Delight Your Friends By Sending Them 8-Bit Super Mario iMessages

I'd never pay $1.99 for virtual stickers, but if they want to price them at $1.99 and give them to people for 500 Super Mario Run platinum coins in MyNintendo I'd be OK with that.

But....but it costs money

Sigh...I used the pokemon ones a lot so I will likely get this eventually.

No love for Android?

I like how the Switch has made Nintendo "cool" again with the general public. It means more merchandise and overall mainstream presence. It's entirely validating.

Ehem...
Imagine if there is a 8-bit of Shirtless Mario.

@thesilverbrick I love you Liz Lemon.

@rjejr I was just gonna say that Nintendo should offer this pack as a My Nintendo offer. Redeem "x" amount of Platinum coins (that just sit there until they expire) and get an code for iTunes to redeedm this sticker pack! They really should have done that!

Already have these and other mario ones on LINE, but i see that ios gets a few exclusive stickers. Maybe I'll pirate those few.

I wish Nintendo would do a mobile release of the Super Mario and Animal Crossing Alarm clocks that were on DSiware. I would buy them on ITunes and use them every day.

@tadek900 Yeah, my lunch yesterday should have been free, too. And my car.

Those are cool, but too bad they are charging though. Uncharted Lost Legacy had free iMessage stickers which are pretty nice.

@tadek900 Wow...

@DarthFoxMcCloud @rjejr yeah, that would have been a great idea. Nintendo’s marketing and rewards people don’t seem very creative.

@Mr_Zurkon Nintneod + rewards dont' mix.

Spent $380 on the Switch Mario bundle last night, which roughly breaks down to $60 for Mario, $20 for a case that didn't include the advertised screen protector, and $300 for the console. So I redeemed the code with my linked NNID and NA but the gold coins dont' appear. So I'm thinking Nintneod decided not to reward us people who purchased the game in a bundle with a download code b/c probably in their mind we're getting it for free.

Or maybe it just takes some time? I'm cranky, little sleep, still getting used to all of the Switch's peculiarities.

@JarJarBlacks Haha, she's great. I miss that show so much.

Android?

@thesilverbrick 30 Rock is the best comedy (beside Parks and Rec). I always read your comments in Liz’s voice, haha.

I bought them. $1.99 is dirt cheap.

@DarthFoxMcCloud "Redeem "x" amount of Platinum coins"

I was going back and forth between 200 and 500, decided Nintneod was too cheap to go for 200. I prefer X though, I should have gone w/ that, it's a better answer.

2.29 EUR in Germany..what a rip-off...should be free to begin with, but even with tax 2.29 EUR is way too high compared to $2.

Donna's a jerk.

I bought them,just had to ; )

Wow,if only I had friends..and an iPhone..

pfft, who pays for sticker packs?

@rjejr congrats on getting one. It does have its quirks for sure! Lol

@Mr_Zurkon Thanks. I'll get used to it, just not today. But it's got a few good years left so I'm good.

@Kalmaro It is a feature of iMessage. So they wouldn't have an Android release. I'm sure there is an Android equivalent but Nintendo hasn't dipped their toes into that yet.

@Ryu_Niiyama Awwww...

Its advertising for Nintendo's ecosystem so yes they should be free of charge...Shareholders are impatient and let short-term profit hurt long-term strategy.

@rjejr I'm not sure they actually could depending on how Apple does their iMessage stickers. If they are able to do that, Apple might want a piece of the pie. One of Apple's policies is that they get a cut of microtransactions sold on their apps, and that includes stuff like Office 365 and Onedrive.

@Smash_kirby Well they could still do it, just give out codes on MyNintneod. It's been a while since I've done anything on iTunes, owed an iPod Touch 5 or 6 years ago, but I'm pretty sure there's a place to redeem codes. How can Apple not have give-aways of swag on iTunes? Surely they must give out codes at store opening and live events and such.

@rjejr I just looked it up, Nintendo has three options: Do a one time giveaway where Apple allows them to have 50-100 codes to give away, Make some of the stickers free, if possible, and lock others away behind paying for it fully and offer that as a My Nintendo reward through a special code to redeem, the third option is for them to offer the 50-100 codes then buy codes from Apple then offer those in MyNintendo for Gold coins, you earn silver coins just for popping onto the store.

Apple's rules kind of hamper Nintendo from elegantly doing what you would like them to do. I'm not even sure if the second option is even available for iMessage stickers.

Well crap! I just switched back to Android last week (I'm the kind that goes back and forth between both at quasi-random times.) So unless or until something like this makes it over here, I'm gonna have to miss out.

Aaaannnnddddd... Purchase!!!

@BoFiS
There are free Super Mario ones. It’s jyst this pack that’s not.

@NerdNoiseRadio
No worries. By the sounds of it you’ll be back soon. 😉

@Smash_kirby "Make some of the stickers free, if possible, and lock others away behind paying for it fully and offer that as a My Nintendo reward through a special code to redeem."

That sounds like the best way to do it, if, as you say, Apple lets them do it that way.

So much nuttiness over some emoji. Emoji should be free, screw Apple.

@rjejr Again I am not sure how purchasable emojis on iOS actually works, so the option you quoted might not even work with how Apple wants it to work.