Bro just trust him!!

...And Galaxy could and should have been that. Instead, they fucked it up and went with the proprietary client-locked model that doesn't have built-in direct connect fallback.

I'm not super techy but I've been told GOG is basically already emulating a client on some level to trick games like Deus Ex Mankind Divided into working without one. So yeah if they patch it someday it would probably be something like that. I would very much guess they'll just let the story mode be preserved and the rest die though. Maybe the community can fix it like you suggest, like they do most things.

It's so sad that we couldn't have a fully DRM-free game.

I wasn't able to find any suitable wording for "DRM-free" games on User's Agreement:
https://support.gog.com/hc/en-us/articles/212632089-GOG-User-Agreement?product=gog

So this DRM-free promise on a website, does it mean that there is no clear obligation on GOG's side to provide such games?

A lot of things are relative (some would argue that everything is, but I wouldn't go that far, but certainly a lot).

From what I read, its true that the Hitman game has a drm-free core that you can play offline.

Would the game be enjoyable even without the DRMed content? Probably (its an AAA game, I'm guessing its chokeful of content).

So yeah, if you are somehow unaware that the bulk of the game is locked away (because you haven't followed the development of that game or played that game before so you don't know what to expect), you can probably be blissfully ignorant about it and happy with the 50% of the game that is left.

Heck, if people had no mentioned it, I might have been blissfully ignorant about it, bought the game and played it, none the wiser (would have seen that some content is online-only in the game, but without knowing the substance of that content, I might have brushed it off as fluff content).

However, now that I know, I can't stand it and I will not support it with my money. Ideologically, it just rubs me the wrong way.

I'm very grateful that we have a lot of watchdogs in the community noticing these things and pointing them out.

He said that when he launched the game, he was asked whether he wanted to connect to IOI's servers and he said no.

As for enjoying it, he just began playing today, I believe, so his experience is limited. All he was saying was that he thought the game was DRM-free as he could refuse to connect and still play the game in a way that he considered enjoyable.

I can tell you that when I played Dragon's Dogma, I didn't know that the whole companion scheme was meant to be online.

It's false advertisement. And depending on the user's local laws, it could be considered illegal.

to be fair to jim:

that sort of thing is a journey.

maybe you know who and where you're at, and that's fine. but for folks in that situation, it's not always easy disentangling who they are from what they've seen and internalized.

i still maintain that - given thequartering's stances on various issues, he's WAY more problematic than jim is.

[and clickbaity and generally awful for information, etc.]

So how many angry gamers does it take to enact change here? Or are you guys just full of shit when justifying your terrible decisions?

I already wrote email to GOG and will not be buying the game. Also, voice my opinion on forums. I don't think boycotting GOG altogether is the right thing to do. But they need to step it up.

The problem is he keeps hiding behind his sexuality to deflect valid criticism that never mentioned his sexuality nor used insults or slurs and was calm addressing valid criticism and its mighty suspect he came out as nonestrait when he was coitized for not doing research proper and hating on some someone on repeat for no reason and in unrelated stuff .. And he said that was trolls and people hating his for his sexaulity when all he shown was actual valid none hateful criticsim of his work he screen capped and he repeated that often .. so hes more a problem then the Guartering as Jim hides behind his sexaulity to try invaliding any critics .. where as the Quartering their was full proof shown he was unwarranted attacked by a person physically even had take legal action over it .. So yeah Jim giving a bad image to those who aren't strait he even is furthering bigoted sterotypes by doing that from painting valid criticism thats not hateful as hateful people ..He also isn't taken that serious anymore too

I belive it works on a "talk to me once you have the spending power of China and not before" basis.

If you're Chinese, about 5, apparently ...

Seems there's a patch "found in the backup intaller page" that adds all unlockables in offline mode.
https://www.gog.com/forum/hitman_game_of_the_year_edition/how_to_remove_online_drm/post7
A review (by a verified owner) also mentions that patch.