Content Guidelines

Help us maintain a helpful and respectful community by following these guidelines when writing reviews.

✅What Makes a Good Review

Focus on P2W mechanics - Describe specific pay-to-win elements you encountered, such as paid advantages, loot boxes, or progression gates.
Be specific - Instead of "this game is P2W," explain what makes it P2W. What can you buy? How does it affect gameplay?
Share your experience - Did you feel disadvantaged as a free player? Were you pressured to spend money?
Be honest about playtime - Your Steam playtime is verified automatically. Be truthful about your experience level.
Stay objective - Separate your feelings about the game from the P2W analysis. A great game can still have P2W elements.
Provide context - Mention if you played competitively, casually, or in specific game modes.

Profanity and offensive language - Keep your review professional. Swearing, slurs, and vulgar language will result in rejection.
Hate speech and discrimination - No racism, sexism, homophobia, or any form of discrimination.
Personal attacks - Don't attack developers, publishers, or other players personally.
Spam and gibberish - Reviews must be coherent and provide value. No keyboard spam or meaningless text.
Off-topic content - Stay focused on the game's monetization. This isn't a general game review site.
False claims - Don't make up P2W elements that don't exist. Be accurate in your assessment.
Promotional content - No advertising, referral links, or promotional material.
Spoilers - Avoid major story spoilers without warning.

When rating a game's P2W level, consider these guidelines:

1-2

Not P2W

Cosmetic-only purchases, no gameplay advantages for paying players.

3-4

Minimal P2W

Minor conveniences available for purchase, but free players can compete.

5-6

Moderate P2W

Noticeable advantages for paying players, but skill can overcome.

7-8

Significant P2W

Clear disadvantage for free players, paying provides major benefits.

9-10

Extreme P2W

Nearly impossible to compete without paying, pay-to-progress walls.

All reviews go through our AI-powered moderation system:

Automatic screening - Reviews are checked for profanity, spam, and guideline violations.
AI analysis - Our AI evaluates the review for quality, relevance, and potential issues.
Decision - Reviews are approved, rejected, or flagged for human review based on AI confidence.
Human review - Flagged reviews are reviewed by our moderation team.

If your review is rejected, you'll see the reason why. You can edit your review to fix the issues and resubmit it.

For Steam games, we verify your playtime automatically:

Link your Steam account - Go to your profile to link your Steam account.
Public profile required - Your Steam game details must be set to public.
Verified badge - Reviews with verified playtime show a green badge.
Mismatch detection - If you claim hours that don't match Steam data, it will be flagged.

If you believe your review was incorrectly rejected, you have options:

Edit and resubmit - Fix the issues mentioned in the rejection reason and save your review to resubmit it.
Contact us - If you believe there was an error, email us at support@isitp2w.com with your review details.

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