PSA: Receive 1,000 Gold Points With This Switch Online Family Membership Offer (North America)

What are gold points even used on? Jpegs?

@Tayrailbridge You can use them on games in the the Eshop. 1 gold point is 1 cent. So you can save $10 with 1000 gold points in the Eshop.

Dang, had to renew a month too early.

......has no friends or family to do this with, or money

@IceEarthGuard I remember when Club Nintendo was a thing, and with the points, you could get pretty cool stuff you couldn’t get anywhere else. And then Nintendo buried all of that with… discount on games 🙃

@Savage_Joe in europe or japan at least in the us we got shoelaces

Oh wow.. ten measly dollars after spending to close to forty dollars for a family plan? Pfft- scratch that and reverse it, Nintendo.

Corporate greed is something else, y’all.

@Tayrailbridge you’re thinking of crypto scams on Twitter and blue checks…

So my membership renewed this morning, I'm gonna make a call tomorrow bout this, most standard retailers would honor it. Hopefully that's something that'll happen here!

Probably renew mine early in that case. It runs out in October but being covered for an extra year at $10 off is a pretty good deal.

@IceEarthGuard "These Gold Points can be exchanged for games on the eShop and other Nintendo Switch content." read the damn article, buddy lol. Thanks for explaining

@obijuankanoobie the offer requires opt-in

@VHSGREMLIN the usual amount of Gold Points back is 5% of what you spend. $10 back in Gold Points from spending £35 is almost 30% back

@Savage_Joe this is still a thing, they're platinum points. You can use them on the mynintendo store for exclusive stuff. At least in Australia

Almost a month after I renewed my expiring Expansion Pack... but it wasn't a family sub, so I suppose I wouldn't be in the market anyway.

@VHSGREMLIN that's basically 25% cashback in eShop where ten bucks can net you varied kinds/assortments of quality stuff anytime. And corporate greed is one topic to pontificate about in an environment of equally proverbial consumer greed.

@conditionals Yep, it’s the same here in the UK. I recently traded something like 500 platinum points for a Tears of the Kingdom keychain. It’s super high quality, too!

@Lizuka
Mine renews automatically on September; how do you renew it early?
EDIT: You can "stack" your current subscription with the new one if you opt-in for the promotion on the Nintendo website.

@Liam_Doolan
The offer is valid in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Argentina and Peru, not just North America.

For anyone whose subscription doesn't expire for a long time yet, you can still use this promo. You'll just get credited for whatever time you have left when purchasing the next year. In other words, you'll start your year over from today but with the price reduced to reflect the time you already paid for.
Hope that's helpful to someone 🙂

I have no reason to get a family sub, but pro tip: You can still get gold coins from physical purchases, just not as much as digital ones.
1. Put the game card in.
2. Press + on it.
3. Go to my rewards program or whatever it's called, then collect gold points.
4. Profit.
Fair warning, these are time limited.

@Savage_Joe well, I got some cool posters and keychains, and a few other exclusive items with platinum points…

This offer isn’t very inclusive. What about all the solo gamers out there? Do they not matter to Nintendo now? 🤨

@LastFootnote Same here. I had to renew maybe a month and a half ago. Talk about crappy timing. 😔

Egg on my face! I didn't read carefully, renew or start "Family Expansion Plan".

@sketchturner That's if you're upgrading to a different membership type. If you're renewing your current membership at the same tier, then it's just the base membership cost to add on to your current membership time.

Confused how there’s an entire article about getting 1,000 gold points in North America for subscribing to either the Family Plan or the Family Plan + Expansion Pass without ever mentioning how much either of those things cost.🤷🏻‍♂️

We have 2 Switch and 3 gamers in our house but no one has really been using either of them and I’m not sure we need to pay for online. And I can’t recall how much the Expansion Pass added to the cost but I feel like it actually cost more than the cost of the base plan, which doesn’t sound right. I’ll talk to the kids later.

Actually not even sure what to spend the good points on. How long before they expire again? 6 months! 12 months? 🤷🏻‍♂️

Edit: OMG Nintendo is so freaking annoying about this stuff no wonder the article is so short on useful information, Nintendo really doesn’t want to tell you. I had to sign in to find out anything, then I had to get thru 3 of those stupid photo captures, with bicycles, motorcycles then a car, and THEN they sent me an email to VERIFY. Screw this, I’m going to play on my PS5. 😝

@FoxyDude Not for me. I went in to renew my current family plan and it gives me the option for $19 (instead of $35).

@Savage_Joe You can still get things like that, with platinum points. You get platinum points from just doing random stuff (logging onto the website, playing games, etc), and can use them to buy random stuff. You get gold points from buying games and use them to buy games.

Also, I’d argue most casual people would prefer to use it on discounted games

@Savage_Joe Club Nintendo was awesome! That Mario & Crew statue was sweet and I have the posters framed on a wall still. All that being said, comparing this to that is sorta backwards. You'd really need to compare the platinum coin rewards as those are the direct correlation to the old Club Nintendo (and definitely nowhere near as good, but there are some neat ones here and there).

And I know I'm in the minority on this website but I love being able to play the old games via the service, getting the random monthly(ish) updates of games, and playing them online with friends!

Well what if I had it renew a month ago? Nothing?