Topic: My Nintendo Now Live Worldwide: Miitomo Launched As Well

[UncleBob]

I have all my Nintendo accounts linked, but I can't use my Mii in Miitomo because I didn't allow my Mii to be copied. Okay, Nintendo.

So I go into both Wii U and 3DS to allow my Mii to be copied then go back to Miitomo. I can't use my Mii in Miitomo because I didn't allow my Mii to be copied. Okay, Nintendo.

I try again 20 minutes later. I can't use my Mii in Miitomo because I didn't allow my Mii to be copied. Okay, Nintendo.

I'm going to lie down for a while.

Not the perfect solution, but go into Mii Maker on one of your systems, get the QR code for your Mii and use that to import it into Miitomo.

[Caterkiller]

Don't be a boodie head ShyGuy, I'll be your friend!

If anyone uses twitter find me @wushumatt.

I signed up for twitter years go only to harass Sakurai about Ridley. Guess it'll get put to use now.

[ejamer]

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I fully agree with your sentiment, but I'm not sure I agree with all of your points.


* Physical games aren't eligible -- yet, but that could (hopefully will) change based on comments made
* points expire after six months instead of two years -- a downer, and definitely shorter than I'd like; would be nice if the upped it to a year, but I can understand how they might feel a bit burned after some massive cash-outs that happened at the end of the old Club Nintendo
* some rewards will be offered for only a short period of time -- this happened in the old Club Nintendo with limited physical goods that quickly disappeared, rotating digital offers, and occasional special deals
* no physical rewards -- the old Club Nintendo had already (essentially) transitioned to this with digital downloads
* slow website -- the old site was also slow, and would frequently go down with any significant traffic; considering things just started a lot of people are probably accessing the site I suspect it's actually better than before
* some of the points earning stuff requires doing social media garbage -- I hate this too, but others don't mind; I guess giving "more" ways to earn points isn't bad, and it's probably not worse than doing surveys... it is a huge turn-off for me personally though


Even though I'm pretty down on the new club, it's not really "worse" than the old one.  A lot of similarities with some natural evolution towards what they ask of consumers.  (Unfortunately none of those changes go in directions that appeal to me. C'est la vie!)

[supermario2k]

What if you already own every first party Wii U game out? There isn't anything for me to purchase until NX comes out so no incentive for me to sign up right now if things will expire before I make the switch.

[Fatty The Hutt]

Don't be a boodie head ShyGuy, I'll be your friend!

If anyone uses twitter find me @wushumatt.

I signed up for twitter years go only to harass Sakurai about Ridley. Guess it'll get put to use now.

Now following you. Please follow me back  @Sensei_K77 because, you know, Miitomo.
Thx

I don't have any friends...

ShyGuy, do you have a twitter?

[Adrock]

Not the perfect solution, but go into Mii Maker on one of your systems, get the QR code for your Mii and use that to import it into Miitomo.

I tried that. It didn't work. I ended up just recreating my Mii. I'm going to justify this by saying that my Mii needed to be updated anyway. I haven't had long hair in like four years.

Anyway, Miitomo is strangely addicting. It's a shame you can't import your Nintendo Network ID friends.

[broodwars]

If Miitomo won't load on your Android phone, try downloading the latest update from the Play store. Mind's working now. 

[Mop it up]

* slow website -- the old site was also slow, and would frequently go down with any significant traffic; considering things just started a lot of people are probably accessing the site I suspect it's actually better than before

The problems with the old Club Nintendo site were wildly overblown, and the main time that it had stability issues was during the last few months, when Nintendo no longer bothered to maintain the site. Before the announcement of the shutdown, I never had any issues with the site, and it wasn't slow for me. Of course, since the stability problems were during its final months, it's unfortunately become a memory that sticks into people's minds.

Even still, since being able to access the site on a given day isn't essential, I'll gladly take rare occurrences of site outage over a site that's slow-as-molasses, as the latter is a problem all of the time instead of very rarely. The slowness seems to be caused by a lot of unnecessary graphics and animation that it uses, so I don't expect it to change much with less traffic.

* no physical rewards -- the old Club Nintendo had already (essentially) transitioned to this with digital downloads

They were still offering some physical rewards towards the end of things, such as the sweet 3/DS game card case. Some is better than none.

* some rewards will be offered for only a short period of time -- this happened in the old Club Nintendo with limited physical goods that quickly disappeared, rotating digital offers, and occasional special deals

That's true, they did cycle through the digital games. I hope they do that same thing with this new site as well, to give people another chance at certain rewards. Still, being the same isn't better, and better is what I was hoping for out of the new MyNintendo.

I know, I know, in the grand scheme of things it doesn't really matter, it's just an optional rewards program that offers only bonuses, no real negatives still. Just something I like to talk about.

[ShyGuy]

I don't have twitter. I have Facebook, but reserve it for people I have met face to face.

[azeke]

The problems with the old Club Nintendo site were wildly overblown

European Club Nintendo was completely different from NA and that site (or more like a bunch of sites) WAS a complete cluster.

Club Nintemdo itself was on one address, reward catalog on another address and wii points shop was on third address. And you had to login into each of them separately.

[TOPHATANT123]

The club Nintendo survey's were complete garbage, not the worst I've seen but definitely up there.

[Mop it up]

Rewarding people for physical purchases is still something that could happen with the new account system, at least according to Bill Trinen:

“Initially, the focus is going to be on digital,” Trinen says, “but we do have a lot of ideas for what roll out down the road for packaged goods or real world interactions. I think we’ll continue to look at My Nintendo and how we can grow that as a rewards program, so that it really is trying to encompass all the different touch points of how people come into contact with Nintendo products.”

Looking around the 'Net, it appears this quote is referring to the possibility of physical rewards, not physical game purchases earning points.

[nickmitch]

It sounds like physical purchases to me.  The last sentence reads as if they want to reward you for the different ways you interact with Nintendo, i.e., digital and retail purchases.

[Oedo]

Rewarding people for physical purchases is still something that could happen with the new account system, at least according to Bill Trinen:

“Initially, the focus is going to be on digital,” Trinen says, “but we do have a lot of ideas for what roll out down the road for packaged goods or real world interactions. I think we’ll continue to look at My Nintendo and how we can grow that as a rewards program, so that it really is trying to encompass all the different touch points of how people come into contact with Nintendo products.”

Looking around the 'Net, it appears this quote is referring to the possibility of physical rewards, not physical game purchases earning points.

A prominent Nintendo news aggregator misinterpreted the quote that way and presented it in that context on their site, so I'm not surprised a lot of people think that. The original source of the comments (an IGN interview that went up on Thursday) explicitly refers to physical purchases though.

Nintendo’s New rewards Program Doesn’t Reward Physical Purchases... Yet

Followed by those comments from Trinen. But hey, hopefully we do end up getting both rewards for physical purchases and physical rewards themselves.

[Mop it up]

I saw that, but it doesn't show the actual question that was asked of Bill. Is there a raw, unedited version of this interview anywhere so we can see what was actually asked?

[Kairon]

Good golly I've already got more gold points than I think I'll be able to spend before they expire.

Obviously I'd KILL for some good physical rewards, but barring that I'm hoping for some good ways to get free DLC (Mii Fighter costumes in Smash? More Pikmin 3 Map Packs?), ways to spend gold points on Miitomo Drop tickets (a good way to drain excess gold points, and it really don't cost Nintendo that much to give!), or a 30% off coupon on a Fire Emblem Fates download.

Also maybe some ways to exchange for free Badge Arcade plays too... I really am having trouble figuring out how I'll ever redeem all these gold points before expiration the way my spending habits are.

[Oedo]

I saw that, but it doesn't show the actual question that was asked of Bill. Is there a raw, unedited version of this interview anywhere so we can see what was actually asked?

Far as I can tell, that was it, but maybe they touch on it more in their Nintendo podcast.