Grilling is now GAMIFIED?!?

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We asked for more reliable notifications, we complained when we lost remote start. The brain trust at Recteq came out with a new app version today with "recteqXP" to rank your number of cooks and award meaningless badges. I doubt that there are many 12 year olds buying Recteq grills, but apparently their marketing department thinks overwise.

We don't need no stinkin' badges...

This makes "Ray's Club" seem like a stroke of genius.

Love my grill, but this is just dumb.
 
We asked for more reliable notifications, we complained when we lost remote start. The brain trust at Recteq came out with a new app version today with "recteqXP" to rank your number of cooks and award meaningless badges. I doubt that there are many 12 year olds buying Recteq grills, but apparently their marketing department thinks overwise.

We don't need no stinkin' badges...

This makes "Ray's Club" seem like a stroke of genius.

Love my grill, but this is just dumb.
Right on. I just saw that as well along with all the goofy emails.

Edit: Sometimes I need to kick my own @ss. I opened the app just to get the update notification to go away. I got the game in junk popup and now I see this


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Edit 2: Guess I am not a fan boy?
 
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Right on. I just saw that as well along with all the goofy emails.

Edit: Sometimes I need to kick my own @ss. I opened the app just to get the update notification to go away. I got the game in junk popup and now I see this


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Edit 2: Guess I am not a fan boy?
Of course you can be a fan boy, as soon as you earn your badges 🤣
 
I agree! And, I just got the e-mail after a fantastic customer service experience with another grill manufacturer that actually cares about its customers. The company shall remain unnamed (since this is a RT-related forum) but many of you know what my primary pellet grill is now.

It is amazing that RT thinks cutesy outranks substance.
 
I got my first RecTeq four years ago, but I thought it was always "gamified." No??

Pretty much every weekend I would throw in a decent cut of meat, insert the probes, set my target temps, then sit back and try to guess how long after my meal was ready before the app notifications came through. Then we'd play a quick round of "find the edible section" at dinner. Good times!

Turns out my wife didn't really care for that game, so I bought a Thermoworks Signals...
 
We asked for more reliable notifications, we complained when we lost remote start. The brain trust at Recteq came out with a new app version today with "recteqXP" to rank your number of cooks and award meaningless badges. I doubt that there are many 12 year olds buying Recteq grills, but apparently their marketing department thinks overwise.

We don't need no stinkin' badges...

This makes "Ray's Club" seem like a stroke of genius.

Love my grill, but this is just dumb.
I was waiting for someone to make a thread about this absolutely dumb decision by RT 🤣
 
My dinosaur opinion is that my pellet grill smoking/cooking only matters to me, my family, & my friends. Only until I entered this forum did I ever do the narcissistic activity of taking pictures of my food. BTW this is only because y’all are my brothers and sisters from other mothers and misters😎
 
My dinosaur opinion is that my pellet grill smoking/cooking only matters to me, my family, & my friends. Only until I entered this forum did I ever do the narcissistic activity of taking pictures of my food. BTW this is only because y’all are my brothers and sisters from other mothers and misters😎
I like your style! (y)
 
I’ve never been accused of having style 🫣. My Missus won’t allow me out of the house without fashion police inspection. I wear convertible hiking pants, offensive T-shirts, & “clown shoe “ Altra Olympus/Lone Peaks🫣. And that’s only after I sneak out 😎
 
My dinosaur opinion is that my pellet grill smoking/cooking only matters to me, my family, & my friends. Only until I entered this forum did I ever do the narcissistic activity of taking pictures of my food. BTW this is only because y’all are my brothers and sisters from other mothers and misters😎
I must admit I suck at pics as well. Just not what I have done all these years before this forum. Most cooks I am too busy because my balance makes me so slow these days. Keep on smokin’ and cookin’.
 
I must admit I suck at pics as well. Just not what I have done all these years before this forum. Most cooks I am too busy because my balance makes me so slow these days. Keep on smokin’ and cookin’.
Nice to know that I'm not the only one that loses my balance after smoking.
 
We asked for more reliable notifications, we complained when we lost remote start. The brain trust at Recteq came out with a new app version today with "recteqXP" to rank your number of cooks and award meaningless badges. I doubt that there are many 12 year olds buying Recteq grills, but apparently their marketing department thinks overwise.

We don't need no stinkin' badges...

This makes "Ray's Club" seem like a stroke of genius.

Love my grill, but this is just dumb.
ya unfortunately, ray and the others have lost their integrity. it will not be long when the quality of the grills start to suffer, we seen that with the rt340 remake.
 

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