Patent ID: 8734228

Claim:
A method of providing an incentive reward to a holder of a player identifier who is a player of one of a plurality of gaming machines in a gaming system and is a participant in a membership loyalty scheme, each of the plurality of the gaming machines having (1) a player interface arranged to receive the player identifier, (2) a game controller arranged to play a base game, and (3) at least one bonus triggering condition including at least one member bonus triggering condition, the method comprising: providing a base game via the game controller on the gaming machine being played by the player whether or not a player identifier has been received by the player interface of the gaming machine; determining an occurrence of a member bonus triggering condition; in response to determining said member bonus triggering condition, (1) determining whether a player identifier has been received by the player interface; and (2) activating a bonus in response to determining that a player identifier has been received by the player interface, wherein the activated bonus comprises a secondary game that is common on all of the plurality of gaming machines that participate in the membership loyalty scheme, irrespective of the base game provided on the gaming machine being played by the player.