My Nintendo Really Wants You To Use Miitomo, But Only Offers 2 Points in New Daily 'Mission'

I'm confused at 2 coins. Surely 5 would make sense. Every over mission in miitomo is 5 or 10 coins. Like changing clothes gives you 5! It's crazy that 2 coins was chosen!

I would use it if the app wasn't >500MB, I ended up deleting it because I needed the space on my phone

Until today the "question of the day" gave 25 points every 2 weeks...

Um... Okay. Free points I guess.

We need credits back. Nintendo only wants us to spend actual money on their games with this program.

I'd be happy if they just brought back physical rewards like they had with their previous rewards program. It was so nice to be able to get those 3DS cartridge cases.

Platinum coins are completely useless. What a waste. I expected much more from the Club Nintendo successor but what we got is just sad.

How is that possible when its only available in a few countries?

@Volendral I got 3 of the 3ds ones and 2 of the ds stylus holder ones. So worth it. Doubt we will ever see that again though.

To get me properly back into Miitomo they'll have too:

-add more things to do in Miitomo, like customise my apartment.

-add more incentives to MyNintendo. I have 90% of what's on offer already and the things I don't is because I don't want them. Why not offer more promos on new stuff? Battle Cats Pop and BoxBoxBoy could have both had MyNintendo exclusive launch discounts for example.

I mean, I guess the rewards are technically better than a Yoshi dish cloth or a cheap Mario notepad. But they're useless to me.

Also I really hope the NX lets me take my customised Miitomo Mii and use it across the console. Sucks that when I go back to my consoles my Mii is just default body with my head on it again.

"Nintendo is offering a tiny bit of extra incentive to tempt you back. A new daily 'Mission' will reward you with 2 Platinum points every time you answer the app's 'Featured Question'."

Is this some sort of a twisted aprils fools day joke?

If someone would come up on the street to me with this fantastic new Greeditendo offer, he would get a punch straight in the face. Now Nintendo makes carny tricks look like scientific formulas. Why dont you start with rigged scratch cards?

About Miitomo, Nintendo is actually lucky that nobody gives a flying ..ck about it. Perhaps at the end of year there will be a nice "Biggest failure in 2016" best of - spot secured already in april, congrat, chaps .. and please, say congrats to the guy who greenlighted this and came up with the 2 point idea... a genius.

Oh my, "2" is just awful for people with OCD... Come on, Ninty, multiples of 5 are much "better"!

Not being able to change your room, get a pet, do anything but play pachinko and answer way too personal questions makes me hope that the Animal Crossing game will be worth more of my time. With AC the fundamental structure of the game is built around customizing yourself and your home so we're guaranteed that at the very least.

Miitomo had a lot of promise and more minigames could have made it a solid time waster but its too bare to be anything more than a novelty app

I still have Miitomo on my phone (I have some extra space, so why not?), and I start it up every once in a while for the 10 Platinum coins. Getting 2 extra coins won't make me start it up more often. Besides, I already have both of the 1000 coin games, and I'm almost at another 1000 coins for whatever replaces WarioWare in August. While I still think it's awkward to complain about My Nintendo Platinum rewards (they're 100% free, people; Club Nintendo didn't have anything like that), I do wish there was more to My Nintendo, and I hope it expands and improves quickly. It will be interesting to see how it connects with Nintendo's upcoming app games, too.

While it may be a baby programme, My Nintendo started in an advanced point of the 3DS and Wii U's life and Nintendo isn't new in the industry and already had a reward system. Between these missions with insignificant prizes and outdated rewards that most were available since Club Nintendo multiple times, they are giving the middle finger to their most loyal fanbase.

In my case, I didn't have these prizes since I learned about Club Nintendo when it was almost about to disappear so I was able to pick a few rewards, but the truth is that Nintendo needs to step up their game and show that they appreciate every customer, specially now that they need to do great with the NX.

I just hope that Nintendo does s better job with its next smart phone apps. Miitomo is a waste of space on my phone and it's getting deleted after I post this. I forgot about it for over a month now and it wasn't fun anyways. I really have hope that Nintendo will release some good apps. Miiverse on my phone would be better...

Doesn't matter if it was 1000 coins, there was nothing worth buying with platinum coins once you got the Picross game and the Wario game. I got all the games and themes, and now what?

Miitomo and My Nintendo are both terrible programs. Bring back Club Nintendo! Bring back points for physical games!

I kind of miss Club Nintendo too with it's physical rewards. I got some games including the Zelda Collectors Edition, the pac-pix stylus, and the Mario Kart 8 folders, among lots of Nintendo Points on Wii. Apart from the Picross game and WarioWare which are both nice freebies yet nothing special, there is really no motivation to stack and save up either platinum or gold coins. There is literally nothing I want for either category!

That said, I still have Miitomo installed and use it once every week or so, maybe even less. They can keep those 2 points.

2 coins!? Really?!(thats just weak)

Breaking News, seems Nintendo just announced all rewards at once, here it is:

http://i.imgur.com/dPmvwvW.jpg

At least I got new levels to earn.

Maybe expand platinum coins to games other than Miitomo Nintendo! Not that you give us anything to buy with them but still.

I enjoyed Miitomo for about a month. Got old afrer that, plus so few of my friends use it.

Still a better social app than Facebook, though.

@Zanark I'm sure the Fire Emblem and Animal Crossing games will give Platinum Points.

Does Nintendo listen to our suggestions at all? Is there any way to convince the big guys at Ninty to listen to our proposals that we deem would improve Miitomo traffic!

You all have great thoughts and my husband brought up the idea of Streetpass style meetups to get extra platinum coins for meeting with other people that have Miitomo! All of these ideas could potentially increase Miitomo usage again and they need to have ways to get more Miitomo coins and missions to get more Platinum coins, like winning an item in Miitomo Drop on the first try or something? Just spitting out stuff here, haha!

Hmm, well, I fear that My Nintendo will provide only a couple of desired rewards every few months or so. That means that it will be very easy to save up enough coins. However, it also means that Miitomo isn't a desirable app to spend time with on a regular basis. It's okay for what it is, but it isn't something that gets played for what it provides itself. If there were some linkage to avatars used on consoles, that would be different and may encourage some to start the app more. At the moment, though, Miitomo just isn't providing enough people with enough of a reason to use it. Hopefully, updates and NX can change that and make it more relevant.

Being resource-heavy also might be holding it back. There are still hundreds of thousands of phones/tablets that just don't have enough storage space or adequate processing power.

Miitomo is boring. There's nothing to do. Only reason to use it is for Platinum Coins, but...

My Nintendo is a huge let down. There's nothing much to spend Plat Coins on.

I can understand their business idea - 'instead of all that costly physical merch, we can just flog them in-game rewards on digital stuff! You know, because it doesn't cost anything! But don't give them VC games as rewards... we can sell those... let's build some sort of mobile app and give freebies on there instead, job done!'

I expected much, much more. There's always a chance it will get better, but so far it's been very disappointing.

@ironside1911 I actually laughed at that, good one!

Picked up Pilotwings SNES for my New 3DS 50% off voucher the other day i thought that was alright.

I still find the answers people give in miitomo hilarious, depends who your friends are I guess. It's becoming a bit of a chore but the most recent update has definitely helped, IMO

Here's an idea, more big rewards for Plat coins that make us want to grind daily to get them. You started well with Warioware Touched and Zelda TP Picross, follow on with that.

I just want codes in my physical games, darn it. Club Nintendo did it fantastically.

@Angelic_Lapras_King Bingo, I figured we'd be due for a third game this month.

And it's not like there's a shortage of DS games to repackage.

I gave up on Miitomo because I don't care about dressing up my Mii, and answering stupid questions, that's not fun to me. Just stick with making real games Nintendo, not this pointless crap Nintendo can try enticing me back as much as they want, I won't go back.

I'm still using it, mainly to get the my nintendo platinum coins, so what works out to an extra 10 coins a week is a nice bonus.

I'd probably give Miitomo a try if it didn't fall prey to the proverbial region restrictions here. Google Play won't let me download it even though it's available for Russia which so many western services and listings tend to throw Belarus in one market bin with.

It was even more baffling with Nintendo Anime Channel which is available AND advertised in Russian eShop, downloads fine... and complains about "your location not matching the region" instead of loading the catalogue. Probably based on IP. Well, excuse me for not seeing my country on the list and dealing with the geographically/linguistically closest option, but why does it begin to matter all the way at this point? I don't think I'll ever understand the logic or patterns behind all these region restriction policies.

If Miitomo app was already out worldwide it could have more users.

I've over 3,000 platinum coins and 70 gold coins. But I've absolutely nothing worthwhile to spend them on. 'My Nintendo' in its current form is $H1T€ in a bucket. They need to give us proper rewards.

2 coins for answering the question of the day is miserably stingy. I can see Nintendo's thinking. They give 5 coins for answering 3 questions a day, so mathematically speaking this is a greater reward in percentage terms(1.66 coins versus 2 coins per question). Still, they're tighter than a ducks @R$€!

As I've said before, just do as I do. Mash in a load of nonsense. It's so much quicker.

Miitomo. What a crock of utter poop. I had it for one month. It was so dull. It's a nice idea for children. Very young children.
Nintendo has some great games but they just don't have universal appeal,any more.
They need to grow up.

_{watch the language...-Megumi}

this app is so stupid one week later and it gets boring as hell... it dropped off the top charts rapidly during may..... MY NINTENDO POINTS IS NOT ENOUGH!!! GIVE US THE ANIMAL CROSSING APP ALREADY AND I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT THE HELL DENA IS DOING

Is it sad that I'd settle for a pencil stamped "Nintendo" than the offers they've given us so far?

Yeah, I wasn't interested in Tomodachi Life, nothing you do is going to make me interested in this.

Miitomo sucks.

I'm really confused as to why my Nintendo didn't have physical rewards in the first place, it could be exactly the same as it is now. But with codes from physical games where we get PHYSICAL rewards, as well as platinum coins from miitomo etc..

@DoctorOverbuild too expensive, that's why they discontinued club nintendo/

@manu0 Hmm yeah I can see that, sucks for us fans. They should've put multiple DS downloads up on it, I know they can only use small games because it has to pretend to be a dsi game, but they totally could do ds downloads.

Compared to Club Nintendo, My Nintendo is a bit average. But it's better than the nothing Sony and Microsoft offer (cheers Inafune!).

Maybe make either of the services worthwhile Nintendo. Miitomo isn't fun and My Nintendo turned out to be a really poor service.

And to add a more personal point of salt: They couldn't even give you the 10 gold points for a download title like BoxBoxBoy, did you really have to give it a price of €4,99 rather than €5,00?

@Moon And it would make a sort of sense if the gold rewards were any better, but those 30% discounts aren't exactly "gotta have it" material either.

I guess they're trying to corner the "people who don't own the same five or six first party VC games everyone owns" market.

@Spoony_Tech I have a bunch of the cartridge holders, and I love them. Makes storage so much easier. And I shall continue to dream that they will have awesome physical rewards again. It'll probably never happen, but I shall continue to dream... Lol.

Like others have said, platinum points are easy to get, but there is not much to spend them on. The Miitomo app seems a bit lame and I have/had zero interest in downloading it.

@Volendral the cartridge cases were nice. I was able to get two of them before CN closed in North America.

I have everything aside from some miitomo cosmetics and the crappy 15% off vouchers, I'm sitting at 1500 plat coins.

Shame they only let you get one game code otherwise I'd give a couple warioware codes to friends.

I guess I'm saying 2 coins isn't very meaningful for me currently.

So for the vast majority of us who think Miitomo is garbage, and won't even use it at all unless to try to milk some coins out of it, which Nintendo obviously knows, is it too far fetched to think that maybe they are so determined to get nosy in our personal lives that they keep offering these coin incentives in return for the answering of personal questions that they are reading for their own agenda? I put only gibberish in my answers. I hope they enjoy THAT. Haha

Points is the only reason I still play Miitomo. It's just not fun, Tomadachi Life has more things to do than Miitomo. The game snaps an imaginary picture, wait to upload (5 seconds or more...), answers a question, connect to server - 2 or more seconds, look for clothes at shop, wait another 10 seconds... it's just takes away whatever little fun left in the game. Maybe if your cell service (or wifi) is super fast, but where I am, it's wonky most of the time...

2 platinum points is worth about $.02

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CmSjyqnXgAENHIq.jpg

Is it available in Brazil yet? No? Next time, then.

@ReshiramZekrom My phone says it takes up 75.4 megabytes on mine.

Hoping third parties jump on board with the NX because Nintendo could benefit from offering discounts on games the average Nintendo console owner doesn't already have. I can't get excited for the sales because I probably have the games that'd be worth buying, in addition the Wii U has such terrible storage that idk why they emphasize digital sales so much, 3ds is in a similar boat.

On the subject of Miitomo, personally I don't find the app very good, once the novelty of seeing Miis cuss is over the app is too bland. It's like Tomadachi life but not nearly as customizable. The app has been on my phone sucking up space/battery life for weeks and I've used it maybe 3 times. Outside of changing clothes you can't really do anything with it. Would love to see Nintendo offer apps that don't get old after a handful of uses.

It's 2 platinum points for ONE question. Up til now you've gotten 5 points for answering THREE. This seems exactly what one question would be worth if you gave out points for such a thing.

@the-madprofessor Actually Microsoft still has Xbox Live Rewards which is like 100000000000000000000000000000000% better than My Nintendo. The setup is very simple, you buy anything digital and the total is added up for the entire month of which a percentage rebate is applied to your account. The more you spend, the higher the rebate percentage is and if you're an Xbox Live Gold member then your percentage is doubled.

Sure, I liked the old Club Nintendo better than Xbox Live Rewards solely because of physical rewards like the MK8/Smash/SM3DW/SMG/KTD soundtracks but with that completely gone XBL Rewards is the superior rewards program.

I have a boatload of points built up but the catch 22 of the system is that people like me that have so many coins, already own most games on offer...there is nothing for me to redeem for.

Also...I'd be more ok with waiting forever for something good to come along if the coins didn't expire. THATS the biggest kick to the nads with this program if you ask me.

I honestly don't mind more free points, but it would be better if we can spend them on better rewards. If the rewards catalog was amazing, people would gladly play Miitomo more. But no, rewards are lame, nothing to spend on, and our points will expire anyway.

What a failure

This Mii app seems like it is at least five years too late.

Step 1: Find more ways to make Miitomo more appealing.
Step 2: Put up more appealing awards on My Nintendo.

Feel free to do either of these things, any time now Nintendo.

Earning coins for what? Gambling in Miitomo?

This new system is a joke compared to Club Nintendo.

I can't use Miitomo, because I... I HAVE A BLACKBERRY

Have to admit that two coins is a pretty lousy reward but I think what people REALLY need to be motivated to play the game is making it actually fun, and some longevity would be nice too!

I've got 1300 coins, for doing almost nothing, but 0 miitomo points.

i don't have Miitomo and an android to play
(although 1020 silver coins, and 100 gold coins and i want to save those for a game that i really want.)

@MysteryAozz Just remember to check the expiry date of your coins. You could use them for something now even if you don't want it that much and collect more coins again for another reward that interests you more. After all, the rewards available now are quite recent and anything new won't appear for a few months.

I'm sorry but this program is totally bogus to me. Do these activities on an app that gets boring after about 20 minutes of playing it for the first time. Then you can get a 15 dollar discount on an older game that might be cheaper to purchase if you just head out to gamestop, Amazon or Ebay. Miitomo for sure is very cute and all but if it had some Mario Party type activities with online friends then it might actually be fun. I was also hoping I could transfer some games from my NEW 3DS to my 3DSXL which I'm planning to keep. But this program still keeps those apps locked to one system. I would love to save up some storage on my New 3ds by moving apps over to my XL. Heck even if it deleted off the New 3ds that's ok. It would give me some storage to work with.

Xbox and PS just have much better rewards - an annual membership fee of $30-$40 (equivalent to less than the price of one Nintendo game) give you free games every month.

@roy130390 What? Those coins have expiry date?

Got 3k coins an nothing to spend them on. I just recently stopped using Miitomo because of that.

In my humble opinion, MyNintendo will only start becoming really cool once usage of games on consoles will register into it. The way I understand this will dub as both a fidelity programme and a trophy, aka achievements, system for the NX. The sameway that, in my opinion, there will be some sort of core integration of some of the Miitomo services onto the NX, like for example your Miitomo clothes carrying onto your avatar for the console. Which is why I made sure since launch to get all the clothes that represented me best, cause I don't see why they wouldn't do that. The data is on a server, it's very easy for them to use it across more than just Miitomo.

It's crap. Just crap. Sorry

Miitomo is such a waste of time. I'm happy that I uninstalled it.

@SuperCharlie78 That wasn't "Question of the Day," that was "Everybody Answers." That event may yet continue as well.

Nope, still not playing Miitomo!

The more ways to get Platinum coins, the better. When (if) they start having better rewards, I'll be ready with my stockpile. I'll worry about the expiring coins when/if it comes.

It'll be just like Club Nintendo when it had those limited quantity/ better items towards the end of its run. I haven't forgot about how it was like with Club Nintendo in the beginning and middle with the stickers, stationary and other small rewards.

My main gripe is just that Miitomo is just so boring to use. I'm just going through the motions for coins. As soon as I can get coins from Fire Emblem or Animal Crossing, or both, Miitomo is going in the bin!