The (in)dependent Gameserver Comparison

June 07, 2016

Among some, it may already have spread that a game server comparison site has been run for years by a game server provider, or that this provider is involved there. After the site's 2016 relaunch, it repeatedly points to the independence and the experience since 2003. However, this more corresponds to the domain age, as the project already had several owners.

However, nowhere can one find the name of the second shareholder, who also runs some game server labels under another GmbH. Only an excerpt from the commercial register shows that, at least since the last change, the game server provider has been part of the party and, since 2013, his namesake. Whether the name has been deliberately kept hidden for years, we do not wish to assess.

Providers that have been listed there for years should consider consulting a lawyer, and they have good reason to do so. On the comparison site's pages, not all game server providers are listed, but only a total of seven. Of those, three labels belong to the GmbH in which the shareholder is involved. However, the comparison site advertises that it features the best game server providers in Germany. It also gladly recommends the shareholder's own label on the individual game information pages, albeit without mentioning two or three others. The site's own independence is repeatedly suggested, and it wants to appear very neutral.