BioWare's Dragon Age Won't Have Invasive DRM
No SecuROM is Dragon Age.
Are you sick of stupid DRM schemes that get in the way of your legitimate gaming experience? BioWare feels your pain and has heard your cries.
BioWare community coodinator Chris Priestly announced on the Dragon Age forums that upcoming PC RPG will not come with SecuROM copy protection that’s been common on all EA and BioWare’s recently published games, including Mass Effect.
“We’re happy to announce that the boxed/retail PC version of Dragon Age: Origins will use only a basic disk check and it will not require online authentication,” Priestly wrote. “In other words, the retail PC version of the game won’t require you to go online to authenticate the game for offline play.”
Games protected by SecuROM have been causing problems for EA’s games, with the most widely publicized being Spore. EA recently released a deauthorization tool that helps users better manage their SecuROM-protected games.
“We have chosen not to use SecuROM in any version of Dragon Age that is distributed by EA or BioWare,” added Priestly.
Dragon Age: Origins is set for a release for the second half of 2009.

Valve is the only company which has done DRM correctly it seems, basically loading it with value added features which exceeds the inconvenience of having to log in to play your game.
If you make the process pain free and non-restrictive, people won't complain about DRM in the first place.
Now EA hits the news for NOT using DRM?! They are still idiots regardless.
Valve is the only company which has done DRM correctly it seems, basically loading it with value added features which exceeds the inconvenience of having to log in to play your game.
If you make the process pain free and non-restrictive, people won't complain about DRM in the first place.
I don't even install games anymore on my computer.
Even disk check it's stupid everytime u wanna play a game changing discs like crazy that's just fucking retarded.
Sounds good to me!
What, get your hands confused? You folks are professional writers, but apparently can't proof-read.
DEFINITELY, but you miss one point. They hired a psychologist to find the perfect price point on games to maximize profit. The consumer and company wins. I've bought multiple games and copies on STEAM because of the unimaginable deals. And it doesn't mess with my multi hundred frames per second on source engine =D
Hahahah, ". . . ass cheeks sloshing around . . ." that was good!! haha
On steam, I log in, download the game and away I go... on any computer in the world that has a net connection.
That is a convenience and also very cost effective... as i don't have to repurchase the game because copyright laws don't allow me to make a backup of the game... and the stupid DRM wont let me either..
Has nothing to do with anyone's arse cheeks.
I was one of the people who flamed Bioware hard several times with emails about Mass Effect and being Microsofts whore, remember Mass Effect came out on the Xbox only at first.
I have Steam on my rig but only run it to play HF2 and the expansions to it. I never have downloaded anything from steam I had to pay for. With my recient love of Fallout 3 I broke down and downloaded all three expansions now from Microsuck and will never do that again. They want me to be online with Games for windows Live just to play Fallout 3 expansions. There is an easy work around for that but Bethesda is now one of Microsoft's whore and will learn their lesson like Bioware did with MS and freaking EA Games.
I will only buy games and expansion content in a local retailer now that does not require online activation, if that means having to wait or not getting a certain game then so be it. There are plenty of games out there. Gamestop already told me Fallout 3 is comming out with the first two expansions included on disk, real soon.
That's why I'm using cracks for games I legally own...