Editorial policy
This site is funded by advertising, which gives it an obvious incentive to overstate things. This page sets out the rules we hold ourselves to so that it does not, and gives you the means to hold us to them.
Who writes this site
Editorial content on zlatina.online is written and signed by William Cooper, who is also the person responsible for the content of the site under the legal notice. Every editorial page carries a named byline and a publication date. If a page is not signed, it is not editorial — it is a legal or administrative page published by BRIGÁDA 972 s.r.o..
We do not publish anonymous articles, ghost-written vendor copy presented as editorial, or “guest posts” placed in exchange for money or links.
How facts are established
- Primary sources first. For a product, the publisher’s own site, store listing and update notes are the authority. We prefer them to aggregators, wikis and other people’s articles.
- Sources are listed. Each article says where the material came from, on the page itself and on the sources page.
- Uncertainty is stated, not smoothed over. Where a figure could not be verified, we say so in the article rather than picking a plausible number. Our main article carries an explicit “what we could not verify” section for exactly this reason.
- The publisher’s information prevails. Live-service products change. Where anything on this site diverges from what the product’s own publisher currently says, theirs is correct and ours is out of date.
- Dates are real. A publication date means the page was published that day. We do not refresh dates to look current.
How this site is funded
zlatina.online earns money in one way: affiliate commission. Buttons and links labelled partner link point to an advertiser. If you follow one and register with that advertiser, BRIGÁDA 972 s.r.o. may be paid a commission by them.
- You pay nothing extra. The commission is paid by the advertiser out of their marketing budget, and your price or terms are identical whether you use our link or go directly.
- Every commercial link is disclosed three times over: in the bar at the very top of every page, in a box immediately below the headline, and on the button itself — plus a note under each button explaining the commission.
- Technically, every commercial link carries rel="sponsored nofollow noopener", and the script on this site re-applies those attributes rather than stripping them.
- We take no payment for a favourable opinion, no payment to remove criticism, and no payment for links inside the body text.
We collect no data in the process: no cookies, no analytics, no pixels. See the cookie policy.
Advertiser independence
Advertisers and affiliate networks have no say over what appears here. Specifically:
- No advertiser reviews, approves or sees editorial copy before publication.
- No advertiser can have a criticism removed. Our main article states plainly that the game sells premium content, that better equipment brings tougher opponents, and that whether this amounts to pay-to-win is contested. That stays whether it suits the advertiser or not.
- Commission rates play no part in what we cover or how positively we cover it.
- If a commercial relationship ever made an honest article impossible, we would drop the commercial relationship, not the article.
What we refuse to publish
This list is not aspirational. It is the standard the site is held to, and any breach is a correctable error.
- No invented testimonials. No “reader stories”, no reader-submitted experiences, no quotes from people who do not exist, no stock photographs presented as real users. This site previously used a “reader story” framing; it was fiction and it has been removed.
- No invented ratings. No star ratings, no scores out of ten, no “9.4/10” badges, no fabricated review counts and no aggregate scores we did not compute from a stated method.
- No artificial urgency. No countdown timers, no “offer ends tonight”, no “only 3 places left”, no fake stock levels, no fake visitor counters.
- No guaranteed outcomes. No promises about what you will earn, win, achieve or experience. No “you will never get bored”, which is a sentence this site used to contain.
- No invented statistics. No player counts, download totals, market shares or percentages unless they come from a named source we link to.
- No unsubstantiated superlatives. Not “the best choice”, not “unmatched”, not “nobody ever goes back” — all of which this site used to say, and none of which anyone can verify.
- No disguised advertising. Commercial links are always labelled as such, above the fold, before any promotional content.
- No copied media. We publish no screenshots, artwork, logos or trailers belonging to the products we discuss. Every illustration on this site is an original diagram we drew.
Illustrations
All diagrams are original SVG files produced for this site. They are schematic explanations, not depictions of the product, and each one carries a caption saying so, alternative text describing its content for screen readers, and an embedded title and description.
Corrections
We will get things wrong. When we do:
- Tell us. Email info@zlatina.online with the page and what is wrong. You do not have to prove anything — pointing at it is enough for us to go and check.
- We check it against a primary source — usually the publisher’s own material.
- We fix the page and update its date.
- We log it in public on the corrections page, saying what was wrong and what it now says. Significant corrections are also noted on the page itself.
- We reply to you when you gave us a way to reply.
We do not quietly delete pages to make an error disappear. If a page is withdrawn, the corrections page says so and why.
Conflicts of interest
BRIGÁDA 972 s.r.o. has no ownership interest in, and no personnel in common with, the developers or publishers of any product discussed on this site. The only relationship is the affiliate one described under funding. zlatina.online is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by Darkflow Software or Gaijin Entertainment.
If you are unhappy with something here
Write to info@zlatina.online, or by post to BRIGÁDA 972 s.r.o., V domově 1699/18, Žižkov, 130 00 Praha 3, Czech Republic. Say what the problem is and which page it is on. Complaints about factual accuracy are handled through the corrections process above. Complaints about data protection are handled under the privacy policy, which also tells you how to escalate to the supervisory authority.