Customize enrollment of live events

How a player enters an event shapes their relationship with it. This page covers how Satori supports a flexible join mechanism and how sticky membership supports data integrity.

Flexible join mechanism #

Satori supports both implicit and explicit enrollment, giving LiveOps managers control over the join mechanic that best fits each event’s design intent.

flexible join live events
Choose how players should join your live event from the Target Audience step

Implicit enrollment #

This is the default for most events. Players who meet the audience criteria are enrolled automatically. This is the right model for broadly targeted retention events such as login reward sequences, seasonal progressions, and re-engagement campaigns where maximum reach matters without friction.

Explicit join #

This requires players to actively opt in before the event begins. The player sees the event, makes a deliberate choice to participate, and that choice is the enrollment trigger.

This is especially useful for monetization events where participation involves a purchase or commitment at the point of entry. Other examples include a battle pass activation or a starter bundle that triggers an event track.

To let players explicitly join events, use the Join Live Event API in your preferred client SDK. See the Unity example.

Sticky membership #

By default, Satori keeps players inside an event for its full duration once they’ve qualified for it. This is Sticky Membership. It ensures players don’t leave an event just because their audience memberships have changed, which has direct consequences for the player experience and the reliability of your performance data.

A player who enters a seven-day seasonal event on day one has made decisions based on what they were shown. Removing them from the event mid-flight because their segment profile has shifted can create broken experiences.

Sticky membership also keeps your event metrics clean. A fluctuating audience mid-event makes it harder to tell what’s actually driving your numbers.

When Explicit Join is toggled on, sticky membership is automatically toggled on. Explicit join implies sticky membership. A player who opted into an event shouldn’t lose access because their audience criteria changed after they joined.

When to disable sticky membership #

Disabling sticky membership means players exit the event as soon as they no longer match its audience criteria. Whether that’s the right behavior depends on the event type and what you want those players to experience next.

Consider a player enrolled in an event targeting players above level 10. If they reach level 50 mid-event, they move out of that audience and into a level 50 audience that has its own live event with better-suited content and rewards. With sticky membership on, they stay in the original event for its full duration even though a more relevant one is now available to them.

The right choice depends on the event design:

  • Competitive or league-style events (tournaments, leaderboards, ranked seasons): keep sticky membership on. A player who starts a tournament run should be able to finish it.
  • Content or reward events (side quests, daily missions, progression rewards): disabling sticky membership can work in your favor. A player who levels up mid-event graduates into a higher-tier event with rewards matched to their current progression. Keeping them in the original event means they miss content designed for where they are now.