Just wanted to start up a general discussion about the new Club Nintendo that recently started in North America (yet has existed for years elsewhere around the world). If anyone previously had a MyNintendo account, Club Nintendo has replaced it, which isn't a bad thing considering all the freebies you can get now.
For any North Americans who've never had a MyNintendo account before, nor understand what Club Nintendo is about, it's basically an online service offered on the official Nintendo website that allows you to register your Nintendo products. For consoles, it can score you an extended warranty, but for games you can take short 6-questioned surveys to earn coins, and once you've earned enough coins you can redeem them for free gifts. Registering a Wii game scores you 50 coins, a DS game gives 30, and Wii Shop Channel purchases earn you 10 coins each - but only after doing the associated survey. If you manage to earn 300 coins you'll gain Gold status, while earning 600 coins will land you Platinum status. Supposedly at the end of each Club Nintendo year (June 30th) they send out these special freebies to Gold/Platinum status members, but we won't know what they'll be for awhile.
A paragraph from Ninty's press release:
I've already earned over 200 coins just from doing 5 surveys, so it's not that difficult to reach Gold status. At the moment I'm not overly interested in any of the offered gifts, so I'm going to sit on it for a bit to see what else pops up in the future. So... anyone else taking advantage of this yet?
Edit: I can has Platinum status.
For any North Americans who've never had a MyNintendo account before, nor understand what Club Nintendo is about, it's basically an online service offered on the official Nintendo website that allows you to register your Nintendo products. For consoles, it can score you an extended warranty, but for games you can take short 6-questioned surveys to earn coins, and once you've earned enough coins you can redeem them for free gifts. Registering a Wii game scores you 50 coins, a DS game gives 30, and Wii Shop Channel purchases earn you 10 coins each - but only after doing the associated survey. If you manage to earn 300 coins you'll gain Gold status, while earning 600 coins will land you Platinum status. Supposedly at the end of each Club Nintendo year (June 30th) they send out these special freebies to Gold/Platinum status members, but we won't know what they'll be for awhile.
A paragraph from Ninty's press release:
I've already earned over 200 coins just from doing 5 surveys, so it's not that difficult to reach Gold status. At the moment I'm not overly interested in any of the offered gifts, so I'm going to sit on it for a bit to see what else pops up in the future. So... anyone else taking advantage of this yet?
Edit: I can has Platinum status.
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