title. Recorded for every entry, including the four where the answer is no.

Ordering, and why it is never editorial

Tables and lists on this site are ordered alphabetically by title. There is no ranking, no score out of ten, no "editor's choice" and no "best overall". The reason is structural rather than modest: a ranking is a single number standing in for a set of preferences the reader holds and this site does not know. A reader who wants short matches and a reader who wants long ones are not looking for the same answer, and a ranking would mislead one of them.

Alphabetical ordering also removes the most common place for commercial pressure to hide. When order is fixed by the alphabet, there is nothing for an advertiser to buy.

How advertising is handled

Prowave earns a commission when a reader follows a marked link to World of Tanks and then creates and activates an account. Three rules govern how that arrangement interacts with the content:

• Paid links appear in three places only: the homepage, that title's section of the comparison, and its own entry page. They are not scattered through unrelated guides to lift click volume.
• Every paid link carries a disclosure line immediately beside it, in ordinary body text rather than small print, saying that it is paid and who pays.
• The advertiser sees no copy before publication, has no approval over it, and cannot have a criticism removed. The limitations listed in the advertiser's own entry are there for that reason.

The complete arrangement, including what the commission does and does not influence, is set out on the affiliate disclosure page.

Review schedule and corrections

Every page carries a "last reviewed" date in the footer. A review means the links have been followed, the publisher pages still exist, and the statements on the page still match what those pages say. Pages are reviewed on a rolling basis and whenever a reader reports something that looks wrong.

Corrections are welcome and straightforward: send the page address and what is wrong to info@prowave.online. A factual error is corrected on the page and the review date is updated. Where the correction changes the meaning of something a reader may have acted on, the change is described on the page rather than made silently.

Who does the work

Prowave is written and maintained by the editorial team of NICE connection s.r.o., the company named in the footer of every page. There are no bylines on this site and no author profiles, because attaching an invented name and job title to a page is a common device for borrowing authority that has not been earned. The publisher's registered details are on the About page and in the footer below, which is the accountability that matters.