Author Topic: Snail mail letter campaign for Last Story, Xenoblade and Pandora's Tower. (Read 10030 times)

BlkPaladin · « **on:** June 25, 2011, 09:29:40 AM »

I guess someone at IGN is organizing a letter campaign to have people send a letter begging for the games to come out, included with an optional gift. I guess this has worked before for TV shows. Where the fans snail-mail spammed the CEO of the networks.

http://boards.ign.com/nintendo_wii_lobby/b8270/203345328/p1 - Contains sample letters for each game and when they should be sent so they arrive at the same time. (Three letter mailings, one for each game.

http://www.metacritic.com/feature/save-our-show-a-history-of-tv-fan-campaigns - The story on metacritic about the shows this type of campaign saved.

Mannypon · « **Reply #1 on:** June 25, 2011, 09:45:00 AM »

Hopefully this does work. FYI, there is a facebook and twitter campaign going on where people are spamming nintendo's official pages. Also, I just found out that a third approach is being done through amazon. Amazon has xenoblade under its previous name, manodo (i think). People have taking it upon themselves to preorder the game from amazon. Its currently jumped to I believe the 650th most saught after item after being up in the thousands.

NeoStar9X · « **Reply #2 on:** June 25, 2011, 10:09:12 AM »

It's now the following.

#25 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
#1 in Video Games > Wii > Action
#4 in Video Games > Wii > All Games

http://www.amazon.com/Monado-Beginning-World-Nintendo-Wii/dp/B002IM1MYG/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1309010872&sr=8-

Retro Deckades · « **Reply #3 on:** June 25, 2011, 10:47:37 AM »

Quote from: NeoStar9X on June 25, 2011, 10:09:12 AM

It's now the following.

#25 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
#1 in Video Games > Wii > Action
#4 in Video Games > Wii > All Games

http://www.amazon.com/Monado-Beginning-World-Nintendo-Wii/dp/B002IM1MYG/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1309010872&sr=8-

Wow, that's encouraging stuff. Hopefully Nintendo takes notice.

Mop it up · « **Reply #4 on:** June 25, 2011, 02:04:48 PM »

That's pretty funny about the Amazon listing. I think I'll pre-order it too since it requires no money up front.

Wow, it's now number 4.

Sundoulos · « **Reply #5 on:** June 25, 2011, 02:58:56 PM »

I plan to write my own letter, and I've made a pre-order on Amazon as well. It will be interesting to see if Nintendo acknowledges this in any way.

Nice...now it's number 3.

Ceric · « **Reply #6 on:** June 25, 2011, 04:08:26 PM »

If a large number of Pre-Orders doesn't turn NoA's head I will definitely use that to back my opinion that NoA loves to ignore and defecate on their loyalists.

Shaymin · « **Reply #7 on:** June 25, 2011, 04:14:56 PM »

It's now NUMBER ONE on Amazon for all of video games. Amazon best sellers page

I would have joined in but I'm in the wrong country. Congrats, all... now all we can do is hope Nintendo listens.

KisakiProject · « **Reply #8 on:** June 25, 2011, 05:15:53 PM »

From people I talk to their phone lines were jammed yesterday so many people called about Xenoblade. I can only hope the call center manager got mad and called Reggie.

MegaByte · « **Reply #9 on:** June 25, 2011, 06:12:25 PM »

They supposedly make a log every time they get a call like this; I'd love to see what the file looks like.

Shaymin · « **Reply #10 on:** June 25, 2011, 06:14:09 PM »

The call centre manager reports it to the director of Customer Service who would mention it at the next board meeting. Where it goes from there...

UncleBob · « **Reply #11 on:** June 25, 2011, 06:41:37 PM »

Quote from: MegaByte on June 25, 2011, 06:12:25 PM

They supposedly make a log every time they get a call like this; I'd love to see what the file looks like.

I snuck into Nintendo HQ and took this photo just for you...

Ceric · « **Reply #12 on:** June 25, 2011, 06:56:55 PM »

Not full enough.

A writing campaign to NoA then when that doesn't work an annoyance campaign to NCL directly. Annoy the people who make the decisions. If you could annoy the Board itself as long as it wasn't a lost they do it to stop being annoyed.

UncleBob · « **Reply #13 on:** June 25, 2011, 07:06:43 PM »

Quote from: Ceric on June 25, 2011, 06:56:55 PM

Not full enough.

That's just the ones who bothered to write anything down.

Mop it up · « **Reply #14 on:** June 25, 2011, 11:49:10 PM »

Quote from: Shaymin on June 25, 2011, 04:14:56 PM

I would have joined in but I'm in the wrong country.

Amazon doesn't ship to Canada? I thought they covered all of North America.

Shaymin · « **Reply #15 on:** June 26, 2011, 12:13:50 AM »

Not for this preorder. And Amazon.ca doesn't have a listing for it.

Sundoulos · « **Reply #16 on:** June 26, 2011, 12:17:22 AM »

I wonder if NOA's send a request to Amazon to take down its listing for Monado.

kdognumba1 · « **Reply #17 on:** June 26, 2011, 06:18:58 AM »

Hey everybody glad to see there's news of this going on here!

Just wanted to let you all know not to get discouraged and that there are many out there trying to get this localized. A lot of ground is being made as 1-UP, GoNintendo, gamrFeed, Kotaku, and IGN have all been covering this. I've been trying to make rounds and spread the word myself and highly recommend that any of you willing that may go to other forums and sites that may not have as many users or may be unaware of whats going on, to start threads there and get people informed. The more who know of whats going on right now the better the chances we have at getting these games localized will be!

BeautifulShy · « **Reply #18 on:** June 28, 2011, 08:53:19 PM »

Well for those in Canada they now have a store which is taking preorders for these three titles.The store is Video Games Plus.There is the preorder link below.

http://vgplus.blogspot.com/2011/06/were-joining-operation-rainfall.html

bustin98 · « **Reply #19 on:** June 28, 2011, 11:03:34 PM »

Is there any possibility of these titles being ported to WiiU in North America? An easy way to add 3 more titles at launch...

grantimus · « **Reply #20 on:** June 28, 2011, 11:35:34 PM »

I'm here to encourage anyone here who wants to see these three phenomenal games released Stateside (and Canadaside for that matter) to please visit the Operation Rainfall website and follow the guidelines for this campaign.

So many "Internet Petitions" are started and forgotten about. Every one is pessimistic, and nothing ever happens. This is different. This started as a snail mail campaign, and hundreds, or thousands, of hand-written paper letters can't be ignored so easily. Plus, you have the opportunity to put your money where your mouth is. If you want Xenoblade, preorder the game on Amazon! The response to this effort has been particularly effective! Lastly, don't forget to let Nintendo know via Facebook and Twitter that you want to see these games. Tell them loudly and often!

http://oprainfall.blogspot.com/

We can't do it without the help of every individual. Do you want the games or not?

BeautifulShy · « **Reply #21 on:** July 02, 2011, 03:00:42 AM »

Well Nintendojo recently had an interview with one of the members of Operation Rainfall. Here is a link to the interview.

http://www.nintendojo.com/features/interviews/interview-operation-rainfall

Basically the long and short of the interview is that to not give up with all the feedback to Nintendo and if Operation Rainfall is successful then they will work on getting other games not released in the United States to come over as well. Think about things like Disaster:Day of Crisis and Fatal Frame 4 making out to the west as well as other titles making it to the states. Use that as a motivation moving forward.

Mop it up · « **Reply #22 on:** July 05, 2011, 06:51:02 PM »

Looks like it's dropped all the way down to number 218 on Amazon. I guess everyone is already giving up.

MegaByte · « **Reply #23 on:** July 05, 2011, 07:00:39 PM »

Or more specifically, since that ranking represents current numbers, the operation isn't doing enough to expand their numbers / get the word out and engage people.

Mop it up · « **Reply #24 on:** July 05, 2011, 07:33:44 PM »

Probably because they seem to be taking the "currently no plans" response as the final word.

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Author Topic: Snail mail letter campaign for Last Story, Xenoblade and Pandora's Tower. (Read 10030 times)