The Problem

Cheating Is Destroying
Your Game

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1 in 5 online players has quit a game permanently due to cheating.

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Cheaters don’t just ruin matches — they kill communities and tank reviews.

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Existing anti-cheat lives on the software layer — it can be bypassed, spoofed, and circumvented.

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Hardware bans get evaded with $30 USB adapters and VM spoofs.

“We banned the account. They came back in 10 minutes with a new one.”

The Gap

Why Software Anti-Cheat
Isn’t Enough

Method	How Cheaters Bypass It
Account bans	New account in minutes, free to make
IP bans	VPNs, dynamic IPs, shared networks
Software anti-cheat	Kernel bypasses, VMs, spoofed signatures
Hardware ID spoofing	Easily faked — no verification of authenticity

⚠ The root issue: there’s no trusted identity at the hardware level.

The Solution

Introducing
Sentinel ID

Hardware-rooted device identity
for online games.

A cryptographic identity lives inside every Sentinel-registered device — permanently, immutably, at the hardware layer. No software can spoof it. No account reset can clear it.

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No software to install or bypassIdentity is provisioned at manufacture — zero attack surface

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No accounts to createIdentity lives in the hardware, not in credentials

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Works transparentlyGamers don’t need to do anything — it just works

Architecture

How It Works

🕹 Player Device

Hardware layer

→

🎮 Game Client

Passes payload

→

💻 Your Server

Your backend

→

🛡 Sentinel API

One API call

→

✅ Trust Score + ID

Instant response

⚡ One API call. No SDK required on the client. No kernel drivers. Under 50ms.

The Feature

TrustPlay
Lobbies

The feature your competitive
players have been asking for.

“Join a TrustPlay lobby — hardware-verified, cheat-free, no exceptions.”

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Hardware-Verified Players

No spoofed identities. Every player in a TrustPlay lobby has a cryptographically verified device.

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Permanent Device-Level Bans

No ban evasion. New account, new IP, new VPN — same device, same ban. Permanently.

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Premium Matchmaking Tier

Market it as a selling point. TrustPlay is the competitive differentiator your ranked players want.

Publisher Platform

What Publishers Get

Device Identity API	Know exactly who is on what hardware, across accounts and sessions
Permanent Hardware Bans	Ban once — they can’t come back on that device. Ever.
Cross-Publisher Reputation	Share ban lists with other publishers on the Sentinel network
TrustPlay Lobby Signal	Boolean flag: `device.trustplay_eligible = true/false`
Sandbox Environment	Test every scenario at zero cost before going live
Full Audit Log	Every check, every decision, timestamped and queryable

Marketing Angle

TrustPlay Is a
Marketing Asset

Don’t just ship an anti-cheat patch.
Ship a feature your players will talk about.

📋 This becomes a feature you ship in your patch notes.

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TrustPlay badge on verified profilesLet honest players show their verified status in-game

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Ranked modes in TrustPlay pools onlyOffer competitive access exclusively to hardware-verified players

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Community self-policingCheaters can’t enter — your community already knows it

Enforcement

Ban Evasion Is Over

Traditional Ban

Step 1Player banned

Step 2Creates new account (free, takes 60 seconds)

Step 3Back in game within 10 minutes

New account✓ Works

Change IP✓ Works

Reinstall✓ Works

Use VPN✓ Works

Sentinel Ban

Step 1Device banned at hardware level

Step 2Cryptographic flag set — permanent

Step 3No path back. Full stop.

New account✗

Change IP✗

Reinstall✗

Use VPN✗

Developer Experience

Integration Is Simple

Request

POST https://api.sentinel-id.com/v1/check

{
  "device_payload": "<payload from game client>"
}

Response

{
  "device_id":           "snid_abc123",
  "trusted":            true,
  "ban_status":         "clean",
  "trustplay_eligible": true
}

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No client SDKPass the payload from device to your server — no library needed

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No kernel driversNothing to install on the player’s machine

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Any engine / platformUnity, Unreal, custom — if it can make HTTP calls, it works

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<50ms responseFast enough to check on every match join

Pricing Model

Sandbox Is Free.
You Only Pay in Production.

1

Start in SandboxTest bans, trust scores, and TrustPlay checks — at zero cost

2

Usage-Based PricingPay for API checks, not seats. Scale with your player base.

3

Go Live in DaysNot months. Sandbox to production in one click after review.

Get Started Today

1Create a publisher account at dashboard.sentinel-id.com

2Get your sandbox API key instantly

3Make your first device check — takes under an hour to integrate

4Ship TrustPlay lobbies to your players

Timing & Opportunity

Why Now

Cheating complaints are at an all-time high across competitive titles — forums, subreddits, and reviews are dominated by it.

Players are vocal — review bombs, social media backlash, refund requests. Inaction has a real, measurable cost.

Anti-cheat arms races are expensive and losing. The software layer is a treadmill with no end.

First publishers to ship TrustPlay lobbies own the narrative on competitive integrity in their genre.

The window to differentiate on this is open now. Early adopters set the standard others are forced to follow.

🎯 Be the publisher known for actually solving this.

Hardware-rooted identity. Permanent enforcement.
The trust layer your game has been missing.

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Cheating Is DestroyingYour Game

Why Software Anti-CheatIsn’t Enough

IntroducingSentinel ID