RIP Club Nintendo

[Hiro]

http://www.polygon.com/2015/1/20/7856045/club-nintendo-ending-wii-u-3ds

Hopefully the program that replaces it won't be such a let-down. But hey at least I'm going to end with Platinum status  

[The artist formally known]

lol i bet it will suck more

[ME##]

*Puts 3DS on Craigslist*

[Samus Aran]

way to end it with a bang. have the worst year for club nintendo ever and then just pull the plug.

[The artist formally known]

way to end it with a bang. have the worst year for club nintendo ever and then just pull the plug.

After they did the same exact thing with their forums I don't think we should be surprised.

[Samus Aran]

i bet it was NOA_ANDY who decided to end Club Nintendo

[YPrrrr]

Yknow if Nintendo gave out classic games for free ala psn people would go crazy for it. Although that might ruin their strategy of remaking every game that ever made them money

This probably has little to do with club Nintendo but the name made me think of it.

[ME##]

Yknow if Nintendo gave out classic games for free ala psn people would go crazy for it. Although that might ruin their strategy of remaking every game that ever made them money

This probably has little to do with club Nintendo but the name made me think of it.

y'know maybe if nintendo didn't try to just mechanically recreate what made people enjoy the n64 it'd make them a lot of money

[Nyerp]

its going to be replaced with a paid online subscription like ps+

[don't let's]

Can't get most of my surveys to go through.

[Hiro]

way to end it with a bang. have the worst year for club nintendo ever and then just pull the plug.

how do you mean

[bluaki]

I hope the physical rewards they're adding in February will be decent and in stock long enough for me to claim.

way to end it with a bang. have the worst year for club nintendo ever and then just pull the plug.

how do you mean

Kaz's opinion may differ, but the reasons I think last year was Club Nintendo's worst year are:
1. Elite Status Rewards in 2014 and 2015 are all-digital
2. For quite a long time in the past year or two, there have been no physical rewards except Grill-Off and greeting cards, which are both junk
3. In the rare occasion they did add something nice (Luigi figure, 3DS XL charging cradle), it sold out immediately after no prior announcement and never returned

I think these points apply a bit more to the 2013-2014 year than to the current 2014-2015 year.

They did manage to pick up the act a little bit just over the last couple months, by adding the Smash promo (Mewtwo+CD) and 3 decent-enough rewards: Smash Bros posters (albeit overpriced compared to their previous poster sets), 3DS game card case, and a T-Shirt. Two of those disappeared from stock yesterday almost immediately after the closing announcement.

[me003]

well club nintendo kind of sucked from the start. IMO

[Hiro]

Kaz's opinion may differ, but the reasons I think last year was Club Nintendo's worst year are:
1. Elite Status Rewards in 2014 and 2015 are all-digital
2. For quite a long time in the past year or two, there have been no physical rewards except Grill-Off and greeting cards, which are both junk

I get points 2 and 3 but yeah I guess he's more referring to the past year. I recall there being multiple poster sets in recent years as well, along with those wrist straps, 3DS felt bags, and a few other lame physical items. I don't even know what Grill-Off is though
and yeah 2014's reward sucked but we have no idea what 2015's platinum reward is going to be
i am considering that 3DS game case right now, but I'm curious to see what other stuff they're coming out with in February. This month's selection of eshop games is a bit better than usual, but I have all the games that i'd want out of those

[Hiro]

also I would have loved to get the Game & Watch and gold nunchuck when they were available, but I did get the Hanafuda cards at least, which are nice. I am considering buying one of those docks off ebay though