Comparing The Secret World and Age of Conan membership offers.
The Secret world:
Starting in February 2016, major changes are happening to the loyalty system and membership benefits in The Secret World. Membership benefits will now provide persistent perks as long as players remain a member and additional monthly bonuses will be rewarded based on time. Currently, there are 360 days of loyalty rewards and more will be announced every 6 months.
Veteran Points will be phased out, but they will remain a separate currency that can still be spent in the Item Store. Additionally, players who purchased the game will receive the first 30 days of Membership rewards.
Membership benefits:
•A 30% increase to all Experience earned (this replaces the Time Accelerator).
•A 50% boost to all Black Bullions gained.
•20% extra capacity for Black Bullions and Marks of the Pantheon.
•8-hour Mission Cooldowns.
•18-hour Raid Lockout Timers.
•2 Lockout Timer Resets every 30 days. This item resets all active Cooldowns (Missions/Raids/Scenarios).
•A 10% storewide discount for everything in the item shop (20% for Grand Masters).
•1200 Bonus Points every 30 days.
•Free Anima Leaps!
For players looking to stick with The Secret World for the long haul, Grand Master memberships are 25% off and will instantly grant all loyalty rewards
Age of Conan: odonoptera'post
Membership will now grant the following:
•A passive 30% bonus to PvE and PvP XP, including AA for as long as you’re a member. This replaces the Blessing of Asura. The Blessing of Asura will be removed from all characters.
•15 Teleport Coins, per character, each month for free.
•Boosted Token gains from Raids, PvP and Khitai areas.
•A passive 30% increase to all faction gains.
•The ability to unlock Alternate Advancement perks via time, starting at Level 20.
•An additional AA point per level gained.
•+7 Character slots. New, Free accounts made after the transition start with 1 character slot by default. All existing accounts will keep however many slots they had.
•Increased Quest Journal capacity.
•Unlimited gold capacity.
Important: Offline Levels are being completely removed from the game once the new membership system goes live. We’re aiming at June 30th; this date is subject to change, but you should use your offline levels by then, as they will disappear after the changes go live!
As a veteran player, I see very little benefits for almost fully developed toons, in the Age of Conan membership offer. Sure the new membership offer will benefit new players. As a veteran player, I dislike paying for a membership, when my toons have been locked out of any meaningful progression. I really like this part of The Secret Worlds offer, and if it could be incorporated into the Age of Conan offer, I think it would be a more positive step forward.
•8-hour Mission Cooldowns.
•18-hour Raid Lockout Timers.
•2 Lockout Timer Resets every 30 days. This item resets all active Cooldowns (Missions/Raids/Scenarios).
Sincerely, veteran players have 1500 achievement points and are able to move around the Age of Conan map. Teleport coins send you straight to the instance location. But are useless if you are locked out of the instance. Lets change the lockout timer in the membership, to make the game more playable, more often.