Affiliate disclosure
Concept Base earns money from advertising links. This page explains exactly how that works, who pays, what it costs you, and what it does and does not influence in the content.
The arrangement in three sentences
Concept Base carries links to Crossout that are paid advertising links. An advertising network pays City services s.r.o. a commission when a reader follows one of those links and then creates an account and confirms the email address with the game's publisher. The reader pays nothing for this, and the terms, price and content of the game are exactly the same whether the link is used or not.
Who pays, and for what
The payment comes from the advertising network that represents the game to publishers such as this site. It is not a payment from the reader, it is not added to anything the reader may later spend, and it does not depend on the reader spending anything at all. The commission is triggered by an account being created and the email address being confirmed — the sequence described on step five — which is why that page describes the sequence rather than glossing over it.
Commission rates in this kind of arrangement vary by country and change over time, and this site does not publish a figure for a simple reason: the number is set by the network, not by us, and quoting a stale figure would be worse than quoting none. What matters for a reader is the direction of the incentive, not its size, and the direction is stated plainly above.
What the arrangement decides
It decides which product appears on this site. Crossout is covered because there is a commercial relationship attached to it; there is no editorial competition it won, and no independent assessment placed it ahead of anything else. The about page says the same thing in the same words, because an honest narrow scope is worth more than a claim of breadth we could not support.
What the arrangement does not decide
- What is said about the product. Product-specific statements come only from the description supplied by the network, and the page that covers the title spends most of its length listing what that description does not say.
- The order or prominence of anything. There is no ranking on this site, no comparison scored in the product's favour, and no "best of" list. The seven-step path is ordered by what a reader needs to do first.
- Whether inconvenient information appears. Platform limits, unanswered questions about in-game purchases, classification, and the fact that this site does not test the game are all stated on the page carrying the link.
- The six pages that are not about a product. Steps one to four, six and seven cover the category, the platform check, account security, classification and consumer rights. They would read identically with every affiliate link removed.
How the links are implemented
Every paid link on this site points directly at the advertiser's address, visible in the browser's status bar before you click it. There is no redirect through this domain, no link shortener, no script that rewrites the destination, and no page that sends you onward automatically. Each paid link carries rel="sponsored nofollow noopener", which is the standard way of telling search engines that a link is paid, and opens in a new tab. A sentence identifying the link as paid sits immediately next to it, every time, in ordinary body text.
Nothing about this site's behaviour changes depending on where a visitor came from, what browser they use or which country they are in. What a moderator sees is what a reader sees.
Where this disclosure appears
In three places, deliberately. On the homepage, in a box in the upper part of the page, above the first paid link. Immediately next to every paid link on any page. And here, in full. The purpose of repeating it is that a reader should never encounter a link on this site without knowing what it is, regardless of which page they landed on.
Australian context
Advertising that is not identifiable as advertising is a consumer protection problem, not only an etiquette one. Under the Australian Consumer Law, misleading or deceptive conduct in trade is prohibited, and the obligation falls on the publisher of the statement as much as on the advertiser. The ACCC publishes guidance on advertising and selling, including the treatment of paid endorsements and reviews. This page exists because that obligation is ours.
What we do not do
We do not publish testimonials, user reviews, ratings, awards or endorsements of any kind, whether real or invented. We do not claim to have tested the game. We do not describe ourselves as an official, authorised or partner site of any publisher, because we are none of those things. We do not collect anything from readers: there is no form, no newsletter and no tracking, as the privacy policy and cookie policy set out.
If any of this changes — a different product, a different kind of arrangement, or a commercial relationship with more than one publisher — this page is updated before the change appears in the content, and the affected pages state their position individually. Questions about the arrangement can be sent to info@conceptbase.online.