I'll take your word for it. :)

Yep I know, but it's still crazy awesome.

I agree 100% :)

For us talking to people on the forums and helping them with problems is just normal. In our opinion that is what every developer and every company should do and, well... we just like it :)
The 1.4 version of the game should not be DRM-free and it's not. In some cases after applying patch 1.4 and then available hotfixes, there might be a situation, where you might be able to run the game without the disc in the drive. However, that concerns only a certain group of people. Now, we decided to go completely DRM-free and turn the option to play without the game disc on for everyone.
acare84: Yep, we also plan to include this patch into Digital Distribution versions, although I can't exactly say when will that happen. We will do our best to make it as fast as possible.