I love TF2. Its so fun to play and all the characters are balanced so well.

Heavy and Medic are also my two favourite classes, so this is good news.

I find it (SecuRom, etc) OK. I haven't had any problems with it myself. I can see why people would be frustrated though, if they happen to use all their installs for example and need to phone a tech support number to reset the install count. Whereas people who have a pirated version do not have any troubles at all.

They should definately remove the protection in the first year. What happens if I want to play my game in 5 years time and the authentication servers are no longer online?

There will always be a way to get around copy protection (both PC and consoles, so I dont see why its there in the first place. If people want to pirate the game they will find a way to do that. I mean look at Sins of a Solar Empire, that has no copy protection and is doing well.

The only way to stop piracy is to make buying the game easier than copying it. STEAM is an excellent example of this.

So for some reason I see alot of people bashing WoW, for no apparent reason or justification, other than jumping on the 'WoW is crap bandwagon'.

Its a good game and one of the best MMOs on the market. Over 10 million people pay to play this game and i'm sure they do not think it is a bad game.

Yet there are people on the Diablo 3 boards making comments like.

"I Don't want ANYTHING in D3 to be like WoW. And furthermore, I seriously hope that while playing Diablo 3, I never come face to face with someone who's played Wow, or talks about Wow."

Whats all that about?