OpenSourceGames

Well, uh
There's at least a dozen, not all have a GUI, very few of them have payment mechanisms. There's so much variety that I cannot with confidence place which one you're referring to. Maybe Gnome Software? Dpkg can technically do it but it's on the maintainer to build in the mechanism to phone home to a third-party server and allow/deny functionality based on payment status.
Rereading your post, I think you might have meant that paid and proprietary deployment methods are needed, but proprietary packages are very much already a thing, and the reason that Ubuntu gained so much headway over Debian, in that they assume you do in fact want your wireless card to work. They're also the ones with the esm payment mechanisms, where they can turn off repository channels if you cancel your plan.