I'm still holding out on buying x3. Oblivion is surely going to take my mind away from all that starcrap saga. I don't mind the idea of protecting games but they've taken it way too far. When you're buying into new technology you don't want to be seeing other users with stuff like dead drives, reinstalls, games which take minutes to fire up (whilst doing a turd on your dvd drive), and games which just don't run.