Reminder: All of the Expiry Dates to Help You Plan Your My Nintendo Rewards

I'm expecting more themes in the upcoming weeks, so I'm actually waiting for these to expire. I'd love a metroid theme, but I don't like the only one I've found in the E shop. Samus deserves way more love.

Very helpful! This will definitely come in handy; much better than having to go check all the expiration dates ourselves! Thanks!

I think those too long, I hope that after these are gone the next ones won't take as long to go away, I mean, it is good to have time to get them, but when they are good, or at least something we don't have.

Mainly trying to get enough coins for Zelda Picross. WarioWare is fun but since I can get it through other means, I don't really care if the promotion ends before I have enough coins for that too. I'll rather wait and see what replaces it so I have a head start.

Also, Mario and Donkey Kong: Minis on the Move is missing a date.

@Charinzardon While I also wait for them to expire so that we can get more options, I think the dates are fine. Sure, miitomo users can get these ones quite fast, but many countries can't use the app and gathering enough coins takes a while.

I'm more interested in the games rather then the Miitomo bonuses or the 3DS themes. The discounts don't interest me since I've got those games already, mostly in physical form. All of the virtual console ones except DKCR I have already so I'm passing on those, but still plan on getting DKCR if I can get enough gold coins in time.

I grabbed WarioWare Touched already since that one expires first. Next will be the Twilight Princess Picross, and I'm relatively close to getting that already.

Cheers for the dates, guess we're gonna need them
On another note, does the flipnote studio have to be downloaded to the same nnid or is it a code? I don't have a 3ds so wanted to give it away!

I was a little disappointed that WarioWare is distributed as a DSi game, so I'll probably hold off on any more DS VC unless there's something really awesome.

I hope they do something about those 6 months, as well as give us a preview of what comes up next in terms of rewards. Also, they best also offer discount son some new games like StarFox ... not just games months or years old.
After all, this is supposed to be an upgrade over Club Nintendo, is it not?

I KINDA appreciate the time limits on reward points. As a group us gamers tend to hoard "just in case" allowing things pass by because the next thing might be better. Knowing points have a life span might be just the kick in the bottom need to pull that trigger.

@ULTRA-64: You need to have a 3DS linked to your account. It starts downloading it to the linked 3DS as soon as the redeem button is clicked on the website without any need to touch the 3DS itself as long as it's in sleep mode so it can start downloading.

I've grabbed Zelda Picross. There's nothing else there that I desperately want, but I may get Wario Ware if I get enough points before then. Or I may just save my points for when new items emerge.

I've already snagged Warioware and the Mario theme; all my points will build up from here on in until awards I want show up for platinum points. I don't need any of the discounts they have available, I can only have one theme active at a time, so there's no need for another that I really don't want, and Picross probably isn't worth the points. That said, if the points build up really quickly, I might snag it anyway.

I still don't get it why do the points expire after six months. Seems like the dumbest idea ever thought up. It's digital points, those should never expire.

Or if there needs to be an expiry date for earned points, put something like two years as the limit.

I hope they give more content soon to My Nintendo rewards, make more Missions available and restructure the gold points amount ranges.

Miitomo also needs to be released globally and stop with the stupid regional releases for a social media app.

Nice guide. Hopefully May 1 NIntendo will offer something worthwhile that I don't already own. Though I'm not racking up points since I'm not touching that mobile shovelware app.

Be interesting to see what offers will replace the current ones once they've ended.

It really is stupid that they don't factor in the gold coins from purchases off the eShop from since the death of Club Nintendo. I would have definitely been able to get Donkey Kong Country Returns in the U.S. and right now I don't see anything worth purchasing to make the July 1st deadline. Rather harsh for Nintendo to leave people with no option like that.

I can see myself grabbing the Mario theme, just because. Otherwise... meh, I'll wait till May 1st.

I hope we get Advance Wars: Days of Ruin like Japan did a few years ago. I'd gladly throw 1k Platinum at that.

Very useful,thanks

I'm mostly focusing on getting platinum points, so hopping on miitomo isn't for no reason. I'm about to get Warioware Touched. Probably just keep saving my coins for the next round of rewards.

I already got Zelda Picross on both my accounts for both my at-home new XL and on-the-go smaller New 3DS. Next on the list is WarioWare Touched for each system.

My gold coin goal is DKC Returns VC download (MyNintendo exclusive in NA- can't buy from eShop), and after that, well, Idk. I'm sure something else will rotate in. Or I can always get a digital copy of a game I own for my on-the-go 3DS. Since I'm building a separate, digital collection of my faves on it.

So far I'm liking the old club Nintendo better. The 6 month time limit bother me.

Thanks for the list. Will get Zelda Picross eventually. The gold ones are not that good and expire too soon. Give me ddp points!

Considering Zelda Picross doesn't expire until October, I'm probably gonna pick up the Mario suit first, then maybe either the Donkey Kong theme or some Miitomo tickets as I already got WarioWare and the Mario theme.

If you don't have Android or iPhone it's tough to get the good stuff.

I think I'll wait for the next round of rewards... I know the coins expire after 6 months, but does anyone know if there is a max amount of coins you can have at once? The reason I ask is that my Miitomo coin bin on My Nintendo account is getting quite full...

Wait, how do I get Flipnote Studio?

@VanillaLake There are quite good emulators for PCs by now.

..so say you have 20 gold coins left, about to expire, after 6 months..wouldn't it be nice if you could buy platinum coins, with those gold, so you could afford a platinum prize at least..

@Baker1000 Go on to the website, then once you've lived in and see your mii walking on the screen look underneath that and there should be a notification bar about Flipnote!

@Baker1000 ...or (in US) in rewards, it's the last one (bottom rt)..

I already have TP Picross & the Mario 3DS theme, and will have enough for the Donkey Kong 3DS theme by Monday.

I may save up to get the Mario outfit before the month is out, but I'm not too fussed about Miitomo rewards, personally.

I'm seeing that Slaptoon is 30% off in the US on the My Nintendo site, not 15%.

The rewards expiring is one thing, but the points expiring 6 months later really sucks.

I got the two themes and I don't really like anything else right now, so I'm good until we get new stuff.

I'm entitled to Flipnote Studio but my 3DS is outta action, I'd love to download it to my sons 2DS but I don't believe that's possible? He's too young to set up an account for him, even though he has his own NNID...

@MJKOP ... you can put your code on his 2ds if you want ( since his has a NNID ).. I gave mine to a friend with no my nintendo..worked fine..

I'd wager a lot of fans already own a lot of those games listed. Seems Nintendo would benefit from discounts on some eshop stuff or maybe newer titles like Star Fox Zero and Pokken.

This is a cluster fudge... This is the way freemium stuff works... Miitomo is fun, but it's turning out to be just like typical mobile games. It's a very bad business model for the customer... It's a 10% of the players pay 90% of the revenue model... It's a create an addict and exploit the addict type revenue model... This will not be good long term for the industry... It's sad

In Canada, we get 30% off Splatoon for 140 gold points and we can get 10 Game Tickets (1 use) for 250 platinum points. There's no listed expiry date for the 10 Game Tickets.

I'm assuming other Canadians, besides myself, are getting these deals, too.

@SH007ME so you can use the code on another nnid then? I posted earlier and somebody said otherwise, unless I'm missing something here?!?

According to these two lists, the US and Canada (as the Canadian stuff is identical to the US ones) don't get equal treatment.
Ex. 1) Yoshi's Wooly World - US 15% off 750 PC/UK 20% off 600 PC
Ex. 2) LoZ: ALBW - US 15% off 600 PC/UK 20% off 300 PC
Ex. 3) Splatoon - US 30%(not 15%) off 140 GC/UK 40% off 100 GC
PR = Platinum Coins, GC = Gold Coins (in case your wondering).

Like c'mon those are terrible deals on the US and Canada side...
Does the UK get more generous deals because it's one of Nintendo's weaker countries? I'd love to see a comparison between the UK and FR/GR.

I'm not all that impressed by My nintendo right now. I don't like the expiration on points and I'm not a fan of how much it costs to get the discounts. 140 gold points (Well over $100+ on the eshop) for a slight discount on splatoon seems a bit much. At that point it would be better to simply buy splatoon at full price because it'd be cheaper than saving up for the discount.

@ULTRA-64 ..yes, you sure can..in fact all rewards ( not miitomo ) can be given away or even traded (places on line for trading, and selling), as they are just download codes you enter in e-shop.... Here's what it says under the code :
*A Nintendo 3DS system is required to use this reward.
*You will receive a download code for this item. You'll need to download the game separately on your Nintendo 3DS system.
*You can view your download code on the My Nintendo website once you redeem your points for it.
..so yea, give em or trade em, codes just have to be used in the same region they came from..

@SH007ME thank you for your help

I got all I want, waiting for the stuff to expire for new stuff to roll in. I am more waiting for themes also, with like 200+ platinum points a week free, I should be good for spending my points without issue.

@MJKOP ..you're welcome, glad to help..

I'm super excited for the future of Nintendo games: achievements that might actually save you money and get you cool stuff.

A couple of quick questions if anybody can help...do games bought as download codes from either third-party retailers or in the boxes with download codes in (e.g.Mario v Donkey Kong) still earn Gold points?

Also if you buy a game and use a My Nintendo Reward as a discount, does that earn Gold points?

Thanks

Quick question for the group! I redeemed 200 points for the Mario Theme for my 3DS. It gave me a code and told me to go to the e-shop. Once there, it told me to redeem the code inside the relevant software. Is there something I need to download for My Nintendo rewards? Or is this something I need to contact Nintendo about? Thank you community!

@Nintendofan83 your probably making the same mistake I made at first. I went to the eshop instead of the theme eshop to claim my theme. The theme eshop is located in the home menu design app in the change theme option.

thanks for that!

I've already got warioware touched as you only have till July for that one I decided to get that first as the picross game you have till October. Now I've done the easy points it's certainly gonna take much longer now but I'm impressed with the free games so far! I hope we get more of the 3ds free games in the future and hopefully some more exclusive games like picross hopefully something Mario related !

@electrolite77 I bought Pokémon Red, Blue and Yellow codes from Gamestop.com and received 10 Gold Coins for each game.

It also looks like you get Gold Coins for games on sale as well (if the original price is over $5). I bought "F-Zero - GP Legend" for $4.89 (originally $6.99), "The Legend of Dark Witch 2" for $4.99 (originally $6.99) and Pazuru for $2.99 (originally $5.99) and received 10 Gold Coins for each game.

@AENIGMA

Great. Thanks for your reply.

@FlashmanHarry You fine sir, are a gem! I followed your instructions and it worked perfectly. I'm now gonna get the DK one, too! Nintendo should have been more clear. Cheers!

@DoctorOverbuild Thanks!

@sgotsch I did not know...

@roy130390 That is my case, miitomo isn't available in my country, but the only reward that I want is zelda picross, so as soon as miitomo launches I will have every reward that I want and will stay months without nothing to spend on.

@Baker1000 No worries I've been helping loads of people get it as once it goes at the end of the month it probably won't ever come back!

@TsukiDeity The "UK" deals are the same in all of Europe. They are much better over all, but ALBW is part of the Nintendo Selects range in Europe, which explains the difference in that case.

No idea what NoA has smoked to think, they could charge 80 gold points more than NoE for NSLU, though. oO

@scamander Yeah, that's interesting. Is NSLU cheaper in the eShop in the UK? The # of gold points needed indicates that it's the same price as Super Mario 64. If that's not true, that's a strange move.

In the US, SM64 is $10 and NSLU is $20, so at least the gold point requirements are more or less consistent here.

I still think it's poor of Nintendo not too allow you too keep your points so can spend them whenever you like on whatever you would like too get instead of spending them of things you don't want just too spend the points rather than lose them.

@brideck For now it's 19,99€, so double the price of N64 games; just like in NA. But they announced in their weekly press release, that it will be reduced permanently to 9,99€ this Thursday (when NSMBU + NSLU will be part of the Nintendo Selects selection as well). Now it makes more sense, that it is that cheap on My Nintendo.

@scamander Yeah, that makes a lot of sense. The part I can't figure out is the discount rewards in the UK. The US ones may not be a good deal, but there is a consistency to them.

How is a 40% discount on Tomodachi Life ($30) worth the same amount of gold points as a 40% discount on Splatoon ($60)?

@brideck Splatoon always has been a budget game in Europe and was priced at 40€ on release. Don't know why that is a full price game in the US.

I feel Nintendo as greedy as they were in Club Nintendo "offers".

I feel Nintendo as greedy as they were in Club Nintendo "offers".