Membership Loyalty

An overview of what we know so far of the planned "Membership Loyalty" feature.

Introduction

This feature was released in 2022 as part of the Spring update of that year! Prior, it was on test realm from April 22nd.

Released as of 28/04/2022 (04/28/2022)

With V_r709145.WizardDev or the initial update of the Fall test realm on 8th November, we were getting indications of a rather self explanatory "MembershipLoyalty" feature. Below is the "MembershipLoyalty.lang" file introduced to Root with this update.

MembershipLoyalty.lang

Information History

Tue, April 12th 2022

(Spring TR) V_r715879.WizardDev

It's finally here! This wouldn't actually be enabled until later in on test realm but for archival purposes this feature was included with the spring test realm. Please read the very cool information box below, along with some additional info.

1. Yes, the tokens cap is 12. At some point you will have to spend tokens to get more. Your tier is equal to the tokens you get each month.

2. This feature is known as "Loyalty Program" officially - and is server sided, so we can't tell what will be added at a later date.

3. The Chaos Wizard Hat is here! This is from the Shadow elegant set, and leaves the robe and shoes to go...

Wed, February 16th 2022

V_r712625.Wizard_1_470

Today's changes to the files mainly brings the re-brand of Member Tokens to Loyalty Tokens into various art associated with the feature. Though, twelve of the Vendor NPCs are added with what's likely test items, such as elixirs.

Wed, January 19th 2022

V_r711496.Wizard_1_470

With today's changes, any mention of "Member tokens" is replaced with "Loyalty tokens", a new Purchase Log UI (and supporting code) was added. Also a lot of "behind-the-scenes" stuff was added to test this feature, like CS GUI's and various new classes/properties.

According to this data, there seems to be a Loyalty Cap and a forced spend at a certain threshold.

MembershipLoyalty.lang

SpendSomeTokensBeforeClaim

You have to spend some Tokens before you can claim any more!
TokenBalanceExceedLoyaltyCap

Your current Token Balance is #1:$MTBALANCE$, which is above or equal the cap of #2:$MTCAP$

New "Loyalty Purchase Log"

Member tokens -> Loyalty tokens

What we know

So far, our understanding of the feature is as follows (unofficial):

1. For every month your membership is renewed, you can claim a Loyalty Token.

2. The longer you're a member, the more tokens you get per month up to 4. This is known as a tier. There is a tier demotion trigger, likely dropping Membership.

3. You can use the tokens you get to buy stuff from the Loyalty shop (see below), though you can't hoard tokens as you are forced to spend tokens before claiming more at a certain unknown threshold.

Tue, November 30th 2021

As time went on, this feature was further developed, from the background of the Loyalty Store, to the help text for the Membership Loyalty store, helping us to further understand the upcoming feature.

In short, from what we know, tokens are earned by recurring memberships, longer membership allows access to more tokens per month. You can then buy things with tokens. The files do indicate that there is a Tier demotion trigger, though there isn't much information on that.

Help text for the Membership Loyalty store, explaining the relation between the Tokens and Membership.

Sources/Timeline

Thu, 28th April 2022: This feature is released with the Spring update, therefore this feature is considered released.

Fri, 22nd April 2022: 'Loyalty Store' is enabled on test realm, giving us the first look at the items within it, including the new Shadow elegant hat!

Tue, 12th April 2022 / V_r715879.WizardDev: This feature forms part of the Spring 2022 update, but isn't enabled yet on test realm. Notably, this is now completely server side. It's here!

Wed, 19th Jan 2022 / V_r711496.Wizard_1_470: Purchase Log is added to the files, along with various additions to the MembershipLoyalty.lang file, revealing a Loyalty cap and forced spend before claiming more.

Tue, 30th Nov 2021 / V_r710107.WizardDev: The help text for the loyalty store is added to the files, giving us some more information about the upcoming feature.

Mon, 8th Nov 2021 / LM V_r709145.WizardDev: Players receive the first indications of a Membership Loyalty scheme from the Fall 2021 test.

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