@Stephen Not assuming. It’s just the game is still in it’s experimental phase and at this point we don’t think it is right to add memberships/donations to the forum, when the game itself isn’t monetized. There’s a huge amount of beta testers, but the community itself isn’t big enough to have special perks. 
Edit: We don’t own the game. We do have permission to run the forum, though. The game is owned by RocketSnail (the creator of Club Penguin, which was sold to Disney for $350M), who is now creating a new virtual world, which at this point isn’t making any profit.