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• Hegar@fedia.io ⁨40⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ 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.

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  • Sprinks@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    but this isnt really anything new. If anything it would be a revival of the branded flash games era.

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• TheTechnician27@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 coupons.

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  • iamthetot@piefed.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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  • HeyJoe@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ 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.

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  • mushroommunk@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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

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    • officermike@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Don’t know how good it could possibly be, but I know it won’t replace Sneak King in this guy’s heart.

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    • iamthetot@piefed.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The reviews are pretty good, and it looks pretty neat, not gonna lie.

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    • KoboldCoterie@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      Don’t forget Cool Spot, an actual full-price retail game from the Genesis / SNES era that was basically a live advertisement for 7-Up.

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• oxysis@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ 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).

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• tacosanonymous@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  No thanks, brand.

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• TrackenDaKracken@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Doubt.

  Wendy’s doesn’t make real food.

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  • Hegar@fedia.io ⁨23⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ 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.

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  • etchinghillside@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Never frozen asset packs.

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