Wendy’s has gone full Wendy’s, releasing a 15-hour RPG based on the fast-food chain’s branding.

Wendy’s has gone full Wendy’s, releasing a 15-hour RPG based on the fast-food chain’s branding.

From the article,

WendyQuest was developed in collaboration with 81monkeys, a Canadian-based company, based on the 2D style of turn-based JRPG classics like Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy. As more and more games launch with full AI use disclosures, the WendyQuest Steam listing proudly proclaims the game as “100% fresh and 100% human made.”

  • Kojichan@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    3 hours ago

    Sounds like the normal Canadian couponing system to me, just with extra steps.

    FREE *

    • (with purchase, cannot be combined with any other offers, one coupon per client only, expires 5 days ago, cannot be transfered, purchase must be at least $10 before taxes).
  • TheTechnician27@lemmy.worldEnglish
    75·
    1 day ago

    The rewards aren’t entirely free — to actually redeem them, you’ll have to make a “separate qualifying purchase.”

    Okay, so they’re coupons. You advertise to yourself for hours on end to get a few measley, regular-ass coupons.

    • iamthetot@piefed.caOPEnglish
      253·
      1 day ago

      I mean, devil’s advocate, they could have released it for people to advertise to themselves, and give them nothing at all.

      There’s a lot of negativity around advertising, and I completely understand why. I use a PiHole, adblockers, etc, I get it.

      But this seems so harmless to me. It’s a free game that, by all accounts, looks pretty good actually, and at the end of it you can get some coupons.

      Personally, I’m not buying American when possible, so Wendy’s is not an option for me anyway. I might still check this out for the funsies.

    • HeyJoe@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12·
      1 day ago

      FREE Medium Fry w/ purchase
 FREE Small Classic Frosty w/ purchase
 FREE 10 PC Nuggs w/ purchase
 FREE Biscuit or Croissant w/ purchase
 FREE Dave’s Single w/ purchase

      Yeah considering the app deals already have most of these same deals all the time they aren’t very impressive. I guess it would depend on what purchase means. If it’s $1 min then I guess it could be ok. Right now they normally have a free fry, wednesdays is free 6 piece, and a big one thats been around is buy a dave single or 10 piece get one free which is prob the best deal atm.

    • mushroommunk@lemmy.todayEnglish
      10·
      1 day ago

      I’m not gonna play but I’m real curious if it’s any good. I remember the Chex quest game and the taco bell’s Tasty Temple Challenge from back in the day that had like some actual fun to them

  • Macallan@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13·
    1 day ago

    My guess is it will go something like this:

    In order to redeem your coupon for a free Frosty with purchase of regular meal please enter your information below.

    Full Name Email
    Phone number
    Date of Birth
    Address
    SSN
    Mother’s maiden name
    Credit Card Number for age verification

    ✅ Sign up to receive marketing emails REQUIRED

  • marighost@piefed.socialEnglish
    13·
    1 day ago

    So they can spend however much money to develop this but can’t staff their stores, and need an AI bot to manage their drive thru. Sure, Wendy’s, whatever.

  • Oxysis/Oxy@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    12·
    1 day ago

    Honestly I prefer this style of advertising over all others. A lot of real effort has to go into making these games (assuming no ai was used).

  • Hegar@fedia.io
    8·
    1 day ago

    Things like this start out as a joke, but many cartoons are already just marketing for toys, and video games are getting stuffed with more and more product placement. I fear that the success of things like this and the ikea skyrim mod are the first steps into a disgusting era of nothing but branded media.

    • Hegar@fedia.io
      2·
      1 day ago

      Yeah as someone who grew up outside the US, I can’t eat it. Maybe if I grew up eating it I could stomach it. The poor quality of fast food was one of the really noticable things about moving to the US.

      McDonalds in the US is foul compared to McD in either australia or taiwan. Wendy’s and BK are basically inedible. In australia, burger king is called hungry jacks and was actually pretty good. I never tried it, but literally every single american in china ranted at me about how good chinese kfc is. Don’t even get me started about 7/11 food in asia, which is often legit good.

      I mean it’s still fast food, but the 3-5/10 of the rest of the word is very noticably better than the 1-2/10 of US fast food.

  • Necrifyre@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    11·
    24 hours ago

    Reminded me of that pinball thing BK did a few months ago. It was difficult to play but you still were offered the same shit that you are offered whenever they sent you those sheets of coupons in the mail.