Pilotwings and StarTropics II among this month's Club Nintendo games.
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This month's Club Nintendo rewards are Zoda's Revenge: StarTropics II, Pilotwings, Art Academy: First Semester, and Mario vs. Donkey Kong: Minis March Again!.
Zoda's Revenge: StarTropics II was one of the later NES games released in 1994. Like many other games, the story consists of an alien invasion you must save the world from. This time though, you have to travel through history to do it. This can be yours for 150 coins and can be played on the Wii or Wii Mode on the Wii U.
The SNES classic Pilotwings is the next reward. For 150 coins you can fly planes, skydive, and be a penguin diving from tall heights. It is playable on the Wii and Wii Mode on the Wii U. You can also then upgrade this copy to the Wii U version for $1.50 on the eShop.
Art Academy: First Semester is filled with lessons on how to be an artist. Fun fact, Salvador Dali used this game to learn how to paint. Though it is a DSiWare title, to get it through Club Nintendo you have to download it on the 3DS eShop. It is only 150 coins.
Finally is Mario vs. Donkey Kong: Minis March Again!. In this entry of the series, Donkey Kong kidnaps Pauline, most likely due to self confidence issues that made him feel he was not worthy of Peach. Conduct a group of Mario toys in order to take down the banana eating menace. You can download it on the 3DS eShop for 150 coins.
Well, if you are going to offer rewards for loyal consumers who take time to register these products and provide feedback through repetitive surveys, you could atleast provide rewards that make that effort not feel so wasted.Meanwhile there are people like me who are considering going to gamestop and raiding the used game shelf in search of unused club nintendo pins.
It's not like they are giving something for nothing. They are giving back to those who support their products and provide feedback. After this recent Platinum award, I haven't had the slightest motivation to even register a single thing towards platinum this year as I don't really see the point in participating if it's not worth my time and efforts.
Well, if you are going to offer rewards for loyal consumers who take time to register these products and provide feedback through repetitive surveys, you could atleast provide rewards that make that effort not feel so wasted.I disagree because they're entirely optional and they don't require much more than a minimal effort. You can expel even less effort by just randomly choosing options and entering gibberish into the fields. I don't write a graduate thesis for each answer, but I respond honestly. If you're time is so valuable that you can't take the time to complete those surveys, you probably shouldn't be playing videogames to begin with.
It's not like they are giving something for nothing. They are giving back to those who support their products and provide feedback. After this recent Platinum award, I haven't had the slightest motivation to even register a single thing towards platinum this year as I don't really see the point in participating if it's not worth my time and efforts.Then, don't. That is certainly you're right. If you don't find the rewards worthwhile, you already know what to do (or not do).
Personally, I'll be saving my coins for future offers.And so you should. That's really the best way to go about it. I've only redeemed three rewards from Club Nintendo: the gold Nunchuk, the 3DS game card case, and the pouch I carrying my 3DS XL in. All worth it in my book. That's about $50 I saved for items in stores, just for buying games I wanted anyway.
Meanwhile there are people like me who are considering going to gamestop and raiding the used game shelf in search of unused club nintendo pins.If you don't mind be a total dick, you can probably get them from new games that GameStop guts and puts on shelves.
Godammit, Nintendo. Why aren't my rewards better? I demand better things from this generous offer that other first party companies don't have on their consoles. The world owes me things.
... I feel entitled to complain, ...
... I feel entitled to complain, ...
But after you get "paid" for your effort in Club Nintendo coins, doesn't that entitlement go away? After all, you received exactly what was promised: any disappointment beyond that point stems from your own faulty expectations/valuations causing. (Only half kidding here.)
I agree with Adrock though. If you don't like the rewards program, just don't participate. Don't let some virtual coins and potential rewards influence your purchasing decisions, instead earn some good karma by giving away any codes you end up with to people who do get excited about such things.
but i started the program when the rewards were good but i had no coins for it....i have barely spend my coins due to i keep waiting when those good old times will come back, or they upload other games.
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