Warloch_Ahead: Hey, I'd like to be able to play games when I'm away from the internet. Sometimes the internet goes out for no reason, maybe I'd like to take a laptop out into the wilderness and play, maybe there's no reliable internet and having offline backups is a reasonable thing to do. Maybe I want a straight cut game that's not bloated with what is effectively spyware. Maybe I want to back up my games in case the apocalypse happens and twenty years from now we can raise our children on these COM-PYOO-TER GAMES and say "This is what we had in the before times. While you kids are waiting for The Elder Scrolls VII, we had five of them, all ready to play, not needing to feed the biomass receptacle our flesh in order to play for six hours at a time."
Many of us currently want that, but alas we are very much in the minority.
I really feel we are in phase of the digital always online revolution, where we are still lucky enough to some degree to get games for permanent offline use. The way things are heading though, we are only going to get smaller as a group, and eventually lose any bargaining power. GOG if they want to survive, will eventually need to change their model, that's pretty much a given. GOG are really just a store, and the majority of customers and DEVs and PUBs really have most of the say.
In reality, what bothers me most about DRM, is not so much the online requirement, as the overhead from any DRM scheme, aka Denuvo for instance. Just another layer that impacts your gaming experience in various ways.
Maybe future customers of GOG, will stream from GOG. In a sense with Galaxy, they kind of do that now when not downloading and installing the Offline Installer version of a game. Perhaps in the future, folk won't even install a game to their PC or device, just see the end result on them, playing via a server somewhere. You sort of do that now with multliplayer games, to a lesser or greater degree depending on the game, and of course you do it completely with browser games.
Ever faster web connection and more powerful PCs and devices, will likely continue to dictate what the future looks like.
Going forward, the best we can hope for, future wise, is that we can still install on our PC or device, for offline use. That means knowing what you want before hand and installing it. So long as their is no obligatory online check before playing, then that is a tolerable situation most of the time, so long as you are well organized and there's not some hiccup with your machine.