About Pioneer Point

Pioneer Point is a small comparison library covering online vehicle combat games, written for readers in Australia. This page states who publishes it, how coverage is decided, how it is funded, and—because it matters more than the rest—what it deliberately is not.

Who publishes this site

Those details appear in the footer of every page on this site, and again in the privacy policy and on the contact page. A reader should be able to find out who is behind a site without hunting for it, and repeating the information is cheaper than making anyone look.

What the site covers, and how much

The subject is games in which the player controls a military vehicle rather than an individual soldier: tanks, aircraft, helicopters and ships. The library currently holds five titles. That is a deliberate number, not a stage on the way to a larger one.

The reasoning is straightforward. Entries in this category go stale quickly, because requirements change with updates and monetisation changes with seasons. Five entries can be opened, read against their publishers' current material and corrected on a quarterly cycle by a small team. Thirty entries cannot, and a site with thirty stale entries is worse than useless, because the staleness is invisible to the reader.

Around the library sit four supporting pages, each answering a question that a comparison table cannot: how games charge money after they have been installed, what to settle before installing anything, how accounts in this category are lost and protected, and the questions readers ask most often. Those pages carry no product recommendations at all.

How coverage is decided

This is the part most sites leave vague, so it is stated plainly.

What determines inclusion. A game is in the library if the player's primary unit is a vehicle, if online play against other people is a core mode, and if the publisher maintains a current official website in English. Commercial relationships play no part in inclusion. Four of the five entries have no commercial relationship with this site at all.

What determines the order. Alphabetical order by title, and nothing else. Not popularity, not recency, not preference, and specifically not payment. Alphabetical ordering was chosen because a reader can verify it at a glance, which means it cannot be quietly bent later.

What determines the content of an entry. Six fixed questions, asked in the same order every time, answered only from the publisher's own public material or from an Australian government body writing within its remit. Where neither source answers, the entry says the information is not stated. The method page sets all of this out in full, including the three judgements this site refuses to make: no scores, no rankings, and no descriptions of how a game feels to play.

What honesty requires us to admit. Those rules produce a duller site than most. They leave out the play impressions, the tier lists and the verdicts that make games coverage enjoyable to read. They also remove every place where an undisclosed interest could hide, which is the trade being made, consciously, and readers are entitled to weigh it themselves.

Who writes it

Pages on this site are written and reviewed by the Kalos investing s.r.o. editorial team. No individual bylines are published, no staff biographies are presented, and no personal expertise is claimed on any page. The editorial work here is checking publishers' public statements, recording them against a fixed set of questions, linking the source, and revisiting the whole set on a schedule. That work does not require a named expert and it would be misleading to decorate it with one.

Every page carries a review date in its footer. A review means the publisher links were opened and confirmed, and the entry was read against the publisher's current public material. A page that has not been reviewed within the quarterly cycle keeps its older date rather than having the date refreshed to look current.

How the site is funded

By affiliate commission, from one game out of five. War Thunder is covered under a paid arrangement: a reader who follows the labelled link to the publisher's site, registers an account, confirms their email address and signs in to the game generates a fixed commission for Kalos investing s.r.o. No purchase by the reader is involved at any point, and nothing costs more because the link was used.

The arrangement is disclosed in the upper part of the homepage, beside every paid link wherever one appears, and in full on the affiliate disclosure page. The site carries no display advertising, no sponsored posts, no paid placements in the library and no payment for inclusion. Requests from publishers to be added are checked against the same three conditions as a request from a reader.

What this site is not

• Not an official source. Pioneer Point is not the official site of any game, not a partner, not a reseller, and not an authorised representative. Each entry links to the publisher's own website, which is the official source for that title.
• Not a news outlet. There is no newsroom here, no reporting, no exclusives and no coverage of announcements. The site describes products against fixed criteria and nothing more.
• Not a review site. No scores, no rankings, no verdicts, and no personal accounts of playing anything.
• Not a download site. Game clients come from their publishers. Nothing is hosted or distributed here.
• Not a security or legal adviser. The guidance pages summarise public information from Australian government sources and link them. They are general information, not advice about any reader's situation.

What the site collects about readers

Nothing, and that is worth being specific about. There is no form anywhere on this site, no newsletter, no account, no quiz and no chat widget. The site sets no cookies, uses no analytics, carries no advertising tags and loads no third-party scripts—not even a web font, which means the site makes no external request of any kind while you read it. There is consequently no consent banner, because there is nothing to consent to.

What remains is the ordinary server log kept by the hosting provider, and whatever a reader chooses to write in an email. The privacy policy and the cookie policy describe both in detail, and neither describes anything this site does not actually do.