I personally agree with Max on all of these. I love that Runic Game released the game creation tools with Torchlight. I used TorchED to create my own content several night instead of playing the game. I had fun playing with the editor. I find a game more fun if you can play with it and if you get stuck you can help yourself with a little cheating. I am totally against DRM it cripples game and is a big hassle. I am not sure if I will be picking up D3 if I have to have a constant internet connection. I am on DSL and it is always on but I do a lot of gaming offline too. Actually most of my gaming is offline. I rarely play online computer games because of lag and the hassle of logging into a system. I am a casual gamer. I do not play for extended amounts of time. I play maybe 30 mins - 1 hr a night and do that every night of the week to relax after work. If I have to waste 5 minutes of that logging into a system before I can even play it really cuts down on my play time.

Here are Max's views: http://www.incgamers.com/Interviews/348/runic-games-max-schaefer-talks-rmt-drm-and-modding