Or almost any modern software period. Everyone is in love with data gather and analytics.
As long as it is only done with the user's consent, and the analytics can be turned off by the user, I don't see a problem. But if it's forced and/or done without consent, then it's a problem no matter if you're Apple, Microsoft, Steam, Epic, or any other company.
Heh
Can be turned off by the user usually means you must run your own recursive DNS resolver and firewall
You mean the ones you launch from Steam?
Now consider how much phoning home Steam is doing…
Steam does its own thing but many games also collect their own analytics as you play.