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Shiggy said:New privacy policy. Either accept it or have your account deleted :/
Everything comes at a price. I was surprised they weren't mandatory earlier.PumpkinPie said:Fucking 5-page survey every time I register a game? Fuck you, Nintendo.
Jo Shishido's Cheeks said:Ugh!
Been registering games basically since the 'star points' began back in the Gamecube era and had years and years and years of being offered no items whatsoever except for wallpapers and ringtones so never spent anything.
When the Wii came and you could finally use the stars for something (in this case, trading them for Wii Points) I put all of the stars I had into it.
Over 30,000 of them!
Then a few weeks later they started rolling out proper items, including the Zelda statue except now, I couldn't afford anything
So I started collecting again, hoping to get the Game & Watch DS game. When I was about 200 short, they stopped offering it
Ugh!
Got about 10,000 now though and hoping for something decent in the future.....
Then don't exchange your Stars for Nintendo Points. Seriously. Complaining about everything is the reason we never get something nice!Tempy said:Yeah, I wasted a lot of Star points on Wii Points. Such a terrible exchange rate.
wrowa said:Then don't exchange your Stars for Nintendo Points. Seriously. Complaining about everything is the reason we never get something nice!
This is one thing I've always disliked about the EU Club Nintendo. When they put up the unused PR items stock it sometimes sells out super quick and the vanished off the site entirely. Another one back in the dark ages, I tihnk in 2005 (back when stars catalgoue updates would crash the site as everyone rushed to get the items before they sold out) there was this Nintendogs Dog Kennel for 15000 stars and it sold out in like a minute.PumpkinPie said:I got my Mum the stainless steel Animal Crossing watch last year, it's pretty good although the face picture is not straight, I didn't want to return it in case they had no more in stock. I guess I could take it to a watch repair shop and get them to move the picture around slightly, it's probably only paper after all.
Can't find any pics of the watch online but it is decent, it cost 4000 points.
Thanks for the heads up! My brother is crazy for Animal Crossing so I'll grab this for him too.Nocturnowl said:In case anyone is interested the Animal Crossing CD is back up at 2000 stars
Why did you do this to me!?Starwolf_UK said:This is one thing I've always disliked about the EU Club Nintendo. When they put up the unused PR items stock it sometimes sells out super quick and the vanished off the site entirely. Another one back in the dark ages, I tihnk in 2005 (back when stars catalgoue updates would crash the site as everyone rushed to get the items before they sold out) there was this Nintendogs Dog Kennel for 15000 stars and it sold out in like a minute.
Ushojax said:Is it just me or does the EU Club require a lot more points for the decent prizes than the US one? You can get quality stuff like the Zelda or Mario poster sets for the equivalent of 6 Wii games on Club Nintendo US, but NoE expect you to give up the points from 20 Wii games for some measly pack of tiny game cases and a stylus.
Yeah they have some cool stuff like the soundtracks and SNES controller but they take the piss with the points required, plus they don't have the gold/platinum yearly rewards. I guess I'm glad I can order stuff from both as well as get my free Mario hat/figurine. NoE want me to hand over 7000 points (28 Wii games) for that? Hell no.
Allan Holdsworth said:Yeah but now 3rd party 3DS games come with coins so it evens it a bit.
Stars expiration is probably the biggest problem with the EU Club Nintendo. I blew all 6000 of my stars from the Gamecube era on Wii points when Nintendo decided to make them all expire - a few weeks later loads of great items appeared. I've also thrown away at least 15-20 stars slips over the years due to them expiring. It wouldn't be so bad if items weren't so severely overpriced, but when you need to buy 20 (Nintendo published) Wii games just for a set of styluses it's no surprise they expire long before getting used.Starwolf_UK said:5500 stars. 550 to expire this month.
My memories of the dark ages come from time to time and its all a bit vauge but I remember a lot of it being stuff like Official Nintendo Magazine free gifts only without the magazine and instead a 1000 stars price tag. They had posters for various games, I can't remember the sizing of them, B2 springs to mind but that may be wrong, I think Starfox Assault was one such game though that was also some Mairo one signed by Miyamoto (there were about 1500 stars). They had hardware on a shockingly often basis. Usually 10,000 stars for a Gamecube. I remember they had the limited to 300 Zelda Minish Cap bundle (which is just like the one you could buy in stores except with a numbered certificate and maybe T-shirt, might have been signed somehow too) which might have been 15,000 stars but probably 10,000. There was also the Nintendo VIP DS bundle, it was 1000 stars and then I think £130 and you got a DS system, US copies of Metroid Prime First Hunt and Super Mario 64 (might have been in EU packaging, can't remember), a T-shirt and a Wario Ware demo. It came with the Club Nintendo codes too but due to it being US versions local multiplayer with your friends who waited for EU launch wouldn't work...nice one NOE (they did a similar thing with the Miyamoto signing session in 2003, first 10 in line got signed US copies of Zelda LTTP and I think a GBA). Plus how I forget games, it was 5000 stars for Gamecube (one I remember Star Fox Assalut, Star Fox Adventures, Animal Crossing, Metroid Prime, Metroid Prime 2 and non-UK, Doshin the giant and Eternal Darkness) and 4000 for GBA (so yes new Club Nintendo cost more, any games like Metroid Fusion and Metroid Zero mission were on there...funny story about the latter is the Metroid update happened and I was gutted to miss Prime 2 so went for Zero Mission...got Prime 2 for £10 a couple of months later...thank you low stock catalogue...).Jo Shishido's Cheeks said:Why did you do this to me!?
I'd forgotten about those 'special' days where they would offer an extremely limited number of actual items. I actually tried going for the kennel. I was sooooo pissed off when I refreshed my page and they were instantly all gone.
Can you remember anything else they offered back then?
Seems we had the same dilemma in statue vs controller. Did you decide what to go for yet?
I'd like to think things like the DS styluss case or whatever its called were stupidly priced due to people being extremely wealthy from years of no expiration and free points on a daily basis (provided they visited the front page...and only the front page) but some of the more recent stuff being similarly "how in the fuck do I buy enough stuff in the 24 months you give me start to finish" makes me think NOE forget to turn the dial down. Or they just don't care.ShellyDeKiller said:750 stars, while other crap like stickers cost 4000. That must've been an accident lol
This makes me wonder how I would feel about a system which was a hybrid of actual money and stars with more stars meaning less money spent. You know kind of like this. I'm one of those mad people who would use the minimum stars and pay the maximum money and end up with 3 times as much as I want.Ushojax said:True, that is a great improvement but the prices are still absurd. That 7000 (28 Wii game) point Mario figurine was given out for free in the US when you registered the equivalent of 10 Wii games. It's crazy.
Were the GBASP systems both the same colour or not hardware bundles? I technically have 2 Gamecubes on my account. Gamecube and then Pokémon Colosseum Mega Pak (the code was in the game case* and gave me hardware amounts). I'm thinking hardware bundles count as different hardware as its game and hardware in one code so different to both game on own and hardware on own (I have both Gamecube and Pokemon Colosseum on account).Jackano said:For those who were asking themselves, you can still register old codes, like for Gamecube hardwares (400 stars for this example). You aren't anymore limited on those olds hardwares (back in 2005 you cannot register two GBASP systems, what I do recently).
Starwolf_UK said:Were the GBASP systems both the same colour or not hardware bundles? I technically have 2 Gamecubes on my account. Gamecube and then Pokémon Colosseum Mega Pak (the code was in the game case* and gave me hardware amounts). I'm thinking hardware bundles count as different hardware as its game and hardware in one code so different to both game on own and hardware on own (I have both Gamecube and Pokemon Colosseum on account).
*-Bought pre-owned in 2006 as it had the elusive Pokemon Box disc...wait Pokemon box? That reminds me thats another thing that was on Club Nintendo to buy. Zelda collectors edition and occasionally the master quest disc too (which they had to state was not collectors edition).
Hmmm, maybe it's that, different bundles!Starwolf_UK said:Were the GBASP systems both the same colour or not hardware bundles? I technically have 2 Gamecubes on my account. Gamecube and then Pokémon Colosseum Mega Pak (the code was in the game case* and gave me hardware amounts). I'm thinking hardware bundles count as different hardware as its game and hardware in one code so different to both game on own and hardware on own (I have both Gamecube and Pokemon Colosseum on account).
*-Bought pre-owned in 2006 as it had the elusive Pokemon Box disc...wait Pokemon box? That reminds me thats another thing that was on Club Nintendo to buy. Zelda collectors edition and occasionally the master quest disc too (which they had to state was not collectors edition).
I would like the Fire Emblem code, since that's probably the only game that I don't intend to purchase.JADS said:I got club Nintendo codes for:
Fire Emblem Shadow Dragon
I don't use them. If anyone wants one of them them quote this post and I will sent you the code(s) tomorrow afternoon.
JADS said:I got club Nintendo codes for:
Ace Attorney T&T
Advance Wars Dark Conflict
Pokémon White
Fire Emblem Shadow Dragon
I don't use them. If anyone wants one of them them quote this post and I will sent you the code(s) tomorrow afternoon.
I'll take any. ThanksJADS said:I got club Nintendo codes for:
Ace Attorney T&T
Advance Wars Dark Conflict
Pokémon White
I don't use them. If anyone wants one of them them quote this post and I will sent you the code(s) tomorrow afternoon.
Edit: Fire Emblem is gone
Stars entered into the system take 24 months to expire (tip, use my account > stars balance to work out when the first ones will be eroding). Slips (generally) are 3 and a half years from game release. So basically thats old than Link's Crossbow Training era has expired now (except if they're older than the expiration system itself).Azure Phoenix said:Anyone know how long you have until stars expire? I've got about 6000 on my account after being given a ton of stars leaflets by a friend, but even the 7000 stars items don't interest me, so I want to hang on to them in case anything interesting (like the Game & Watch items) come up again.
Starwolf_UK said:I remember reading somewhere the Club Nintendo Hanafuda cards were basically the medium quality ones Nintendo makes.
Anyway, Ocarina of Time is up for Stars bonus.
Edit: It seems according to Club Nintendo the following 3DS do not have Club Nintendo slips: SpongeBob SquigglePants (sorry WayForward fans), LEGO pirates of the Carbonate (I'm fairly sure LEGO star War 3 also lacks them)
Forgot about this thread, I picked up LEGO Star Wars III cheap on ebay and it came with an unused Club Nintendo slip, I don't know why the LEGO PotC is missing them though.Starwolf_UK said:I remember reading somewhere the Club Nintendo Hanafuda cards were basically the medium quality ones Nintendo makes.
Anyway, Ocarina of Time is up for Stars bonus.
Edit: It seems according to Club Nintendo the following 3DS do not have Club Nintendo slips: SpongeBob SquigglePants (sorry WayForward fans), LEGO pirates of the Carbonate (I'm fairly sure LEGO star War 3 also lacks them)