[QUOTE="Jaysonguy"]
[QUOTE="J_Ford"]
From the FAQ on Club Nintendo, http://www.nintendo.com/consumer/club/en/faq.jsp#vers
Why are my Coins listed with an expiration date?
Unredeemed Coins will expire two (2) full Club Nintendo years (July 1 - June 30), plus whatever is left in the current Club Nintendo year, after they are earned. Example: Coins earned in March 2009 would not expire until June 30, 2011.
As for me, I haven't ordered anything yet other then the Mario Hat. I've been waiting for them to update the rewards, because there's really nothing that interests me too much right now. But I'll have to spend some of my coins bynext year because in 2008 I accumulated 820 coins, so I have until June 30, 2010 to spend those 820 coins. So because of that, I'll probly get either the Mario Party or Animal Crossing Playing Cards and the Wii Remote Holder. That way I'll spend 800 coins and only loose 20. I may even get the Hanafuda cards, but if I get the other rewards I can get two things instead of one, so I think it's better to get more for my coins if I can.
They really should update the rewards though. I mean there's too many DS items and not enough Wii items, 8-1 is a little ridiculous. Compared to Europe's Club Nintendo Catalog, ours is a joke to be honest. They get 6 pages with wonderful things to spend their stars on http://www.nintendo.co.uk/NOE/en_GB/club_nintendo/stars_catalogue_5823.html, hardly fair if you ask me.
Ovirew
Yes, in the future.
He had no reason to spend them now because we're nowhere near the expiration of them
Also Europe gets more because they get less when it comes to games so Nintendo tries to soften the blow by offering a few more things
Yeah I have no clue why he would waste his points like that, now it will just take him longer and cost him more money if he ever wants something neat they might add to the list in the future.Sorry I'm just kinda confused. Are you guys saying that I wasted my coins or are you talking about someone else? The reason why I accumulated 820 coins in 2008 was because I wanted to make sure I had enough to order anything I wanted, plus make sure I had Gold Status for 2009. So because I registered enough games to have that many coins it means I wasted them? How is that any different than someone spending 800 coins on the Game and Watch Collection? Whether I spend them in 2008 or wait 2 years to spend them doesn't really make much of a difference does it? For all we know, they may never update the rewards with anything better.
Not to mention that if you register your games, you also get to take Post Play surverys, and you get 10 coins for each of those. So if you guys are worried about having to waste money buying more games to get more codes for coins, you don't really have to spend as much as you think. You can save all your post play surveys, some don't expire for 3-4 years. Do enough of them and you can get quite a few extra coins. I've already got 100 coins towards my next Gold Status for 2010 just from doing post play surveys. And if you run out of Wii games to buy, there's also DS games. Even though you only get 30 coins for DS games you can still accumlate coins. There's a lot of first party Nintendo games for the DS.
When I said I've been waiting for them to update the rewards, that's just me hoping that they will. There's no guarantee it's going to happen. Those could be the only rewards we ever get in North America. So it really doesn't matter if you save all your codes and register your games at a later time, eventually we'll all end up spending our coins right? And if they never update the rewards in North America, does that mean you guys will never register any of your games. You'd just be wasting your coins then because you'd never spend them. In my opnion it's better to register your games while you can, and get the coins and save them for 2 years. At least that way you'll get something out of it even if it's not exactly what you wanted.
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