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Cost of NACE Anti-Cheat (QSec)

1 One-year cost of a typical online game

price

1.1 Before Release:

  • Conduct Game Security Assessment to find potential problems and fix them
  • Integrate SDK to get Basic Anti-Cheat Solution (Anti-debugging, Anti-injection, Anti-modification)

1.2 After Release:

  • Customized Anti-Cheat Solution (Large number of cheaters) service:

When the game was first released, there were the most players and the most cheaters, requiring high-intensity cheat detection. (Collect and analyse 1+ new cheat per week)

1.3 Live Ops:

  • Customized Anti-Cheat Solution (Ordinary number of cheaters) service:

When the game is operating steadily, there is usually only one new type of cheat per month, which can be solved by only one targeted update detection

1.4 First-year Price estimation:

  • Estimated total workloads (First year):

Game Security Assessment & SDK Integration: 1 month (Free trial)

Customized Anti-Cheat Solution (Large number of cheaters): 3 months(First month free trial)

Customized Anti-Cheat Solution (Ordinary number of cheaters): 8 months (one cheat analysis report per month)

  • Estimated total price (First year):

38400 USD - 12800 USD (Free trial) = 25600 USD

  • Estimated total price (Second year):

19200 USD (1600 USD / month)

2 Pricing Details

2.1 Game Security Assessment

Overall security assessment of the game, including code risks, feature injection, cracking possibilities, etc.

Time required Total Price
1 Month 6400 USD

Note1: Our dedicated engineers have 5+ years of game security and game reverse engineering experience, and have ability to work in English.

2.2 Basic Anti-Cheat Solution

Free of charge, service includes:

  • SDK integration

  • Cheats sample collection

  • Data output

  • Basic anti-cheat strategies (Anti-debugging, Anti-injection, Anti-modification)

Type Time Required Total Price
SDK Integration 10 Working Days Free

2.3 Customized Anti-Cheat Solution

Monthly billing, service includes:

  • Dedicated engineers for security issues:

Rapid response to new security issues within 48 hours, Answer questions, provide suggestions, and develop new security features

  • Sample cheats analysis:

When a new cheat appears in the game, the engineers will quickly analyze it and provide a report with the cheat's functionality, the techniques used and countermeasure suggestions.

  • Strategy development and online punishment:

Update cheat detection and punishment strategies. Once a new type of cheat is collected, it can take a minimum of two days to develop a targeted detection strategy and turn on real-time punishment

Type Service Total Price
Large number of cheaters Four or more cheat analysis reports per month (Collect and analyse 1+ new cheat every week) 6400 USD per Month
Ordinary number of cheaters One to three cheat analysis reports per month (Collect and analyse when new cheat appears) 1600 USD per Report (1600 to 4800 USD per Month)

Note1: This is the start-up phase of our overseas anti-cheat service, therefore we are offering the first six-month free trial

Note2: Our dedicated engineers have 5+ years of game security and game reverse engineering experience, and have ability to work in English.

Note3: Cheat analysis report provide 'cheat sample', 'how the cheat works', 'how can we detect the cheaters', 'related scripts'. We can also provide sample cheat analysis reports for reference