I remember hearing (or reading) something about the X series having the accursed copy protection.
Does it still ruin cd drives, or do newer copies even have it anymore?
Would it be okay to get it from Steam?
I never bought X2 at all but I know X3TC no longer has and DRM after patch 2.7 I believe.
Does X3 have a cockpit? 3rd person views kind of kill the immersion for me.
Check out this mod: http://forum.egosoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=271003 you'll see that mod has the cockpit mod included in the package.
Does it still ruin cd drives, or do newer copies even have it anymore?
Would it be okay to get it from Steam?
I had a look in the big box of crap and yes the original release X2 has starforce on it although I think it was stripped out of later releases of the game.
No idea if the Steam version still has it.
AFAIK all version of X games have draconian DRM. However they also all have it removed after the game has been out a while, so just installing the latest patch will remove any requirements for that.
I too remember that Starforce piece of shit.
I lost 2 dvd drives to that pos. Thats when I stopped paying/playing for games with very draconian DRM on them... oops did I just say that? 🙄