Affiliate Disclosure

Some articles on Gacha Codex contain affiliate links. This page explains what that means, which programs we participate in, and why this never changes which products we recommend.

The plain-English version

If you click a link on this site to buy a product — for example, a controller, a headset, a desk or a chair — and you make a purchase, the retailer pays us a small commission. The price you pay is exactly the same. This commission helps keep Gacha Codex free for readers and ad-light.

The Federal Trade Commission notice

Gacha Codex is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases.

Affiliate programs we currently use

• Amazon Associates (United States) — tracking tag jeffzen911-20. Used for gaming peripherals, ergonomic seating, monitors and a small number of related consumer-electronics categories that come up in our reader questions.

If we add additional programs in future, they will be listed here. We will never add a program that requires us to make claims we cannot independently verify.

How to spot affiliate links

Affiliate links on Gacha Codex are marked in two ways:

• Articles that contain affiliate links carry a short disclosure banner at the top of the article body.
• Individual affiliate links use rel="sponsored" (the W3C / Google standard attribute for paid placements), so readers and search engines can identify them.

Editorial independence

The most important thing on this page:

• Tier-list placements never depend on commission rates. A character or weapon ranked S+ is ranked S+ because the gameplay data supports it, full stop.
• Product recommendations are driven by reader fit, not by which merchant pays the most. If the best "budget gaming chair under $300" is sold somewhere we don't earn a commission from, that's the one we recommend — and we link to it without an affiliate wrapper.
• We don't insert affiliate links into game guides where they're not relevant. A boss strategy doesn't need a chair recommendation; we won't add one just to monetize the page.
• We never accept payment from a manufacturer to feature a product. The Amazon affiliate relationship is the only commercial relationship that influences which retail links we show.

If you'd prefer not to use our affiliate links

You are always welcome to search for any recommended product directly on the retailer's site, rather than clicking through our link. The recommendation is what we want you to take from the article; the commission is just how we keep the lights on.

Questions or concerns

If you spot a link that looks like it should be marked as affiliate but isn't, or if you think a recommendation looks compromised by commission, please tell us through the contact form. We take this seriously.