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If you encounter them, I'd recommend reporting them — not only are they against YouTube's ToS, they are also maliciously preying upon people.
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they are also maliciously preying upon people.
Any recommendations where I can report free to play games?
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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.
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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.
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I think the term is freemium.
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Nope, it's free-to-play
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From the article you linked
There are several kinds of free-to-play business models. The most common is based on the freemium software model, in which users are granted access to a fully functional game but are incentivised to pay microtransactions to access additional content or more powerful in-game assets.
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Dude, the wikipedia-article is called Free-to-play. The preamble even says
This article is about the business model for video games. For business models other than for games, see Freemium
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I haven't seen any advertisements for those games, which i think op referred to.
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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.
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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.
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