Topic: Fly Your Way into This Month's Club Nintendo Games

[Steel Diver]

Pilotwings and StarTropics II among this month's Club Nintendo games.

http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/news/35342

This month's Club Nintendo rewards are Zoda's Revenge: StarTropics II, Pilotwings, Art Academy: First Semester, and Mario vs. Donkey Kong: Minis March Again!.

Zoda's Revenge: StarTropics II was one of the later NES games released in 1994. Like many other games, the story consists of an alien invasion you must save the world from. This time though, you have to travel through history to do it. This can be yours for 150 coins and can be played on the Wii or Wii Mode on the Wii U.

The SNES classic Pilotwings is the next reward. For 150 coins you can fly planes, skydive, and be a penguin diving from tall heights. It is playable on the Wii and Wii Mode on the Wii U. You can also then upgrade this copy to the Wii U version for $1.50 on the eShop.

Art Academy: First Semester is filled with lessons on how to be an artist. Fun fact, Salvador Dali used this game to learn how to paint. Though it is a DSiWare title, to get it through Club Nintendo you have to download it on the 3DS eShop. It is only 150 coins.

Finally is Mario vs. Donkey Kong: Minis March Again!. In this entry of the series, Donkey Kong kidnaps Pauline, most likely due to self confidence issues that made him feel he was not worthy of Peach. Conduct a group of Mario toys in order to take down the banana eating menace. You can download it on the 3DS eShop for 150 coins.

[Shaymin]

There's three repeats there, and I think Pilotwings was back in... May? I understand they have to use 1st party stuff, but they shouldn't cycle back around THAT quickly.

(And if they're going to cycle around, can we get Xevious/Twinbee 3D Classics on there?)

[chilenozo]

God damn Nintendo, for the 3rd straight month there is nothing that interest me on the Wii Club Nintendo rewards!!...the Wii games are nothing, and they haven't add any fancy and collectable items that are worth

The SNES Pilotwins thing is a (bad) joke...it's already available on the WiiU eshop for Christ sake. Where's TLoZ ALTTP?, where's Kirby?, where's Mario64?, TLoZ Ocarina?, Yoshi's story?, yoshi's island?

The only good news come from WiiU's VC now that Breath of Fire 2 will be available next Thursday.

[Adrock]

Godammit, Nintendo. Why aren't my rewards better? I demand better things from this generous offer that other first party companies don't have on their consoles. The world owes me things.

[BlackNMild2k1]

Well, if you are going to offer rewards for loyal consumers who take time to register these products and provide feedback through repetitive surveys, you could atleast provide rewards that make that effort not feel so wasted.

It's not like they are giving something for nothing. They are giving back to those who support their products and provide feedback. After this recent Platinum award, I haven't had the slightest motivation to even register a single thing towards platinum this year as I don't really see the point in participating if it's not worth my time and efforts.

[Soren]

If I didn't want Pilotwings back when it was 100 coins, what makes you think I want it now that it's 150?

[Nemo]

Just to join the complain train: I think that if a game is out on Wii and Wii U, you should be able to download either version, not be forced to upgrade your "free reward" to the best version for $1.50.

Personally, I'll be saving my coins for future offers.

[pokepal148]

Well, if you are going to offer rewards for loyal consumers who take time to register these products and provide feedback through repetitive surveys, you could atleast provide rewards that make that effort not feel so wasted.

It's not like they are giving something for nothing. They are giving back to those who support their products and provide feedback. After this recent Platinum award, I haven't had the slightest motivation to even register a single thing towards platinum this year as I don't really see the point in participating if it's not worth my time and efforts.

Meanwhile there are people like me who are considering going to gamestop and raiding the used game shelf in search of unused club nintendo pins.

[Adrock]

Well, if you are going to offer rewards for loyal consumers who take time to register these products and provide feedback through repetitive surveys, you could atleast provide rewards that make that effort not feel so wasted.

I disagree because they're entirely optional and they don't require much more than a minimal effort. You can expel even less effort by just randomly choosing options and entering gibberish into the fields. I don't write a graduate thesis for each answer, but I respond honestly. If you're time is so valuable that you can't take the time to complete those surveys, you probably shouldn't be playing videogames to begin with.

It's not like they are giving something for nothing. They are giving back to those who support their products and provide feedback. After this recent Platinum award, I haven't had the slightest motivation to even register a single thing towards platinum this year as I don't really see the point in participating if it's not worth my time and efforts.

Then, don't. That is certainly you're right. If you don't find the rewards worthwhile, you already know what to do (or not do).

Club Nintendo rewards only cost a minute of your time to fill out each short survey. Otherwise, they are free because you didn't buy the product for the sole intention of earning Club Nintendo rewards. If you did, you're gaming wrong.

Personally, I'll be saving my coins for future offers.

And so you should. That's really the best way to go about it. I've only redeemed three rewards from Club Nintendo: the gold Nunchuk, the 3DS game card case, and the pouch I carrying my 3DS XL in. All worth it in my book. That's about $50 I saved for items in stores, just for buying games I wanted anyway.

Of course, the rewards could be better. Everyone likes nice things. I just think it's silly to complain about an optional program that offers rewards.

Meanwhile there are people like me who are considering going to gamestop and raiding the used game shelf in search of unused club nintendo pins.

If you don't mind be a total dick, you can probably get them from new games that GameStop guts and puts on shelves.

[pokepal148]

no, i'm not gonna raid new games(even if i can certainly get away with it)

[chilenozo]

Godammit, Nintendo. Why aren't my rewards better? I demand better things from this generous offer that other first party companies don't have on their consoles. The world owes me things.

We'll I've been following the Club Nintendo Rewards since 2010, and they are going down in terms of quality and quantity. Back then I didn't have enough coins to get the stuff i wanted, now that I have the rewards sucks, even the year prizes suck.

Since the WiiU came, there have been 2 or 3 digital games I bought thinking that they were overpriced but the combination of digital deluxe promo and club Nintendo points would make those purchases a bit less painful, or plain good.

I bet most of the NWR ppl love Nintendo and took those CN surveys very seriously, and found that Club Ninty would be also a nice place to get rewards. Even the cheap never-ending (and impossible) rewards programs you get from super-stores have good prizes even if they are priced so high that are impossible to get. I feel entitled to complain, specially when they launch Pilotwings, a game that has been cheaper on Club Ninty, and it cost 1.50 on the VC.

[Adrock]

You are, of course, entitled to complain just as I am entitled to think your complaints are silly (which I do, nothing personal).

I think it's especially silly that you would compare Club Nintendo to a rewards programs where the prizes are impossible to attain. What the **** is the point of that rewards program then? "Oh, look at all the great prizes I will NEVER get." With Club Nintendo, at least you can get stuff almost immediately. If you think all that stuff sucks, well, you know what to do. Hint: stop registering games and filling out the surveys. If you continue to anyway, you're just furthering your own disappointment.

[ejamer]

... I feel entitled to complain, ...

But after you get "paid" for your effort in Club Nintendo coins, doesn't that entitlement go away? After all, you received exactly what was promised: any disappointment beyond that point stems from your own faulty expectations/valuations causing.  (Only half kidding here.)


I agree with Adrock though. If you don't like the rewards program, just don't participate. Don't let some virtual coins and potential rewards influence your purchasing decisions, instead earn some good karma by giving away any codes you end up with to people who do get excited about such things.

[chilenozo]

... I feel entitled to complain, ...

But after you get "paid" for your effort in Club Nintendo coins, doesn't that entitlement go away? After all, you received exactly what was promised: any disappointment beyond that point stems from your own faulty expectations/valuations causing.  (Only half kidding here.)


I agree with Adrock though. If you don't like the rewards program, just don't participate. Don't let some virtual coins and potential rewards influence your purchasing decisions, instead earn some good karma by giving away any codes you end up with to people who do get excited about such things.

but i started the program when the rewards were good but i had no coins for it....i have barely spend my coins due to i keep waiting when those good old times will come back, or they upload other games.

and from a marketing point of view it is obvious Nintendo has Club Nintendo has an extra mean to attract costumers and they probably use it to collect feedback. They are a business, they don't do charity...and i think they could have a better service. And I'm sure I let them know this after every survey, and i hope many other disappointed fans do so too.

[ejamer]

but i started the program when the rewards were good but i had no coins for it....i have barely spend my coins due to i keep waiting when those good old times will come back, or they upload other games.
...

What were the "good" rewards that enticed you so much?  What was the bat that later got switched out to leave you so disenfranchised?


I'm only asking because I don't feel there has been a huge change in quality with the exception of a few special, usually limited-quantity items.  For me, the digital rewards they are currently offering are consistently more interesting and "valuable" than the average stuff that was sold before.  Obviously you feel differently.

[Wah]

Gotta'hack em'all!

[Zieborn]

Well, Star Tropics 2 is the one there I like the best, but I have both Star Tropics games on cart (complete in box, including the little magic ink letter for the first one), so nothing for me this month.  If you haven't played the ST games though you should totally get them.  They have a very "Earthbound" feel to them.  I got them on blow-out sale shortly after the SNES launched and have loved them ever since. 

[Zieborn]

Where's the edit button here?  I meant to say "shortly after the SNES died."