Topic: Final Club Nintendo Rewards Revealed

[Triforce Hermit]

Wonderful 101 is 600 coins.

I don't know about anyone else, but I've been able to do stuff on Club Nintendo perfectly fine aside from awful load times for the rewards page.

[Adrock]

I stupidly didn't register my remaining games last week so I tried last night with the site choking on itself. Here's a hint that may help: try logging in around 4am EST. Traffic is much lighter so I was able to register my games with minimal issues. It was still slower than normal and I had to deal with a few snags. Still, I hit Platinum about an hour and a half ago. I still have to do the post-game surveys in a couple days. Of course, it helps that I was awake anyway since my shift starts at 5am now (it's a lot more awesome than it sounds).

I'm a big supporter of Club Nintendo as a rewards program. Still, I can admit that it functioned poorly under stress. I get the impression that the physical rewards will not run out. Based on the oddly egregious shipping time, it seems like Nintendo is taking all the orders then manufacturing the items which (ignoring that it would have been nice if it did that before) is the fairest way of handling the end of the Club Nintendo rewards program. This way, everyone has a shot of scoring physical rewards.

Besides Paper Mario, I haven't decided what rewards I want. Right now, I have about 1300 coins. I have the post-game surveys on five games, and I may still have another game or two to register.

[broodwars]

24 hours later, the site is still down, though I managed to redeem a single reward this morning. Sadly, I have 3-4 more to try to get out of this broken website.

[ejamer]

Why the hell is Star Fox 64 3D more coins than 3D Land, NSMB2 or DKCR3D?

Physical copies of Star Fox 64 3D are out of print and currently in demand. Same for Kid Icarus. Not sure that is a reasonable justification... but NoA is very familiar with the idea of limiting supply to increase demand.


Curiosity: Are the prices on eShop identical for the different games?

[Leo13]

Does anyone know how many coins Wonderful 101 is worth? If I get it, I think it'll give me just enough to get something else.

600

[ejamer]

24 hours later, the site is still down, though I managed to redeem a single reward this morning. Sadly, I have 3-4 more to try to get out of this broken website.

You won't like the answer, but if you really want to get on just wake up a bit earlier.  At 7am Atlantic time the site worked perfectly - you avoid competing traffic and everything runs exactly as it's supposed to.  Obviously that's not convenient... but if you really want to get in it'll work.


Interesting to note that it seemed as if no physical items have sold out yet. Many of the new items had a warning that images weren't final and that shipping estimates were 3-5 months. Makes me wonder if they haven't been created yet and all orders now are just preorders so they know how many to make.  (This might not apply for a few older items like posters.)

[Shaymin]

Why the hell is Star Fox 64 3D more coins than 3D Land, NSMB2 or DKCR3D?

Physical copies of Star Fox 64 3D are out of print and currently in demand. Same for Kid Icarus. Not sure that is a reasonable justification... but NoA is very familiar with the idea of limiting supply to increase demand.


Curiosity: Are the prices on eShop identical for the different games?

Star Fox is $40 w/NSMB2, 3D Land is $30 and DKCR is $35. So the real outlier is NSMB2.

(Note that on Wii U, W101 is $30 and Wii Party U is $50.)

[broodwars]

24 hours later, the site is still down, though I managed to redeem a single reward this morning. Sadly, I have 3-4 more to try to get out of this broken website.

You won't like the answer, but if you really want to get on just wake up a bit earlier.  At 7am Atlantic time the site worked perfectly - you avoid competing traffic and everything runs exactly as it's supposed to.  Obviously that's not convenient... but if you really want to get in it'll work.

So it seems. While the site was still continuously crashing, I was just now able to order 3/4 items I was intending to purchase from Club Nintendo. I'm going to sit on DL's Punch out till I have 25 more coins so I have enough for the Majora's Bag, too. No one should have to fight that hard to make a site perform its basic function, but I got the main things I care about submitted.

[ejamer]

Am I the only one who thinks it's kind of awesome that the Greeting Cards are still there? Weren't those one of the first rewards offered? Yet even when there were no other physical rewards available they continued to sit and wait to be picked. Nobody wanted them... nobody.


Or am I wrong? Maybe it's that they were so popular, NoA chose to continually reorder and keep them in stock despite rabid sales?

[JRokujuushi]

I'm not sure I trust the coin counter. I logged in yesterday, it said I had 300 coins until gold.  I registered Captain Toad, it said I had 30 coins until gold.  I highly doubt Captain Toad is worth 270 coins.  I tried again a few hours later, it said I still needed 300 for gold again.  Haven't tried it yet today, so no telling what it says I need now.

[Mop it up]

Or am I wrong? Maybe it's that they were so popular, NoA chose to continually reorder and keep them in stock despite rabid sales?

I choose to believe this.

[nickmitch]

The real reward is over-crowded servers.

[pokepal148]

Yeah... My picture could be posted again to respond to your newest post, since it's basically the same argument only reworded differently.

Since when has redundancy stopped these forums?

Very true! I do very much agree with you, but I think after the 80th (I know I'm exaggerating on the number) time, your argument becomes increasingly less powerful as it goes on. It gets to the point where people will just skim your posts, no matter if they are full of truth and facts or not, and miss out on your thoughts. It'll be, like, "oh, here's broodwars complaining about Nintendo for the 219th time" instead of them focusing on your actual argument.

Broodwars = Ian Sane 2.0

[Khushrenada]

Yeah... My picture could be posted again to respond to your newest post, since it's basically the same argument only reworded differently.

Since when has redundancy stopped these forums?

Broodwars is right! Since when has redundancy stopped these forums?

[broodwars]

Yeah... My picture could be posted again to respond to your newest post, since it's basically the same argument only reworded differently.

Since when has redundancy stopped these forums?

Very true! I do very much agree with you, but I think after the 80th (I know I'm exaggerating on the number) time, your argument becomes increasingly less powerful as it goes on. It gets to the point where people will just skim your posts, no matter if they are full of truth and facts or not, and miss out on your thoughts. It'll be, like, "oh, here's broodwars complaining about Nintendo for the 219th time" instead of them focusing on your actual argument.

Broodwars = Ian Sane 2.0

And Pokepal = Ninhuggles (aka "Pro") 2.0.

[Khushrenada]

Now you're giving Pokepal148 too much credit.

[UncleBob]

Got in tonight.  Ordered my Smash V2 Posters, did 14 Post-Plays, ordered the Animal Crossing cards... yay!

Now, something like 16 post-plays left... and whatever I figure out to do with the remaining coins. Probably buy more games, get the extra coins and order the 2015 card case...

[Soren]

[marvel_moviefan_2012]

there is literally one game left for sale that has a code that I would be interested in buying, Mario Kart 8 and I am not going to rush out and pay the 60 bucks just to get enough coins to download one more NES game I can live without. I spent all my coins I had saved up on getting an NES Remix 2 T-Shirt. I am actually pretty happy with that even though it doesn't exactly fit.

[Shaymin]

It's $45 on the eShop until noon EST tomorrow.

[lolmonade]

Right now is the 3rd time i've tried since the new rewards have been announced, and the farthest I get is to a load screen between the login page & getting into my account.


Basically the only way i've read that people could reliably log-into Club nintendo is between 1AM - 6 AM EST, which I can't do.  I know it's not urgent for me to get in, redeem more coins, and select the digital games I want, but it's a bit disappointing that in 2 days since the games have been announced, it's been impossible to even do the bare minimum.


Whatever rewards program they change to in the future, they need to make sure it's not tied to a website, if this is how well they're going to maintain the website.

[mustbeburt]

Can anyone explain why the Wii version of Super Metrioid is 250 coins, and the WiiU version is 200 coins?  What gives?

[Leo13]

Can anyone explain why the Wii version of Super Metrioid is 250 coins, and the WiiU version is 200 coins?  What gives?

They're showing loyalty to their customers that have purchased their newer console

[Mop it up]

Yeah... My picture could be posted again to respond to your newest post, since it's basically the same argument only reworded differently.

Since when has redundancy stopped these forums?

I hate to agree with broodwars, but he's got a point here. Since when has redundancy stopped these forums?

[Khushrenada]

Yeah... My picture could be posted again to respond to your newest post, since it's basically the same argument only reworded differently.

Since when has redundancy stopped these forums?

I hate to agree with broodwars, but he's got a point here. Since when has redundancy stopped these forums?

I hat to agree with Mop it up but she's got a point here. Since when has redundancy stopped these forums?