Posted January 07, 2011
Anybody want to help a Finn out? See I've got all these Nintendo published Wii games with their product codes registrable on Club Nintendo. Codes that are exchanged into Stars upon completing a short customer survey. Stars I can't use because Finland isn't one of the European Club Nintendo countries.
I'd heard contradicting stuff about being able to register a Club Nintendo account in Finland so I finally had to bite the bullet and sacrifice one of the codes (New Play Control: Pikmin 2 @ 250 Stars) to find out. Everything seemed to go swimmingly until it was time to link the console to the Nintendo Club account through the Wii Shopping Channel. I'm guessing based on my location, the button to do just that was missing, made obvious by the fact it's visible in the related online help screenshot.
So I guess I could register all my games on Club Nintendo, receive Stars and MAYBE use them to get some physical goodies exclusive to club members. I don't know, I haven't looked into it because frankly I'm not that interested. What I wanted to do was to exchange the Stars into some Wii Points to use as currency on the Wii Shopping Channel and apparently I can't do that.
I'm thinking maybe somebody wants my product codes, somebody wants those Stars. Somebody who could turn the Stars into the more usable Wii Points or do whatever it is they do with Stars. Maybe somebody who holds Stars in some kind of value might be so delighted to receive some *for free*, that in exchange they might consider sending Wii Shopping Channel Gifts of appropriate value off my list back my way.
Or something. I don't know. I don't have a definite deal to propose here. I just want to get in touch and in talks with somebody honest to make use of the apparent value in these product codes. At best we'll both get something nice out of it and naturally you'll become my go-to guy/gal whenever I acquire another Nintendo product. :)
If you are eligible this seems easy and fair enough, please do get in touch.
If you are eligible and willing but all of this makes even less sense to you than it does to me, well, I guess we can plow through it but I'd rather get this out of the way as painlessly as possible. The Club Nintendo card off of Pikmin 2 says "Eligibility for membership exclusive to residents of UK & Ireland, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Belgium, the Netherlands, Portugal and South Africa" which I gather is important for being able to register my PAL-Euro games and to fully utilize the Stars you get out of it. Sending Shopping Channel Gifts is also restricted to within region.
You can either reply here or contact me directly on
the #gog IRC channel on QuakeNet,
by emailing (my username) (at) kapsi.fi or
through the GogPM service, which I think I'll now have to start checking all OCDish.
Also, Wii Friend Code: 1435 6725 5764 8772, w00t!
I may already have put more effort into this essay of a post than the monetary value of our little future endeavor is worth but what the heck, let's just have fun with it. Anybody up for some fun?
TL;DR: I want you to have my Club Nintendo Stars, and to get a little something something in return.
I'd heard contradicting stuff about being able to register a Club Nintendo account in Finland so I finally had to bite the bullet and sacrifice one of the codes (New Play Control: Pikmin 2 @ 250 Stars) to find out. Everything seemed to go swimmingly until it was time to link the console to the Nintendo Club account through the Wii Shopping Channel. I'm guessing based on my location, the button to do just that was missing, made obvious by the fact it's visible in the related online help screenshot.
So I guess I could register all my games on Club Nintendo, receive Stars and MAYBE use them to get some physical goodies exclusive to club members. I don't know, I haven't looked into it because frankly I'm not that interested. What I wanted to do was to exchange the Stars into some Wii Points to use as currency on the Wii Shopping Channel and apparently I can't do that.
I'm thinking maybe somebody wants my product codes, somebody wants those Stars. Somebody who could turn the Stars into the more usable Wii Points or do whatever it is they do with Stars. Maybe somebody who holds Stars in some kind of value might be so delighted to receive some *for free*, that in exchange they might consider sending Wii Shopping Channel Gifts of appropriate value off my list back my way.
Or something. I don't know. I don't have a definite deal to propose here. I just want to get in touch and in talks with somebody honest to make use of the apparent value in these product codes. At best we'll both get something nice out of it and naturally you'll become my go-to guy/gal whenever I acquire another Nintendo product. :)
If you are eligible this seems easy and fair enough, please do get in touch.
If you are eligible and willing but all of this makes even less sense to you than it does to me, well, I guess we can plow through it but I'd rather get this out of the way as painlessly as possible. The Club Nintendo card off of Pikmin 2 says "Eligibility for membership exclusive to residents of UK & Ireland, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Belgium, the Netherlands, Portugal and South Africa" which I gather is important for being able to register my PAL-Euro games and to fully utilize the Stars you get out of it. Sending Shopping Channel Gifts is also restricted to within region.
You can either reply here or contact me directly on
the #gog IRC channel on QuakeNet,
by emailing (my username) (at) kapsi.fi or
through the GogPM service, which I think I'll now have to start checking all OCDish.
Also, Wii Friend Code: 1435 6725 5764 8772, w00t!
I may already have put more effort into this essay of a post than the monetary value of our little future endeavor is worth but what the heck, let's just have fun with it. Anybody up for some fun?
TL;DR: I want you to have my Club Nintendo Stars, and to get a little something something in return.
Post edited January 07, 2011 by raina
This question / problem has been solved by Zchinque
