Mister Sterling? You absolutely hit the nail on the head.
Funny he should cozy up to steam in that.
A true story (incoming wall 'o text):
Since I was at dorm at university, I didn't really have the time to update steam on this computer (my desktop at home), so when I go to have it updated, it has about 96 MB (or more) worth of it. No problem, I attempt to download it...and it says I was haven't network issues in that steam must be online...
Odd, my connection was good at the time...no worries, I try again, thinking it will resume.
I mean, hell, even Blizzard has enough brain-cells to know that not everyone has a 100 GB/s connection especially here in the states, right? I restart steam and it starts the updating from the beginning with the same end result of no luck* "Well, this is lame." I thought to myself. "This means I can't play the two games--Terraria and Skyrim--that I legally purchased because you need to be online to play them." No connection, no game.
Needless to say, I felt scammed. I was considering pirating them--I couldn't play my own legally purchased games ffs!--when I had a whiz kid moment. Before I had to leave the dorm for good (lease ran out not too long ago), I updated steam best I could on my laptop--my university has a smoking fast internet connection. I've clocked it at between 50 to 100+ times faster than my home connection of 40 KB/s to 86 KB/s. With that done, I then grab the steam files from the programs folder of my laptop and put/replace/merge them with the ones on my desktop. I crossed my fingers as I did the transfer (using an external HDD, natch. It was over 10 GB of files, much too big for a tiny 4 GB thumbdrive.) After the transfer, I try and start steam and after being told to update it (like before), I cringe, but it actually finished this time and I could play my games! Sheesh.
So yeah, "it's not yet perfect"--biggest understatement of the fucking decade, Sterling. Had I not had access to my university's connection, I would no longer be able to play my own fucking games!
*As Shane said: "Not resumable? Inexcusable in this day and age! And they wonder why people resort to piracy."