Evidence
Provide the relevant configuration, catalog, service inventory, screenshots or recordings, test account/build, and a clear description of remotely controlled behavior.
CPS-08
No Hostile Notifications
Notifications must be useful, truthful, requested, easy to stop, and free of guilt or manufactured urgency.
Does not pass
Prohibited patterns
"Your character misses you," team guilt, false emergency, streak-loss threats, repeated purchase pressure, default-on marketing, or repeated permission nagging.
Can pass
Permitted patterns
Requested reminders, factual multiplayer turns, transaction/security notices, download completion, and off-by-default event categories.
How the audit treats this rule
Evidence, behavior, and edge cases.
Test
The reviewer checks actual behavior across applicable account states, regions, purchase paths, notifications, remote flags, and relevant service traffic.
Pass condition
The prohibited behavior is absent, permitted behavior fits the stated caveat, and the evidence is sufficient for the frozen product scope.