Feature: Breaking Down the My Nintendo Loyalty Economy, Again

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as an aside, the day after miitomo and my nintendo went active, i got an email from psn telling me that the period for redeeming my sony rewards have been extended by a year. i get the sense that this was a response to nintendo. i totally forgot about them, for one thing.

MANDATORY NX COMMENT: this might just be the most crowded gaming season in a looooong time. e3 might see 3 new consoles, the ps4.5, the xbox one point five, and the nx obviously. then you have the vr players as rift, and vive going maximum showing, then psvr making it's presence felt. the my nintendo program is going to be vital. the company that screws their players the least will win.

Alot of "seems" inside the article.. well, I encourage everyone to do their own math based on this:

Discounts - Marked 'Just for You', so may vary per user
20% off Mario Kart 7 (3DS) – 700 Platinum Points
20% off Yoshi's Woolly World (Wii U) - 600 Platinum Points
20% off Pullblox World (Wii U) - 150 Platinum Points
20% off The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds (3DS) - 300 Platinum Points

Try to find any of these games MORE expensive around than in the Eshop and then try to make sense of the "rewards" ... have fun

Please, I understand the people who are bound to wheelchairs or have other disabilities that restraints them from leaving their chair, but for the others, these are not rewards. Someone on Reddit should have a look at your "article" or publish it straight on the official Nintendo site. I thought you are supposed to help ... well done.

Turns out Flipnote Studio 3D is available for free to North American users too (until the end of the month). I thought I'd never be able to get it.

I'm still really disappointed that physical copies don't count for Gold Coins. I'm starting to buy Wii U games on Amazon because of Prime making them a much better price for what I feel they're worth ($47.99 instead of $59.99), but of course I get nothing even though I still bought their game... It's honestly awful.
I'm not sure if it's worth it honestly, especially considering how awful the Wii U is in terms of storage space.

At the very least I exclusively buy games digitally on 3DS since 32GB is plenty of space for how small games tend to be (and even the bigger ones don't make much of a dent).

I hope they bring back physical rewards. There was some really cool stuff you could get on Club Nintendo, but at the moment My Nintendo is completely digital-only. Physical rewards in my opinion is far better than measly discounts.

Actually you can get 120 platinum coins on a weekly basis. You can get 30 each for signing in to My Nintendo and to your Nintendo Account on the Nintendo website, both of which aren't listed as missions for some reason, but they do appear in your points history.

I don't really care for the "just for you" rewards. I don't have access to the discounted Tomodachi Life offer. Every discount they are offering to me is of a game I already own. Additionally, In the future I'd like to see physical rewards. Other than these 2 complaints I think the service is pretty cool. It looks nice and it appears to work well unlike some Nintendo websites in the past which have had issues with handling large traffic.

Marked 'Just for You', so may vary per user

I understand this with regard to what's available, but what I don't understand is why the actual discount, or point requirement is different. Here is mine that differs from the list made here (not including differing games/discounts, just the discount amount or point requirement). I'm in NA, btw...

15% off Yoshi's Woolly World (Wii U) - 750 Platinum Points
15% off TLoZ: A Link Between Worlds (3DS) - 600 Platinum Points
15% off Super Mario 3D Land (3DS) - 450 Platinum Points

30% off Splatoon (Wii U) - 140 Gold Points
New Super Luigi U (Wii U) – 170 Gold Points

So, many of the discounts are for less, but priced higher in points (ALBW is 5% less and double the points). SM3DL is an odd ball, that while it's 25% less, it's not based on gold points, but platinum, the currency that doesn't require buying anything to get. Here is a list of those I'm offered and not offered by comparison to the list in this article...

Not offered

20% off Mario Kart 7 (3DS) – 700 Platinum Points
20% off Pullblox World (Wii U) - 150 Platinum Points

40% off The Wonderful 101 (Wii U) - 120 Gold Points
50% off Metroid: Other M (Wii U) - 60 Gold Points
40% off Tomodachi Life (3DS) - 100 Gold Points
50% off Mario & Donkey Kong: Minis on the Move - 30 Gold Points

Offered

15% off TLoZ: The Wind Waker HD (Wii U) - 750 Platinum Points
15% off Animal Crossing: New Leaf (3DS) - 450 Platinum Points

30% off Captain Toad Treasure Trackers (Wii U) - 100 Gold Points
30% off TLoZ: Majora's Mask 3D (3DS) - 100 Gold Points
30% off Ultimate NES Remix (Wii U) - 70 Gold Points
30% off Punch-Out!!! (Wii U) - 50 Gold Points
Donkey Kong Country Returns (Wii U) - 230 Gold Points

I'm really disappointed in My Nintendo..
Disappointed that physical copies of the games don't count for Gold Coins.
Disappointed because I want physical rewards and more choices of games to claim as rewards.
Disappointed the Coin rewards will take awhile to achieve and you have only 6 months to spend My Nintendo points before they expire, it isn't long enough!

I miss Club Nintendo

The Platinum rewards seems spot-on for me. Exactly as I would expect, good rewards for a little bit of effort behind the scenes.
The gold rewards are horrible and I hate them. The ramp up instead of down means that anything $4.99 doesn't even get you a single point. Additionally, there's no tax which means that I'm basically banned from getting 70 or 80 points at once. Additionally it seems as though all of my rewards get me a grand total of 15% off of games, both Plat and Gold rewards. Nintendo is really trying to get my incentive to buy digital when I need to spend $120 just to turn around and get $4 off at 3DS game I already own.
All I would ask is a few things. Rewards for digital purchases as well as physical. Below $5 purchases getting you Five Points. Physical reward possible although I can see that used sparingly. And most certainly, better rewards for spending money.

I don't wanna spend my points because what if they add better games/deals in the future?! I need to know!

@GH05T

Pretty much agreed.

@Butter only 6 months to spend before they expire, careful holding out to long..

@Butter I'll wait until right before the cutoff date (where points expire) and spend them all then unless I see something I'm sure is worth spending them on. As of right now I don't see anything worth spending points on.

@sWiTcHeRoO This is a pretty big deal breaker for me too. I love buying physical. As long as the game is bought new in the retail space (and not out-of-print/third party means), I'm still supporting the company. I don't understand the choice to not include point vouchers in physical releases. I don't think used games are going to be including any unclaimed codes in my experience (never had unused Club Nintendo points in any used games I've purchased) so I don't think they're worried about the second hand market. I'm not sure if they're actively trying to phase out customer interest in physical copies with this decision, but the tradeoff is just not worth it to me to switch to digital just to earn points for this reward system.

@KIREEK
I believe this is their way of competing with retail.

Normally, there is zero incentive to buy a game digitally when you can get it from Best Buy or Amazon for 20% off. And the problem is they can't discount their digital games below that of retailers or they will undercut them.

This program is clearly designed to provide some incentive to buying digital. Since they can't straight up undercut retailers, they provide re-wards and discounts instead.

For me, this is not an incentive to switch to digital. The benefits of physical are too great. However, this is good for digital only games- which I buy plenty of. In fact, I have a second 3DS for on the go and all my games on that are digital (I own them physically also, but buy my faves again digitally on the smaller, more portable New 3DS for 24/7 access).

In the end this program is better than club Nintendo and worse than club Nintendo. It just depends on how you look at it. Club Nintendo let you hold onto your coins much longer and gave you coins for physical releases- but the rewards were absolute garbage for pretty much the last 5 years or so. And any time there was the rare gem you could redeem your coins for, it would sell out overnight before you ever had a chance to get it.

I think people have a tendency to remember the program as being better than it was, but I remember a lot of frustrations with the crap rewards and anything good selling out and the website freezing up for 72 straight hours anytime they put something good on there. Although I did manage to get a few nice things from the service.

@Miss_Dark
In fairness, the 3DS uses standard SD cards and has basically no issues with space. Wii U has limited space, yes, but keep in mind that it released well over three years ago before this program was in place. They can't exactly do anything to change that now. But I think this is confirmation that Nintendo IS CHANGING. They're making smart phone apps and a new loyalty program that updates in real time...

If your gripe is that there's not enough space on one of their two platforms, I think you should just hold off until the end of the year because I doubt NX will have that problem. Or, buy an external HDD. For $10 with 3DS or $40 with Wii U, you can have unlimited space on either system. It's not like you don't have the option of expanding your memory to suit your needs. Of course, imo it's pretty much mandatory. I can't imagine how anyone could get by without expanding their memory tbh.

Already redeemed Mario and DK discount. Only game on the list I don't have or are willing to get reduced.

"Visiting Nintendo's official site from the My Nintendo menu and clicking through a few pages also earns points."

I've never heard of this one. I tried it and it didn't work :/ Also I looked online and nobody has said anything about it as far as I can tell. Also the max daily platinum coins you can get from Miitomo is only 35, not 50+.

@LordGeovanni I agree with everything you said. Well put.
And I know it may be hard to believe in this day and age but not everyone uses social media.

I've already redeemed Metroid Fusion for 60 gold coins.I only spent just under £15.I upgraded 3 VC titles from Wii and bought Starfox,Fire Emblem Sacred Stones and Paper Monsters on sale.This month I'll be downloading 3 of the Selects which will net me another 90 gold coins,enough for Mario 64.Starfox Zero/Guard another70 which may be enough for another free game when they refresh the rewards.It's working out pretty well for me so far.

I would also like to see gold coins rewarded for physical purchases. If they include this in future, I wonder how / if it will differ much from GAME. That's a good alternative in the mean time for physical purchases. They get plenty of special editions of new titles.

As has been said: this gives players an incentive to buy digital, but they're still being asked to buy comparatively expensive digital games so they can get discounts to make digital games less expensive, but... even with the discounts, these games are still quite expensive when compared to physical.

I guess it's some sort of an incentive though, where none existed before, so it might be enough to push a few more people over the digital edge.

The 6 month thing is naff though. As a hoarder, that really put me off bothering with the thing.

I was actually hoping to get the discount for Tomodachi Life.

@GH05T same feelings here...

I got around 900 platinum points. It's going to take a little while of doing the daily and weekly tasks until I can get Zelda Picross. The only big mission I haven't done is to add a nearby Miitomo friend. Plus, I haven't yet got the email giving out 200 platinum points for being an old Club Nintendo user. Hopefully that email will arrive soon.

Edit: The thing that confused me the most of the new system is Miitomo platinum points. Yesterday, I was worried that I only had 510 platinum points, and I didn't notice the My Nintendo page also said 370 Miitomo platinum points.

As soon as those retail codes start rolling out, I'm down with My Nintendo. Platinum points are great, considerino you're doing PR work in exchange for discounts. The Gold system needs to be fixed, though.

The quick expiration makes this almost pointless. You'd have to buy games at a good rate, and all digitally, to make use of the gold coins. They should really extend their life to two years, like it was with Club Nintendo.

That 6 months limit sucks. When you buy physical games they are cheaper than downloads and you can resale them trade them without limit of time.
I understand they might do rewards only for digital as an incentive versus physical but then they must get rid of that atrocious 6 months limit.

My Nintendo is certainly better than nothing but as others have mentioned, the fact that coins only last 6 months is really not cool. It really limits what you can do.

How do we know which points are expiring and when?

Too many numbers for my brain. Just give me the DDP back

It looks good to me as a digital only buyer. I get 40% off a full retail game (50-60€) if I buy 2x 49.99€ on the eShop? That's a 16-24€ savings discount if I spend 100€.

Where have you guys got the 50+ Platinum points daily with Miitomo number from because I can only see missions totalling 35 points daily on my My Nintendo?

@seb5049 I agree, love the physical rewards you used to get from the stars catalogue as they were things you just couldn't buy anywhere.

My favourite was the SNES classic controller which plugs into your Wii remote, it's an awesome reward for Nintendo fans.

I have over 1000 Platinum points between Miitomo and MyN - zero gold - but I don't have a 3DS so no Zelda Picros for me. I also told my kids not to waste coins on anything 15% off as I could find them a better deal retail. 30% could be OK though.

Of course my kids can't really use Miitomo all that much b/c they don't have Twitter or FB accounts.

I could also do with less currencies in Miitomo myself, coins, tickets and candies is 2 too many. I have no idea how candy works, I just know I don't have any but need it for things.

Still looking forward to Zelda U and NX news, enough with these distractions already.

I don't get why 5 Miitomo plays is more coins than 10. Doesn't make sense.

I agree that the platinum points are generous. I don't even have Miitomo, and I've already racked up 480 points (200 of those were from the ex-Club Nintendo email, admittedly).

However, as others have mentioned above, I think the gold point system is less generous; it's borderline non-existent for those like me who buy retail games physically and only download the occasional Virtual Console or Nindie game.

My Nintendo is okay, but there's always room for improvement. Hoping there will be more apps/games that can net you Platinum Coins since relying on the weekly missions for coins will take awhile for those who can't use Miitomo.

Yeah the max you can get is 35 coins a day might want to update that! I like the system it's cool and easy! The rewards are neat and not hard to get as long as you go in Miitomo everyday and do all the other missions!

If anyone has anything purchased from the Wii Shop Channel, that they can upgrade to the Wii U eShop version, it's a cheap way of racking up some lovely Gold Points. You'll get them based on the full price of the game on the eShop, even though you're only paying the small upgrade fee.

@sWiTcHeRoO Getting a usb hard drive for the Wii U is easy enough. I've been using a 250GB drive I bought used for $15 since launch. I do agree it's dumb not to reward people who buy physical copies. I tend to prefer digital but also recently discovered the Amazon Prime pre-order discount. I suppose this will steer more people to buy digitally but getting 20% off a purchase through amazon is a better deal than getting 60 gold coins.

@Raddorex If you click on the Nintendo logo at the top of your My Nintendo page it should open the official Nintendo website (in another tab) and award you 30 coins.

Make sure to keep your My Nintendo tab open/logged in. In my Points History it says: "Completed: Visit the official Nintendo website while signed in to your Nintendo Account (weekly), +30 coins".

If it doesn't work, try browsing the official Nintendo site (in particular the My Nintendo section) until it registers. It worked for me, though it might be region-specific (I'm in the UK).

@MJKOP Does the same go for games on sale?

@Discostew Probably because Canada is not the same as the US. I'm sure the 'deals' vary in Mexico as well.

@GH05T I don't care about physical games, as those are on the way out rapidly anyways (considering Nintendo's move onto Android/iOS, which never even knew 'physical' in the first place ...), but I gotta agree on the 6 months bit.
Looking at the numbers, I doubt I will see much if any use of those gold coins. The simple fact is, that personally I only buy exclusives on my 3DSXL/WiiU (and not all of those at that), so even if Nintendo would be having a very strong half-a-year for once in terms of exclusives releases - and that is a dauntingly big if, as things currently stand, and have been standing for a while - I somehow doubt that the e-shop will just happen to offer up a discount on that one exclusive game I still want, but have not gotten around to buy yet ...
The chances on all of this happening are beyond slim. Sure, eventually something will come together, and there are always smaller "purchases" to be made, but this is all in all just not a good incentive to spend money on the e-shop (at least not more than I have to so far), esp. considering the store is still lacking basic but crucial features I enjoy on Xbox Live and PSN, like game sharing or cross-buy, cloud save, games tied to account not hardware and so on.
All in all, there is nice interface and some good ideas at work on the e-shop, very Nintendo-esque if you ask me (in a good sense), but when it comes down to actual value and benefit, it's really not looking all that good imho. Nintendo is still way beyond the curve in that regard, frankly I'm not even sure this can count as a step forward at all in the end.
It's sleeker looking sure, and the fact that smartphones are in is nice, but the only real functional benefit I found sofar, is the fact, that I can purchase most (not sure if all) games online now, even if I'm on the road without access to my WiiU. That is small plus, I can really appreciate, but it's also about 5-6 years overdue.

Fun fact, Sony just yesterday send me an E-mail, that my Sony reward points, which were apparently due to expire on April 1st, would be granted ANOTHER YEAR of eligibility. I got that mail the same day I noticed that bit about the 6 months expiration on MyNintendo ... it was the most striking of differences =(

I forgot to mention, that half of those For-You-Offers! are games I already own digitally, therefore cannot and will not purchase again.
This feels a bit like a bad joke to be honest, almost like they were teasing me for being so silly to buy all of those games previously, when now, I could have saved 30%. I mean jesus my account clearly lists those purchases as already made ... darn it Nintendo =(

@manu0 I thought no one else has noticed since it wasn't mentioned anywhere.

I just want gold coins for buying physical games, is that too much to ask for?

I think Club Nintendo was much better (even if the site was clunky and looked awful) because it rewarded physical downloads and didn't expire nearly as quickly (did those coins expire at all?).

The platinum coins are fantastic and work really well, but it's a bit of a slight, I think, not to reward gold coins for physical releases, though I understand why given that Nintendo makes less money on them. At the very least, however, I think they should give a reduced amount. For example, a standard retail download gets you 60 coins; award 30 coins for buying that game physically. That way we who like physical media are still being rewarded, but Nintendo's diminished profits are being reflected by diminished rewards.

The expiration time, though....That has got to go. I don't know what they were thinking by putting a six month limit on those gold coins, but that's GOT to change. Come on, Nintendo; you've always been the companies that's the best about rewarding your customers. While this is still better than Sony's and Microsoft's complete lack of any rewards program, that's still a pretty screwed up feature in my opinion.

What happens when you "link" you account to Facebook? What does it do? What does it mean? Does it spam my timeline?

Not getting points for DLC is a bummer. Seems like an oversight.

@EarthboundBenjy facebook tells you that does not allow the third party to post on your timeline just before you confirm

How exactly do you earn platinum points for signing into Nintendo's website and "clicking through a few pages"? After reading this in the article and a few of the comments supporting this, I signed in and had a browse of the site for a while, but didn't earn any points for either task. Maybe these missions aren't available for Aussies?

Eshop prices are outrageous, seems like Nintendo is really just porking us left and right with my Nintendo. It could have been a good idea but it seems like execution hasn't been Nintendo's thing this gen.

@Ralek85 I think those "Just for you" offers on the main rewards page don't really mean anything yet.We all seem to have the same ones just now but there is also a separate "Just for you" section hidden away in the points history tab.It's currently empty,at least for me anyway so I assume this will become tailored to the user over time.

I for one am glad for My Nintendo even if the rewards are not that bad. It's better than having nothing. Club Nintendo wasn't a thing in my country so I missed out on all the rewards for years. At least now I can be part of a rewards scheme too.

I find it a bit ridiculous that the points expire after only six months. I would have thought that at least a year would be more appropriate. That is how long the star points used to last on Club Nintendo.

@StuOhQ apparently so, so far anyway! Unless it's a mistake and they fix it, but right now you get the reward based on the full price of the game, which is pretty good I think!

I think it's far from perfect. The expiration of points after only 6 months needs to be increased. The only games available from platinum points are for the 3DS, that's of no use to Wii U only owners. The My Nintendo site also doesn't run very well on the Wii U and certain images are partially cut. Buying games of €4.99 or less earns 0 gold points. Buying multiple games in one go on the eShop doesn't stack the values. That's not good either. And you only earn points for digital titles which are very often more expensive than buying them physically. And speaking of physical, there's no physical rewards. Like I said, it's far from perfect.

Ok I'm still confused with physical games do they earn gold coins when registered?

@Maxz

Same with me - I would pay even a little bit more for a physical copy than have this digital thing. One thing that I actually like about mynintendo is that you can get those platinum points for free. Since miitomo is not available in Poland (for whatever reason) it will take some time to get the 1000 points needed for zelda picross - but still, I am looking forward to that game

Just btw, I like companies who dont show their greed that openly. As it stands now, I like the games nintendo produces, but nintendo as a company is way to greedy as to call it a good company (among many other reasons)

@Sligeach

exactly - what if I were to buy multiple dlc for fire emblem awakening which is on sale now? No points at all...

@GH05T

Yeah, those physical rewards were cool - and surprising - now you get a discount on something that you either own already or can buy cheaper without the discount in a physical version - which I prefer anyway -

@Ralek85

You are absolutely right! But to be honest I dont care - if I want a game then I will buy it anyway - no need for a discount. the only exceptions are full priced digital only games like dual destinies or the upcoming xero escape game -

I don't like My Nintendo that much. I may grab a few themes but I own the majority of the games they are suggesting to me. I also prefer physical games because in this current age, digital ownership is not what you think. You don't own the product in the same way you do a physical copy and your product is connected to a machine. I only own VC stuff and some DLC. Maybe $100 spent from when stuff went online and a few Smash characters. My Nintendo doesn't even move the needle for me and I see no benefit to the program for me personally. If you are a digital customer, I hope this program works out for you guys! Just because I don't like something doesn't mean others can't enjoy it! To each their own =).....but middle finger up to My Nintendo and a tear shed for Club Nintendo =_(

@OorWullie I noticed that as well, so I do hope, this is something that will eventually be fixed/reworked in a way that makes it less frustrating and more useful. Can't help but feel though that this is something they should have ready-to-go upon launch.

Don't have Facebook (not F'd), Twitter or G+. They are a stupid waste of time, so I'm missing out on a sweet 30 points :-/...
I got around 200 points. Seems a bit mean that you need 1000 to spend it on a single small game. I spent so many points on their overpriced Club Nintendo rewards, shouldn't I get something for that? At least I got Flipnotes. That is reasonably fun at least.

@Andrzej777 Sure, same here, but it's still nice to get a discount and save some money. More than that though, it's just nice to feel ... well, appreciated as a customer in a way I guess. I've been playing Nintendo games almost as long as I can literally remember, much longer than I've played on PC or XBOX, and even quite a bit longer than I played on PS (though I did have a PSX ^^), so in a way, Nintendo is also always an emotional matter as much as a "practical" one.
That is an advantage for them, I guess, as nostalgia in all it's forms and shapes can be quite powerful, on the other hand, it's a struggle for them to live up to that and keep that feeling alive, while still going with the times and keeping things "modern".

For example, I was really infuriated by the fact, that in order to get access to Atlus games (which are about 50% of the reason I would buy a 3DS-like system), I had to go down the rather inconvient and also costly route of importing a 3DSXL from the U.S. ... even loosing access to my previous DSi purchases and being cut-off from some local-multiplayer aspects, and all of that due to the anachronistic issue of region-locking (which is INSANE on a handheld, meant for travel, and was not even present on the NDS ...). I went along with it, but it really caused me a bit of agony, because I really did not want to go through all the trouble and equally I had zero interest in supporting region-locking. Issues like this are plentiful over the last decade or so, and it seems to me, that for every moment of pure joy Nintendo manages to inspire with me these days, they also manage to inspire a moment of utter frustration (often aggravated by the fact, that just like region-locking, it seems so infuriatingly pointless!).
I really, really wish, Nintendo could keep making those great games they make, but otherwise take a couple of hundred of pages from Microsoft's and Sony's playbook.

I couldn't find any mention on when they update the My Nintendo rewards...is it monthly or longer? Also, the discounts are pretty cheesy...doesn't really save you that much, but is fine if you want the game and can't find them in stores. Getting the gold coins will be tough for me, as I own too much in the e-shop as it is, and don't plan on buying games that are available at retail, through download.

I got to say that I miss the various rewards from Club Nintendo, and I hate that the coins expire after 6 months (to me, it's nintendo's way of getting you to spend and spend some more on the e-shops). I miss club nintendo, but I also miss Nintendo Power, and neither are ever going to be coming back. Nintendo's changing, and it seems to be changing into 'wanting more money from its fans' anymore. In all honesty, I can't wait to see what the NX has in store for us and what they'll do for us fans that bought the Wii U and invested the time and money into it. Hopefully nintendo doesn't forget about those fans, only to want the other consumers instead (going for them only, that is)

@Ralek85

I agree with you! I have come to know nintendo games as the fun counterpart to sony or ms - so much as to sell all my games for non-nintendo consoles. I got quite invested, right now I have such a huge backlog of games that I even doubt I play all of them games in my life. But gaming, to me, isnt about beating a game, its about having fun - not rushing. This most important aspect was missing when I owned an xbox 360 and I am so happy to have switched to nintendo. Its very unlikely that I am going to buy any non-nintendo related system.
But, that being said, I dont consider myself a nintendo fanboy. I like their games, but that doesnt mean I will buy every game they release, no matter how bad, etc. I am not going to buy amiibo festival and wonder why they have invested money and manpower into creating such a game when they could have made a game which their fans want, like wave race for example.
Region lock is the most unnecessary thing they could have come up, I would really like to buy pikmin 2 - but its not available in Europe whereas I could have got a comparably cheap, brand new and sealed US-copy, if not for the region lock.
Same goes for many other things that nintendo has had the audacity to pull of, like the fire emblem limited edition disaster.

Running a company is probably not easy and the competition is fierce. So why doesnt nintendo listen to their fans and just try a little bit harder to meet their expectations instead of arrogantly imposing their business strategies onto their fans?

Of course, mynintendo is better than nothing at all, but do I have to call it groundbreaking, or beneficial? Do I have to voice my opinion about it in the most positive way possible? No, I call it what it is, a poorly designed, customer unfriendly cash-grab system, and I hope that most people will see it for what it is and try not to fall for it. Buy yourselves some physical copies instead of overpaying for digital and be poorly rewarded.

@JLPick I used to enjoy Nintendo Power, nice to see that someone else remembers it. I still have the final issue unopened in the shrink wrap.

I have alot of Wii points to use up, I hope they decide to add games back to WiiWare that are listed on this site no longer available when I look for them.

Only problem with Miitomo is that only popular Youtubers and Twitter Users are getting likes and comments on their answers, I have over 60 friends and haven't gotten a single like or comment in a few days xD, I can't complete those 2 missions :c

I just realized that it's because you have to spend candy in order to listen to them which is kind of weird

@sWiTcHeRoO
I think that they will have rewards for physical purchases. The site already has a code redemption area.

Sadly, Poland is still waiting for Miitomo.

sorry Nintendo 15% discounts ain't gonna cut it especally If I own all the platinum 15% offs your offering in retail format.

I'd be all over that 50% off the mario tipping stars game as that should be the MSRP for the game.

I didn't know the coins had an expiration date on them, only thought the missions that granted them did.. this changes things. I sometimes buy several games over a few months, and sometimes i don't buy any games for half a year... this whole loyalty thing seems to be more like a scam to get people to buy alot over shorter peroids of time now... can Nintendo ever do anything good for their customers? :S

I'll get bored of Miitomo in a month (I've already played Tomodachi Life), and considering I don't make too many purchases on the eShop, I probably won't be thinking about My Nintendo in a month.

@Raddorex i'm not sure if anyone has comented already, but just in case:

You are correct, only 35 coins daily from Miitomo, not 50+

Also, if you look in your coin history, you notice coins if you checked out the Nintendo site while logged in. It'll say "Completed: Visit the official Nintendo website while signed in to your Nintendo Account (weekly)" and is good for 30. This doesn't show up in the list of missions however.

By my calculations, between daily Miitomo stuff and weekely logins, you can garner 335 plat coins per week! (245 for 35*7 and the another 90 with the three logins each worth 30 weekly). That means 3 weeks for 1005. Not bad if you ask me!

@ZenTurtle the point isn't to give away free stuff for no reason: it's to reward loyalty. By linking your facebook, G+, and twitter, you potentially use those sites to post Miitomo and my nintendo stuff to your social media. In otherwords, they're rewarding you for potentially advertizing for them. It's understandable if you don't want to, but it's also silly to expect the company to just give you a game for doing absolutely nothing!

@GamePerson19 That's probably if the digital game you got was from outside the in-console eShop. Like Amazon digital codes, for example.

@CompanionCube And that's assuming people even like/comment on your posts so you get 10-20 off of them. It's a bit annoying having to rely on people to complete tasks for you since maybe they disagree with your answer or have nothing to say. If you have a small amount of friends this is even worse.

At the very least one can get 5 from changing clothes, 5 from answering, and 5 from reading people's stuff.
15 guaranteed off your own use, 10-20 extra if your friends list proves to be useful.

@sWiTcHeRoO
It still shows promise for physical purchases also being rewarded

@AlmightyDerek What drive are you using?
And I agree, I will most likely still buy Wii U games physically from Amazon to make use of my Prime that I spent a lot on in the first place. The Gold Coin rewards are so pointless it's not worth trying to accumulate the coins for them. Also considering how much of a drought there are with Nintendo releases (I personally want nothing that's coming up) my coins would just go to waste in the 6-month span.

Even the Platinum rewards are meh... 15% off is hardly anything (it's like $7 less...), and I'm not exactly interested in Picross or getting WarioWare (even though it's good I don't see myself using it much) so...
I will probably get the games anyway since it's just 2 of them (and I can get either one already) but I really wish the rewards were better. At least more games or better discounts... the amount of coins you waste just to get 15% off and thus make yourself miss out on the other rewards (even if they're shoddy) is not worth it at all.

@sWiTcHeRoO every wii u has anything from 64GB to 2TB.
i doubt more than a few dozen people around the world bought it and never bought a memory card or flash drive for it.

Hmm...gold coins might would provide an incentive IF Amazon (combined with Amazon Prime) didn't often make physical versions cheaper. In the end, if I pay $35 for Bravely Second, (as opposed to the $40 on the eShop) I come out with a physical copy of the game. The extra 5$ spent on the digital download would result in me getting 40 gold coins, which is the equivalent (more or less) of $6. In the end, the digital copy just isn't worth it.

I think the Gold Coin amounts have been advertised incorrectly.

I purchased a game for £2.79 the other day and got 10 Gold Points. So it must be the case that "£0-£8.99" gets you 10 Points.

@MJKOP I took advantage of the sale and bought "Life of Pixel" for $4.99, and "Space Harrier 3D" at $3.99 - both generated 10 coins

@StuOhQ nice one, I've 30 Gold Points after upgrading Sin & Punishment, and I bought Shantae Risky's Revenge: Directors Cut & Fire Emblem GBA, about 12 or £13 total spend.

@alasdair91 was the game on sale? If so you currently get the Gold Points based on the full price of the game on Nintendo eShop, sweet!

@GH05T Poor Princess Peach