I'm with the rest of you. I purchased all the Stalker games and you won't find a bigger fan of open-world games...but I draw the line at persistent online connections for a single-player experience.
Additionally, I've already been to the
official GSC forums where they have a poll set up about this: a whopping 79% voted "no purchase" as a result of this news.
And believe me, the people who frequent that board are real Stalker fans. They'd have to be to put up with that forum's terrible 1999 code and design.