Blizzard/Activision is a commercial success for a reason. I've been with Blizzard since Warcraft II and they've always put gamers first. The games they've designed haven't been perfect but they've redefined the playing field for RTS, RPG and MMORPGs in the space of fifteen years. Their ideas are great and the polish is even better. You can complain all you want about DRM but that's the direction ALL games are going and Blizzard/Activision has the money to do it right, i.e. not make it cumbersome and keep the majority of the hackers out. The biggest gamble for D3 is the real money trading forum or whatever it's called. That could easily trivialize the heart of their RPG system, which is the drive for great in-game items. If MFers start selling for pennies items that take hours to find, then everyone except HCers might lose interest and stop having fun. Besides that, there's no reason to suspect the game won't be fabulous. Every Beta tester's review is glowing.