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Wow.. horrible cards are horrible. Wonder what japan got?

Artwork on posters is nice, but... eh....... Only way I am hanging a poster in my house is w/ frame.. way to go nintendo.

Originally Posted by mitch079 They are only free if they gave them to you. You fail to realize that you or someone else spent the money for you to get a deck of cards, presumably $200-$500 for them, depending on what you bought, if it was on sale, etc.

Dunno about you, but my Club Nintendo codes came with games. Delicious, delicious games.

If you're paying $200-$500 for these prizes, well... I don't know what to say to ya.

Originally Posted by mitch079 They are only free if they gave them to you. You fail to realize that you or someone else spent the money for you to get a deck of cards, presumably $200-$500 for them, depending on what you bought, if it was on sale, etc.

No, you spent the money to get a bunch of video games. The deck of cards is a free bonus that NoA gives to you for registering the games you already bought.

Anybody buying games just for the Club Nintendo codes is an idiot.

Originally Posted by mitch079 They are only free if they gave them to you. You fail to realize that you or someone else spent the money for you to get a deck of cards, presumably $200-$500 for them, depending on what you bought, if it was on sale, etc.

You're buying games though, not codes. We all have our games and got our moneys worth out of them presumably, these are just perks that come with our games.

I really don't mind the prizes, sure they may not be the best thing ever but they are better then nothing. That said I will most likely go with the posters as I have the other poster sets that they offered and I can actually get a use out of them where the cards I know I would just keep sealed.

Originally Posted by Blade Posts complaining about free stuff always make me laugh. I just picture these idiots being given $10 by a stranger and saying, "What, you ONLY gave me $10?! Bwaaaaargh, I'm so selfish and immature I expect more whenever I'm given something for free even though it's not required by a person or party to give me anything! My complaining makes me feel better about my minimum wage job and my intact virginity!" Use a Dinosaur Office voice to make it more accurate. I got the cards, because they were ing free and I didn't do jack shit except play good games to get them.

Yeah, that's what they get for buying Nintendo stuff.
Everyone knows Nintendo never offer anything good, their crappy copy and paste games is proof of that!!

JK ..please don't go all nintendo fanboy on me, even though it's true

I was hoping for something better like the statue.

The statue they gave us a couple of years ago was fantastic. The past two years (including this one) has been lame though.

Originally Posted by iNFiNiTE HORiZON really? At least Nintendo has a rewards program... do you support Microsoft and Sony or are you just the biggest hypocritical idiot ever?

I generally only buy Nintendo new because its such a pain to find used. Microsoft and Sony don't have those issues.

And it seems like when people do eventually get the "Thanks for giving us all your money, idiots" postcards, you tards will be ready to attack them for complaining about free stuff.

So... there's that.

I personally like the playing cards and will add them to my fallout and fable ones from past collector editions. Free is free. It's not like they have to offer the reward program so take what they give you and stop whining about your FREE stuff not being good enough. Oh and to everyone complaining about this not being a deal you knew it wasn't a deal from the thread title so stop posting just to complain if your time is so precious that you cant take 30 seconds to look at a post (then gripe about having to waste your time which is just wasting more time) get off the site and get back to work. THANKS OP

Originally Posted by FaintDeftone The statue they gave us a couple of years ago was fantastic. The past two years (including this one) has been lame though.

Agreed. Next years Platinum prize better be worthwhile. They've got to do something decent with the revamping of the coin redemption. Otherwise, this year will be my last supporting the system. I'll just sell off my registration pins.

...so are the platinum prizes a step down from the Nintendo pins of last year?

Originally Posted by Devulture ...so are the platinum prizes a step down from the Nintendo pins of last year?

Last year they had a pin set which was reasonably cool. I still have it. This year I'm only gold. I may have to get a 3DS or Wii code and sell it on eBay.

Originally Posted by Blaster man This year I'm only gold. I may have to get a 3DS or Wii code and sell it on eBay.

For reals? Just eBay the reward after everyone gets them. It'll probably be the same or cheaper considering the eBay + Paypal fees for selling a 3DS or Wii.

Originally Posted by zohar For reals? Just eBay the reward after everyone gets them. It'll probably be the same or cheaper considering the eBay + Paypal fees for selling a 3DS or Wii.

I'm stupid. I don't understand what you wrote. Did you just tell me to eBay a deck of cards instead of a download code?

I find it funny people get offended when others complain about free stuff. Sure it's free, but you had to spend a LOT of money to earn the prizes...and on top of that you had to spend your personal time (yes, not much but still) filling out surveys to even get the points. Plus, just because they are "free" prizes doesn't give them an excuse to make them terrible. It's not like "oh, you only gave me $10?" It's more like "oh...you gave me 1/3 of a ripped $10 bill...uh, thanks..."

That being said the prizes are pretty bad. Even if somebody did play cards a lot who in their right mind would trust their friends to not ruin these? I know I sure as hell wouldn't... That's why I always thought the idea of collectors edition cards to be pretty dumb in the first place.

What's worse is that NORMAL prizes on their website are just as good as these. They always offer tons of posters and they have both old school artwork cards as well as Animal Crossing playing cards.

Personally I was hoping for something unique that I could actually display but oh well...as some have said "free is free".

Originally Posted by JKSonic I find it funny people get offended when others complain about free stuff. Sure it's free, but you had to spend a LOT of money to earn the prizes...and on top of that you had to spend your personal time (yes, not much but still) filling out surveys to even get the points. Plus, just because they are "free" prizes doesn't give them an excuse to make them terrible. It's not like "oh, you only gave me $10?" It's more like "oh...you gave me 1/3 of a ripped $10 bill...uh, thanks..." That being said the prizes are pretty bad. Even if somebody did play cards a lot who in their right mind would trust their friends to not ruin these? I know I sure as hell wouldn't... That's why I always thought the idea of collectors edition cards to be pretty dumb in the first place. What's worse is that NORMAL prizes on their website are just as good as these. They always offer tons of posters and they have both old school artwork cards as well as Animal Crossing playing cards. Personally I was hoping for something unique that I could actually display but oh well...as some have said "free is free".

This.

While I am turned off by the prizes and not thrilled, I wouldn't be surprised if the poor prizes was due to how easy platinum was to get. As I posted during the 3DS price drop, it was possible to get a 160 3DS in time for the ambassador games. Those were worth 200 and 160 for the 3DS. Thats 360 before buying a single game... Needless to say this years platinum was probably much higher than others.

First year of Platinum since they started the US CN in 2008/9...the cards look sweet, don't really understand what everyone's whining about.

Random CN question: is the grabber-hand-thingamabob game download worth it? None of the other coin rewards really do anything for me.

Getting the cards... would have liked some of the cooler stuff Japan gets, but free rewards for games I would have bought anyways

I am guessing the Club Nintendo site is currently bugged? I only have two options for redemption, the cards (which show a picture of last years pins), and the calander. Not seeing the posters or downloadable games.