We haven't heard from EA on the story about
reports of SecuROM DRM in
Dragon Age II, but BioWare Live Team Technical Producer Derek "CrushBug" French made a couple of posts to our forums that discuss the matter. He
says:
"Sorry, but there is some confusion on this. We use Sony Release Control which shares some functionality with other Sony products (SecuROM), but we do not use SecuROM for the DRM. Once the Sony Release Control check is passed, Release Control self-destructs, removing the Release Control wrapper and it is never used again. Game updates will not use Release Control because obviously the release date is passed. Additionally, installing the game and then any future game patch will also remove the Sony Release Control check and it will never run on your computer."
When asked about a running SecuROM process,
he said: "There is no running process once it unwraps and self-destructs." In reply to a question about registry entries, he replies: "An inert registry entry that does nothing." Finally, when asked about files remaining on users' hard drives, he explains: "In a temp folder that is never referenced again. This part is sloppy and should be cleaned up, though. We will see about doing that in a patch."
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Slashman wrote on Mar 12, 2011, 10:37: Despite these noted flaws by positive reviewers, they are giving the game high scores because it feels more 'Mass Effecty'. Actually, they're giving it good scores because it's a good game in its own right even if it's not the same as the first Dragon Age.
Would I like it if it were more like the first game? Sure, I definitely would. Does that make the game bad because it's not?
No. It doesn't.
That simple, really, but people seem so hung up on what the first game was that they aren't even willing to look at this one as its own beast. |
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