Questions from Australian players

The advertising programme behind our links describes the qualifying action as registration, download, and creating and activating an account, rather than a purchase, and the game is distributed as a free-to-play title whose revenue comes from optional in-game purchases made afterwards. What those purchases are, and what they cost in AUD, is not documented in the material we hold, so check the in-game shop and the vendor's own terms. Our page on in-game spending explains how these economies are usually structured.

No. The programme material states that this is a desktop title for Mac and Windows and that Linux is not supported. A compatibility layer may sometimes launch an unsupported client, but that can fall outside the game's terms and support is under no obligation to assist. If Linux is the only operating system in the house, pick a title that supports it, as covered on our requirements page.

Not in the form covered here. The material we hold describes a desktop product for Mac and Windows. Similarly named products on other devices are separate releases with their own requirements and their own economies, and nothing on this site should be read as describing them.

Treat it as lapsed. The same material that documents the code gives its end of life as 31 January 2025, which has passed. Whether any replacement promotion exists is not stated anywhere we can verify, so the vendor's own site is the place to check. An expired code entered in a game simply fails; that is not a fault to work around. The background is on our page about the game.

Generally the region closest to you, because distance sets a floor on response time that no local hardware improves. The region is usually chosen at account creation and can be awkward to change later, since progress does not always move with you. Which regions are offered, and which one an Australian account defaults to, is a question for the vendor's support pages rather than for us.

We do not publish figures, because the honest answer depends on your connection, your distance from the server, and the time of day. What is general: a wired connection is more stable than wireless, jitter matters more than raw speed, and evening congestion is a common cause of problems that appear only at certain hours. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission publishes broadband performance reporting and consumer guidance at accc.gov.au.

More than the installed size, because updates download and unpack before replacing older files, and games in this genre grow over time. The current installed size is published by the vendor and is the only figure worth relying on. Our setup page covers the storage and update questions in more detail.

Not reliably. These services re-route your traffic through a network you cannot inspect, and whether the new path is shorter than your provider's is outside your control. They also cost money in AUD every month. The changes with a predictable effect are plugging into the router with a cable, choosing the nearest server region, and reducing what else in the house is using the connection during a match.

Check at the checkout screen before your first purchase. Where a shop prices in another currency, the amount that leaves your account depends on your card issuer's conversion rate and any international transaction fee, neither of which appears in the game. Goods and services tax generally applies to digital products sold to Australian consumers by overseas suppliers; the rules are published by the Australian Taxation Office at ato.gov.au.

It depends on why. Consumer guarantees under Australian Consumer Law apply to digital products bought by consumers here and sit alongside a publisher's own refund policy, which cannot remove them. A change of mind is a different matter from an item that is faulty or not as described. Start with the publisher's support system, keep your receipts, and read the guidance published by the ACCC. The order to work through is set out on our spending page.

Purchases made outside the publisher's own shop commonly breach the account terms, and the consequence falls on the account rather than on the seller. If an account is closed, everything bought through it goes too. Offers of this kind can be reported to Scamwatch, which is run by the National Anti-Scam Centre.

Change the password on the email address attached to the account before anything else, because whoever holds the account can otherwise undo each step you take. Then use the publisher's recovery process, with your activation email and purchase receipts as evidence. Report it to Scamwatch, and use the cybercrime reporting route operated through the Australian Cyber Security Centre. Our account security page sets out the full order.

Look the exact title up in the national classification database at classification.gov.au and read both the classification and the consumer advice. We do not quote classifications, because a figure repeated on an affiliate page goes stale. Separately, a game that sells randomised items is not presented on this site as suitable for children, and chat with strangers is a question the classification does not answer. The controls available are listed on our classification and family settings page.

Yes. Links to World of Warships on this site are affiliate links, and the publisher of this site is paid a commission by an advertising programme when a reader registers and activates an account after following one. You pay nothing extra and your terms with the vendor are unchanged. The commission is the same whether or not you later spend money in the game. The full arrangement is set out on our affiliate disclosure page.

No, and nothing here is presented as a test result, a benchmark or a score. This site explains the category, points to the sources that hold authoritative answers, and states what its commercial relationship is. Where a fact about a product is not documented in material we can verify, the relevant page says so instead of estimating. The method is described in full on our About page.

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