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What it is, is extortion and SHOULD be illegal. They couldn't sell you couches that you weren't able to sit on without an internet connection, why can they do that with a game? The industry DESPERATELY wants to be treated like physical goods (because piracy steals their money XD ) and yet resort to crap like this.
I'll agree with stuffie though, it's silly how many stealth games waste resources on tools (read: loud guns) that are downright detrimental to the completion of the task. Though some do feature sequences where you won't be penalized for openly killing large amounts of non-targets, it's all too rare.