Topic: Club Nintendo Rewards. ^_^

I have a piece of physical merchandise you might be interested in.

(Yeah, I was underwhelmed too, but this is a bit of an overreaction. )

Is G&W really that bad? The only games that I want I already have, so it may still be worth getting for me just for the extra coins and ddp. DKC Returns 3D might be ok but I don't know that I'd even play it. Too many other games on the 3DS already and I've been using it solely for Pokémon lately. Also got some Rayman game while it was on sale a week or whatever ago and haven't even started on it.

Do we need to pile on? The point has been made.

@Knuckles
Can i get Wario Land two for my friend? My miiverse name Justlink1

@justinlink You're misunderstanding my offer, you give me a elite reward, I give you a CN reward from this month, or next month for that matter since the Elite rewards don't expire until almost the end of august.

@Knuckles Ur probably to late then. Almost everybody would have got their prize by now

@justinlink I understand that, but I have my reward, I'm happy. I am just trying to offer an alternative for anyone who doesn't like the elite rewards but can't get the monthly rewards this month. if they don't have the coins.

Quick question: I can close my 3DS while DKCR3D is downloading, right?

Yes. Just make sure you clicked the download later option.

Ahhhhhh oh nooo. I clicked download now. Oh well, I will leave it open on the charger. Thank you I guess ti goes without saying, I picked DKCR3D as my platinum reward. 17k blocks though, ouch

gammer is great!!!

@sleepycrossing:
You can set the download to "download later" if you want.

@SleepingCrossing actually you can download the game while your 3DS is closed after selecting download now. Tapping download later will make the game start downloading whenever the 3DS is in sleep mode. (Also while it is on the download screen, you can tap download later on the bottom screen.)

Btw, Wii U games (at least Game & Wario) appear to add to digital deluxe. I just got 399 points.

It isn't quite that simplistic. If Nintendo did like so many people are saying and give us $20 for the eshop, then that is 20 dollars per person that they have lost. This is for a company already losing money. That is just plain idiotic.

Instead, they offered some high quality games that have been out for a while and the sales are down. They give those for free, and maybe someone gets Game and Wario that wouldn't have before like I did, it with a friend, then they buy it. That was pure profit.

Or someone gets Donkey Kong Country Returns for the 3DS that wouldn't have before, likes it, and gets Tropical Freeze on Wii U. Pure otherwise missed profit.

Maybe they are thinking about bringing Mother 3 to the US but the sales so far put them right on the fence as to whether it is profitable or not. They offer Mother 2 (Earthbound) for free, get the feedback from the survey, and either translate it and bring it over (pure otherwise missed profit) or find that it probably wouldn't sell, saving millions.

Someone else just missed out on gold or platinum, sees the games they missed out on and get jealous because they were so close and goes ahead and buys one or two. Or they don't notice the email or just don't pick their game in time. Again they go ahead and pick up a couple. Pure otherwise missed profit.

In rare instances someone will pick up a game from this that they would have otherwise bought, but that is going to be far more rare than one of the above (or several other) scenarios above. In all cases if they give credit they miss out on profit.

Physical items are pure revenue losses too, because no one that didn't get it through the club would have (or have had a chance to) buy the item, and they cost real money, even for people who just order something because there isn't anything they really want. This does not apply to the lo the digital games that we got.

They picked the games that they did for a reason. Every one of them. It is as basic as you can get for marketing (think Best Buy is doing BOGO in the US next week because they love you? No, they are getting you in the store to help their profits).

Want your crappy stuffed animal gift or calendar next year? Do everything you can to make sure that Nintendo makes a profit this year. Otherwise they have stuffed animals and calendars at Barnes and Noble, go knock yourself out.

^Is this guy a market director or something? He hit it out of the park!^

The trouble is this is supposed to be a "special" reward we're getting, not the dusty games they can't sell, so this is just going to infuriate the people that actually bought all those games, which really doesn't make sense for a customer loyalty program to treat it's best customers the worst. And with no exclusive rewards, no one's going to be afraid to miss out on getting elite status anymore, because the reward won't be anything they can't just easily buy on the eShop, so no need to buy new games to get the coins when you can just buy used and save your money. Even though I'm not one of the rare people that bought all those games, this now motivates me to buy fewer Nintendo games in case they later offer them as the elite rewards, because I wouldn't want to be in the position of the people that religiously bought all of these games only to end up with no reward because of it. Overall, I think this has to be a fail for Nintendo if it's motivating people to buy fewer games overall. If there had been at least one exclusive reward, even if it was just a simple digital download like Doc Louis's Punch-Out or that Japanese Club Nintendo Picross game, I would have thought this was the best year ever though, because for your average person there is a decent selection of rewards, but there's just nothing to really motivate people that it's a necessity to achieve elite status anymore.

@iphys So, we get rid of club nintendo and have no rewards at all to keep from angering people?

I can't decide which one to pick, the one I want the most is NES Remix, but I know if I redeem it I'll regret later for not getting a $30 game instead

Honestly, the way CN is now, Nintendo would probably be better off without it. At first I felt motivated to get elite status to get special things like Doc Louis's Punch-Out, and even some of the regular rewards on the web site were cool enough to make you want to earn a lot of coins to get them. The way it's degenerated, I stopped buying Nintendo's VC games out of fear they'd be offered as rewards, especially since there aren't any new physical rewards for me to want to spend my coins on, so what else will I do with them if I buy all the VC I want and then all they're offering me are the games I don't want? Now, I'm going to be afraid of buying any Nintendo game $10-$40 in value in case it's a platinum reward for next year. Any customer loyalty program that makes you afraid to buy the company's products is clearly doing something wrong.

iphys is speaking a lot of truth.