Club Nintendo Rewards Program Closing Schedule Announced, Use Your Coins By June 30

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Club Nintendo will soon shut down its services. Here's what to expect in the coming months.

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[thundervore]

Its like Nintendo is trying to piss off as many loyal fans as possible. First the new 3DS with no charger, now Club Nintendo shutdown. Whats next no more free game included when you buy a new system?

 

[coolitic]

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@thundervore, no charger is because most people already have many ds chargers piling up (most of the people I know anyways) and it isn't that expensive to get a charger. Also, nobody I know uses Club Nintendo (maybe register once but not used actively)

 

[VeggieburgrCyndaquil]

Chargers are $1.50 at my nearest Walmart. They are $3 at ToyRus. The used game stores have them for $0.50.

 

[eastyy]

Shame they did nothing for us in europe

 

[Spanky Deluxe]

Stuff like this really alienates their customers. I used to be a big fan of Nintendo stuff and collected a lot of stars (what they called points in the European store). I bought a Gamecube, loads of games for that, Gameboy Advance and a Wii, loads of games for that too. I had thousands of points collected but kept them saved up as the only rewards online that I was interested in were the memory cards etc that sold out really fast. I had no interest in using the points for background pictures etc which was all that was offered.

Then suddenly, Nintendo decided to change their policy to say that any nintendo points older than a year would expire. Still, the items that I wanted to spend them on didn't appear and I ended up losing thousands and thousands of stars. I had enough for several physical rewards but they were always instantly out of stock in the store.

That change in policy felt like a betrayal to a loyal customer and honestly, I haven't bought a nintendo product since. No game, no no console, nothing. Loyalty meant something to me and Nintendo threw it in my face.

 

[rinder]

So what, I have to buy a charger separate its not like they cost a lot to begin with and besides it adds weight to shipment which jacks prices up. Technically by separating it from the system it actually saves the consumer money. example lets say shipment was $3 for less than 10 lbs and anything higher than that cost $10 if the new 3ds was 9.5 lbs and the charger was 0.5 lbs it would be much more cost effective separating it than it would be packaging it in the same box.