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Any recommendations where I can report free to play games?
That's a big claim, that every free to play game is maliciously preying on people. Here are some counterexamples: Unciv, Minetest, Shattered Pixel Dungeon. I honestly would have expected to find more love and less hate for free games on a community that is usually such a FLOSS advocate.
I'm not referring to free games, but "free-to-play" games that monetize the playerbase with loot-boxes, battlepasses, confuse-opoly and "micro"transactions. More like league of legends, Fortnite and Diablo immortal than FOSS games, like minetest.
These explicitly prey on people with low-impulse control
I think the term is freemium.
Nope, it's free-to-play
From the article you linked
Dude, the wikipedia-article is called Free-to-play. The preamble even says
I haven't seen any advertisements for those games, which i think op referred to.
Oh, from what they said, it seemed like they were referring to the games themselves, rather than adverts about those games. But if they did mean the ads, then I agree, all ads are bad because they try to manipulate you to spend money - not just any specific ad or group of ads.
You know exactly what kind of games it meant.
If you want to turn this into a pedantic argument, I'll just point out that the word "every" was your addition.