Nintendo Club 2014 Rewards Announced

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Megatron:
While I agree it was a bit shady to announce a physical version shortly after offering the free digital options, some people are getting really whiny about Nintendo, as of late. - and I don't mean on this forum, but the internet as a whole.

I'm no Nintendo fanboy (if anything, I qualify as an Xbox fanboy), but Nintendo is really moving past its competition in a lot of ways and i think people are getting spoiled by it. No one else offers the rewards system Nintendo does. Sure, Xbox live and PSN have their Gold and Plus accounts, but Nintendo actually rewards you for buying it games. The other two give you older games for free, but you pay $60 a year for it, and in PSN and Xbox One, if you cancel your membership, those games go away. I would LOVE if Nintendo gave away physical copies of their games, but that means production costs. Digital is cheap, and therefore can provide more options. I, for one, was thrilled to get a free copy of a $40 game. Digital or not. People gripe about not being able to get a small plastic mushroom, and I understand some people want TANGIBLE items, but to say Nintendo is slipping is just the anger talking.

FritzWhite:
I remember them doing the same thing with Ducktales. I'm glad I didn't buy the digital version first

larryinc64:

--- Quote from: Megatron on July 26, 2014, 05:43:38 PM ---While I agree it was a bit shady to announce a physical version shortly after offering the free digital options, some people are getting really whiny about Nintendo, as of late. - and I don't mean on this forum, but the internet as a whole.

I'm no Nintendo fanboy (if anything, I qualify as an Xbox fanboy), but Nintendo is really moving past its competition in a lot of ways and i think people are getting spoiled by it. No one else offers the rewards system Nintendo does. Sure, Xbox live and PSN have their Gold and Plus accounts, but Nintendo actually rewards you for buying it games. The other two give you older games for free, but you pay $60 a year for it, and in PSN and Xbox One, if you cancel your membership, those games go away. I would LOVE if Nintendo gave away physical copies of their games, but that means production costs. Digital is cheap, and therefore can provide more options. I, for one, was thrilled to get a free copy of a $40 game. Digital or not. People gripe about not being able to get a small plastic mushroom, and I understand some people want TANGIBLE items, but to say Nintendo is slipping is just the anger talking.

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Yeah, I agrre a bit, maybe we are so spoiled because it started out with much better stuff and then there was a decline in quality.

BadChad:
Well, I'm not gonna lie. A lot of us are sounding a little whiney and spoiled over the Club Nintendo thing, but a lot of that has do with the decline in the quality of the rewards as larry mentioned. Which, has also been a pretty fast and steady decline. It's a little hard not to get a little upset when year after year, rewards were generally great rewards, only to suddenly have them basically strip not only the regular rewards, but the Elite and Gold rewards as well to practically nothing in comparison to what we were given in the past. But to defend myself a bit, my loss in faith with Nintendo has been slowly declining long before all this (The NES Remix announcement after I JUST used my Elite prize really doesn't help). Let's face it, we all know Nintendo just hasn't been what they use to be the past few years. Everything seems like slow progress.

For me, a lot of it comes from how Nintendo has handled Super Smash Bros over the past few years (for various reasons). They are trying to get there by finally accepting the (HUGE) competitive scene with the tournaments and such they've been hosting. But it always seems like Nintendo is too busy living in their own special world to truly pay attention to the way things are evolving, or to listen to what it is people really want. Something that would truly benefit them at this time.

Don't get me wrong though. I still love Nintendo, and I'll always continue to support their titles I'm firmly committed to. But I'm not going to pretend that Nintendo hasn't been continuously dropping the ball on us lately.

Jeff:
I remember being glad to get Majora's Mask free last year. That was even for gold iirc. I think Nintendo got the wrong idea when last year people were saying "oh digital games, neat." I don't have a problem with digital games personally; Nintendo doesn't do online DRM so if you back up your games they'll last as long as you can take care of them. The choices are just bad. Replace all of those NES games with GBA ones and offer the big titles like 3D World, Zelda HD, Mario Kart 8, or Pokemon. It would be a bigger potential loss but it would be a worthwhile thank you for all the user input they're getting.

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