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New Nintendo Europe website soon: does it mean Wii-Points-for-Stars at last?

BeedleBeedle Registered User regular
edited November 2007 in Games and Technology
So, several months ago NoE sent e-mails to people who are collecting the 'stars' they dish out as loyalty points with their games and systems, to ask them to sign up to new Ts&Cs that meant the stars would expire in a year, but that you would 'soon' be able to exchange them for Wii Points, a currency that actually has some non-zero monetary value. Cue much specuation about plausible stars/points exchange rates.

Since then though, we've heard nothing. They must be going to give us our Wii points within a year, or our stars will expire and they've essentially lied to us.

Now though, the NoE website is down for a big redesign. Does this mean Wii Points for loyalty stars are coming? Cue more speculation! What exchange rates are plausible?! What VC games are worth getting free if we don't have to pay for them? Will Europe finally get something nice from Nintendo?

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  • BlueBlueBlueBlue Registered User regular
    edited November 2007
    My vote goes to changing the website's color scheme.

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  • RhakaRhaka Registered User regular
    edited November 2007
    Beedle wrote: »
    Will Europe finally get something nice from Nintendo?

    We *did* get Tingle's game...

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  • Drunk_caterpillarDrunk_caterpillar Registered User regular
    edited November 2007
    Man, why the fuck do NA audiences get shafted for shit like this? I mean, I know Europe gets hosed pretty frequently with releases, but NA has never had cool prizes for registering stuff, 'cept that Zelda Anniversary disc.

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  • BlueBlueBlueBlue Registered User regular
    edited November 2007
    Man, why the fuck do NA audiences get shafted for shit like this? I mean, I know Europe gets hosed pretty frequently with releases, but NA has never had cool prizes for registering stuff, 'cept that Zelda Anniversary disc.

    I think Kaplan said in an interview that it was because of shipping costs.

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  • BeedleBeedle Registered User regular
    edited November 2007
    Man, why the fuck do NA audiences get shafted for shit like this? I mean, I know Europe gets hosed pretty frequently with releases, but NA has never had cool prizes for registering stuff, 'cept that Zelda Anniversary disc.

    To be fair, cool prizes for registering things in Europe exist strictly in potentia at this point. We've had the odd actual tangible item on offer in exchange for the stars, but they've been in such low numbers they've effectively been prize draws.

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  • CouscousCouscous Registered User regular
    edited November 2007
    Why can't we get cool shit like exclusive games that the Japanese get?

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  • Alfred J. KwakAlfred J. Kwak is it because you were insulted when I insulted your hair?Registered User regular
    edited November 2007
    Does this mean that the huge piles of Starpoint cards that I'm stocking in my room will actually be worth something?

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  • JorilJoril BelgiumRegistered User regular
    edited November 2007
    My bets are on Wii points for stars. It's been announced ever since the Wii launch.

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