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.
🚫What's Not Allowed
- 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.
📊P2W Score Guide
When rating a game's P2W level, consider these guidelines:
1-2Not P2WCosmetic-only purchases, no gameplay advantages for paying players.
3-4Minimal P2WMinor conveniences available for purchase, but free players can compete.
5-6Moderate P2WNoticeable advantages for paying players, but skill can overcome.
7-8Significant P2WClear disadvantage for free players, paying provides major benefits.
9-10Extreme P2WNearly impossible to compete without paying, pay-to-progress walls.
🤖How Moderation Works
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.
🎮Steam Playtime Verification
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.
📧Appeals
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.