Why 1C like Steam

[TheGrunch]

Originally Posted by Kikuchiyo

How can it continue to download something when the user goes offline? and how on earth by any stretch of the imagination is that the apps fault?

If it didn't cause a problem, why would anyone have mentioned it? I'm quite aware of how internet connections work you know, but I've had it get stuck in an update cycle before where I'd lost connection and even if the connection was resumed it got upset got stuck in some kind of half-updated broken loop and I had to install Steam from scratch. Which makes me wonder whether it's installing on the fly as it downloads, which is just ludicrous.