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Club Nintendo: Tips for Reaching Platinum Status

Earning Coins Through Surveys

by Matthew Blundon - July 26, 2010, 7:41 am EDT

Here are some tips to get the most out of Club Nintendo surveys.

Budget Your Surveys

One thing that many Club Nintendo members are unaware of is that surveys for different games expire at different times. You have five years to complete a survey from the game’s launch date. For example, a survey for New Super Mario Bros. Wii will expire in 2014, whereas one for Super Mario Galaxy 2 will last until 2015.

When redeeming surveys, always start with the surveys that will expire the soonest. This should be done for every type of survey, whether it be product registration or post-play. This way you will no longer have to worry about your surveys expiring, and you will always have some surveys remaining to use in future years.

Complete Post-Play Surveys

Besides completing product registration surveys, there are also surveys that allow you to evaluate what you thought of a particular game. These usually appear a couple of weeks after purchasing a downloadable game, and within days after completing a product registration survey. All downloadable games released after October 2008 qualify for these surveys. By completing them you can net yourself 10 extra coins.

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Talkback

mustbeburtJuly 26, 2010

where are these tips?

TJ SpykeJuly 26, 2010

I don't see a list, I do have some tips though:

1)Always indicate that you intend to buy a game that appears on the Club Nintendo site. You will have like 3 years to register the game to get those 10 bonus coins.
2)Try to buy and register a game as close to the release date as possible, you get bonus coins if you register a game within 3 weeks of its release.
3)Don't forget to do all follow-up surveys for those extra 10 coins.
4)Remember to link up your Wii Shop Channel account with your Club Nintendo account so that all Virtual Console and WiiWare purchases will automatically contribute coins to your account.

Click on the other pages over on the right sidebar.

BlackNMild2k1July 26, 2010

Shouldn't there be a "next page" button at the bottom of the article?


no one is looking to click in a table of contents off to the side to get through the article.

Yes, yes, and yes.  It's a bug, we're working on it.

Undone by a link.

Retro DeckadesJuly 26, 2010

Quote from: TJ

1)Always indicate that you intend to buy a game that appears on the Club Nintendo site. You will have like 3 years to register the game to get those 10 bonus coins.

I think I remember seeing an expiration date of about a month the last time I filled out an "intend to buy" survey.

TJ SpykeJuly 26, 2010

Maybe they changed it? I just checked and it says I have until February 16, 2014 to register Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon and get the 10 coin bonus.

Retro DeckadesJuly 26, 2010

Quote from: TJ

Maybe they changed it? I just checked and it says I have until February 16, 2014 to register Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon and get the 10 coin bonus.

Hmmm, interesting. Perhaps, for some reason, they are really pushing Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon? It's the only game on my "Earn Coins" list that sits there asking me to register it, though I don't remember ever filling out an "Intend to Buy" survey.

I'm actually tempted to pick up Link's Crossbow Training - $25 for 50 Club Nintendo points, a WiiWare game and a piece of plastic to shuck.

gojiraJuly 26, 2010

I have a few tips myself. 

1. If you buy a used game from Gamefly you still get the Club Nintendo code. 

2. Relieve your friends/family of their codes if they don't use Club Nintendo.

UncleBobRichard Cook, Guest ContributorJuly 27, 2010

Quote:

With each passing year, gamers are finding it increasingly difficult to collect enough coins to reach Platinum status, and too often end up in a panic at year's end.

Really?  "Each passing year"?  We *just* started the third year.

Well...it was harder this year than last. Less older games around to register.

If the past two years' Platinum rewards are any indicator, there are cheaper ways to get essentially the same thing Nintendo will give out than hoarding Club Nintendo coins.

The Gold/Platinum awards may not be anything great, but these tips will also load up your account with coins that can be spent on other Club Nintendo rewards... which are also not anything great...

Quote from: Jonnyboy117

The Gold/Platinum awards may not be anything great, but these tips will also load up your account with coins that can be spent on other Club Nintendo rewards... which are also not anything great...

You get a point for making my counter-argument for me.

The Game and Watch titles are cool.

Except I already bought the Japanese versions on eBay years ago for not much money.

Quote from: Jonnyboy117

The Gold/Platinum awards may not be anything great, but these tips will also load up your account with coins that can be spent on other Club Nintendo rewards... which are also not anything great...

Well, the posters look nice. And if Goozex can come through for me, I'll be able to trade in the Game and Watch Collections for two games I've been looking for - one of them for about a decade - so that's nice.

ShediNJha01October 17, 2010

I know this is kinda late, but i just bought Link's Crossbow Training for under $2 and still got the 50 coins.

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