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What anti-consumer is exactly about Steam? Comparatively to pretty much any other online game store, Steam is a super-pro-consumer-the-only-good-choice store.
They have the most generous refund policy of any store and don't force any DRM on published games. The horror!!
I think it's satire
Spent a decade saying refunds weren't possible until the EU told them to wise up. And even then it's the bare minimum.
Selling broken and abandoned games.
Entering deals with publishers to force physical copies of the game to use Steam. Making the disc worthless.