Not wanting to be offensive, but, as someone that lives in a "third world" country (if someone actually cares about this, for this kind of debate), I might say that your behaviour with a / agaisn't a "first world" fellow, wont help the world to be a better place either.

Since things in my country, or yours, or his, wont change, probably, in the next 5~10 years or so (because that's the minimum time for a significant economical change to take place depending on your country policies, both politically and in industry), what we should do is work for our own country and study to understand our own country flaws.

OP never said in his original post that everybody had internet in a nonsensical 'first-world' view. He just asked people that does have access to internet, if they prefer a game to be fully online or offline. If people have wide connectivity, why would they prefer to be offline or play offline? That was his question in my humble interpretation. Well.. I might be wrong though.
Calm down mate, chill.

The whole point of buying at GOG is, or at least was, the DRM-free offline installers. If you're someone that has to be always-on plugged into the grid without end, there are plenty of stores that you can (essentially) rent games from that will suit your needs. GOG is the only DRM-free store that has big releases. Unfortunately it seems GOG does not realize this unique selling point since all resources seem to be poured into making "the client to end all clients".

Also, the issue really is between DRM-free and DRMed, not offline versus online. It is convenient and generally true to say something offline is DRM-free, online is not; however, this is not necessarily accurate. DRM-free multiplayer is possible online; it is just that these companies refuse to give players the option in approximately 99.999999999% of cases. Customers should demand DRM-free forms of multiplayer, both on and off line. Same with in-game achievements.

Yes, I care. If GOG closes doors, my collection survives. Which can't be said about games on other platforms.

That question should be elaborated more, like: does the game work at all, unless you are online? So is "being online" a requirement for the game to work at all, or just maybe a nice to have option that brings some extra options like tracking of playtime, cloud saves and client-based achievements?

Currently GOG games are the latter, except for online multiplayer and those other features above. And I am fine with that since missing those extra features does not affect me in the least, as long as I can also play the game without them.

Also is the question about requiring the Galaxy client to run the game at all, even if in offline mode? I prefer not to have a client between the game and me because:

- It is an unnecessary extra step to launch the game, ie. the client gets launched for a single-player game that shouldn't even need it.

- There are so many gaming clients around now that it is just irritating having to install many of them, just to play different games. Some games even requiring multiple clients and accounts (on Steam and Epic at least).

- The client itself may cause extra restrictions on where I can play the game. For instance, if the Galaxy (or Steam) client now decided that it will not run on Winodws 7 anymore but only on Windows 10, then I would not be able to play any of my games on Windows 7, even if the games themselves would run just fine there. Plus, some of those games might even have some issues running on Windows 10, which is why I'd rather play them on Windows 7 or earlier, which the client prevents. It just complicates certain things.

It is a similar question like asking: "Why wouldn't you wear sunglasses while playing your games?".

Well, why should I? While I guess I could wear my sunglasses every time I want to play any of my GOG or Steam games, I see no good reason why I should. It just seems totally unnecessary and silly.

guys thx for sharing it

Online has ruined the world. If your country doesn’t have connectivity be thankful, be very thankful.

100% agree.

So why are you online then?
(don't get me wrong, I appreciate your presence on this forum)

I rarely am nowadays. I pop past here once in a while to see if there are updates. And I have to use some online for work. Other than that I stay away. Social media, entities hacking, data capture, online profiling, proprietary control, none of it is good. And it’s getting worse rapidly.

I don't buy/play games on Steam/Origin/Epic, so I don't have problem with online things.

Also, the game I play the single-player/campaign part only. If one day GOG dies, well, than I will play the old games I have and continue playing opensource games, that I already do.

I also have some DRM free games on Zoom platform and on Humble Store Library.

Also, I admit, that I am playing less and less. But no problem with this. A persons interest shifts as time goes bye.

Well, if you are particular angry about the current state of affairs be my guest but don't start raging like a bull because you feel that i'm trespassing some fictional border. i would suggest canalizing all that energy into a certain form where it actually will make some effect, donate to green peace, volunteer with Unicef etc etc etc

There's nothing wrong with that!
However, to ME, it sounds a bit like throwing the baby out with the bathwater. Like e.g. hardly playing any games because of microtransactions and such (while there are many many good games left to play without such shenanigans).
I enjoy / make use of the positive aspects of the internet while (trying to) avoid(ing) all the rest.
But as I said at the start of this post, whatever makes you happy / works for you is a good thing.