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Club Nintendo Discussion: Drastic fall in survey values coming on July 1
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UncleSporky
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Taichu said:
This is sort of a new thing. Recently they changed how coins were displayed to make it very clear that coins will actually expire and disappear after a certain amount of time has passed. Not just platinum resetting, but actual coins you've earned will be lost. Notice how it shows coins you've earned and clearly says "coins earned this year will expire 20xx."
lastflowers
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ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Jive Turkey
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No Tranny Surprise tab makes this pic fail.lastflowers said:
Shadowlink
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Are you getting Zelda OoT 3D? Might as well wait until then if you're getting it.lastflowers said:
lastflowers
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I own neither. That'd be really awesome man.Wario64 said:
Neuromancer
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I think OoT will land me exactly on 600 if I'm doing my math right. And if Club Nintendo doesn't take away my ill-gotten gains (it counted me linking my 3DS twice.)
RomanticHeroX
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Wow, why are the Wii Select games worth so much? I just got 60 coins for registering the Wii Select version of Twilight Princess.
RomanticHeroX said:
Did you get an Early Registration bonus? Check your coin totals and see... the Nintendo Selects came out less than a month ago, and if they qualify as new products (they DO have different ISBN numbers), they could be eligible for the 10 points bonus for registration within 30 days of release.
meltingparappa
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Well, I wasn't going to buy Ocarina of Time, but it'll give me exactly enough coins for platinum status. SHUCKS.
RomanticHeroX
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Yeah, that makes sense. Still, for a $20 game I was only expecting maybe 20 coins out of it.DavidDayton said:
perfectchaos007
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Im at 520 for the year right now and have 16 surveys I can do. I guess I need to force myself to do 8 of them before June 30
Davey Cakes
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No need to "force" yourself to do them. Just do them, and be thorough. I think the more thorough we all are with these surveys, the better. Club Nintendo becomes more respectable when the members actually put forth the effort, and if Nintendo notices the effort they made reward people even more for the dedication.perfectchaos007 said:
So, yeah, try to enjoy doing those surveys!
Thanks for confirming that. It proves that early registration counts for Wii Select, which was one of the mysteries I've been wanting solved.RomanticHeroX said:
For anyone else planning to use this, the early registration period ends either today or tomorrow, so get in quick if you want 70 instead of 60 coins for a Wii Select title (this includes the post-play survey).
I know this is probably a stupid question and I am missing something obvious, but I went back several pages and still couldn't find the answer: is there any way to tell on your account exactly how many coins for 2009 that will be expiring that I should spend? I see the total coin activity per year, but unless I am completely blind it doesn't say I will lose X number of coins, it just shows the total # I earned that year (which is more than my total current balance).
Jive Turkey
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You might want to hold off until the last week just in case they spring a last minute general satisfaction survey that they have in the past. Can't hurt to wait as long as you don't forget.perfectchaos007 said:
It is apparently really easy to see the expiry message, so yeah, you almost certainly aren't losing any. Could somebody that has one please tell us exactly where it is or post an image to make answering this question easier? To confirm, just take that total earned in 2009 and compare it to your total spend over the whole time (click on all three years and add up the negatives). If you have spent more coins than you earned in 2009, you won't have any expiring.SailorDaravon said:
How do the Wii Select coins work, do they register as "Wii Select Zelda" or do they just register as "Zelda"?
Someone swapped me a Mario Super Sluggers code in a previous year. At $20 I would consider picking it up if I knew I'd get the points for it
...wouldn't mind trying the game, so I might do it either way, but the points would sure help convince me.
Someone swapped me a Mario Super Sluggers code in a previous year. At $20 I would consider picking it up if I knew I'd get the points for it
...wouldn't mind trying the game, so I might do it either way, but the points would sure help convince me.perfectchaos007
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Jive Turkey said:
True, and most of the surveys I have left are good for 3-5 more years. I'd prefer to save them considering all new surveys expire in a few weeks and it would be good to have some long lasting surveys in my back pocket in case I'm short just a few coins in the future for the next level. btw unless the WiiU releases before June 30, 2012 there is no way I'm getting platinum next year. And its going to be the first year I don't reach that plataeu
Shadowlink
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Anyone waiting until the 30th of June to register Zelda? I don't want to risk it, but I already hit platinum. :/
Shadowlink
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Oh well! The Awesome Zelda OST>30 coins hahaBusaiku said:
Oni Link 666
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Are the "Mario Nintendo DS Game Rack"s any good? I have like 50+ DS and 3DS games that need racking.
Given that they have early registration bonuses, it is extremely likely that they count as something different to the original games.SickBoy said:How do the Wii Select coins work, do they register as "Wii Select Zelda" or do they just register as "Zelda"?
Someone swapped me a Mario Super Sluggers code in a previous year. At $20 I would consider picking it up if I knew I'd get the points for it
Actually, it's 40 or 50 coins, depending if you Intended to Buy or not. Still worth it, though.Shadowlink said:
Oni Link 666
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antonz said:
That won't do at all. I'm currently using a couple of bookends to hold up 50+ games and was hoping to get something a bit cooler looking.
New information...
1) The Nintendo Select titles -do- have the 10 point Early Registration bonus.
2) Nintendo Selects Wii Sports -does- have a registration code, good for the standard 50 coins.
3) You can register a game AND its Nintendo Selects version as separate titles.
I had already registered Mario Super Sluggers (someone swapped me a reg. code last year), but I was able to register my Nintendo Selects copy as well. It appears in the list as Mario Super Sluggers (Nintendo Selects).
4) You can "hold off" on registration of new Wii titles (I did it for Wii Sports), but it looks like new titles have a 7 day time frame. I registered Wii Sports but left the survey incomplete -- the expiration date for the survey is 06/18/2011.
I need to spend some coins. In theory, I could have saved some of these for registration in a few weeks, but such is life.
1) The Nintendo Select titles -do- have the 10 point Early Registration bonus.
2) Nintendo Selects Wii Sports -does- have a registration code, good for the standard 50 coins.
3) You can register a game AND its Nintendo Selects version as separate titles.
I had already registered Mario Super Sluggers (someone swapped me a reg. code last year), but I was able to register my Nintendo Selects copy as well. It appears in the list as Mario Super Sluggers (Nintendo Selects).
4) You can "hold off" on registration of new Wii titles (I did it for Wii Sports), but it looks like new titles have a 7 day time frame. I registered Wii Sports but left the survey incomplete -- the expiration date for the survey is 06/18/2011.
I need to spend some coins. In theory, I could have saved some of these for registration in a few weeks, but such is life.
Shadowlink
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There are a bunch of games releasing next year, and I have a few games that I haven't registered yet. I think 40-50 coins wouldn't be a huge loss for the next year. The Zelda OST will be amazing though! I'm glad Nintendo is giving that out to those registering their games.Clipper said:
DXB-KNIGHT
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WooHoo reached Platinum XD
Mockingbird
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I wonder if this year's platinum will be zelda 25th anniversary related.
There is never any official word. It could be the set of badges Japan got this time around:zethren said:
But that's just a guess. As for every year, we won't know what it is until after the deadline.
Thanks for checking that. Only 2 & 3 are new, though. 4 is just the new survey timeouts. We already knew that games registered after March 25 have a week after registration unless you had already filled out an Intend to Buy survey for that game (if you had done the ItB, you still get the old 5 year expiry).DavidDayton said:
Oh, and here's another piece of new information. The website has been updated with info on the new Pokedex and Excitebike surveys. According to the terms and conditions, this will apply to every 3D Classic and 3DSWare game (not just the Nintendo ones).
Now we just have to wait for another day or two for the post play surveys to show up so we know how much we'll be getting for them...
BurritoBushido
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Protip: Make friends with people who work at gamestop. My friend just snagged a bunch out of used games and I jumped from barely gold to platinum status last night
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