Dragon Age 2 has Securom

[Eiv]

Turns out EA/Bioware managed to sneak securom on to Dragon Age 2 even after they denied that any DRM was being implimented

http://n4g.com/news/719458/dragon-age-2-sneaks-securom-into-your-pc

EA has gone against a court order to tell consumers when DRM is being used in all documentation after the Spore court case

 

[Zaik]

Probably the funniest part is that they actually paid the Securom guys.

I mean, does that crap even delay pirates anymore? Maybe a few hours? A day tops?

Hold on I'll go check.

 

[Irridium]

God fucking dammit.

And this is after Bioware saying DA2 wouldn't use fucking Securom.

http://social.bioware.com/forum/1/topic/141/index/6194280

Third Section, first line.

Mother fucker. I am so god damn pissed off right now I can hardly talk.

EDIT: Seems the poster below clarified. Thank god. I was in the middle of sorting out my thoughts to write one hell of a rant. Still, fuck the release date checker. Fuck it hard. Whats it even supposed to do? Stop people from uploading the game early? Didn't do its job very well then. In fact, it failed.

Fuck you release date check. I bought the game, let me play already. Some say I bought the game and own it, others say I bought the license and can only use it to play it. Either way, your preventing me from playing, so stop it you fucks.

 

[mireko]

*Reposts self*


It seems that the SecuROM thing was a false positive.

..No, really.

From a user on Ars:

It's Sony DADC, not SecuROM. SecuROM is an individual product suite of Sony's.

And you're looking in the wrong place - per the original article, there are two .exe files that get flagged as 'SecuROM' in a temp folder in your user profile directory. There's nothing at all SecuROM in the actual game installation, yeah.

My own suspicion is that the tools being used to look for this are going off of heuristics, see a different Sony DADC product that has similarities to SecuROM (the release date checker), and just flag it as such, lacking any kind of more specific definition.

But yeah, it's a bunch of non-active files in a temp folder. I just tried wiping it out and the game doesn't care - I honestly think it's a one-time 'is it time for the game to be out yet?' check that fires up.

Which is further backed up by BioWare's response at http://www.bluesnews.com/s/119644/bioware-on-dragon-age-2-drm

 

[Bags159]

Wonder how this will affect them in March Mayhem.

 

[Neverhoodian]

Really, EA? You seriously thought you could sneak in shit like that and nobody would notice?

I've stopped buying your products before out of protest, don't make me do it again.

EDIT: just read mireko's post. So it's a false alarm after all?

 

[Zaik]

Oh, so they didn't actually do put it in.

And here I was about to laugh about it being posted for all the interwebs on the 8th.

 

[Shameless]

EA, my faith in you slowly shrinks and decays like a sand in a hourglass.

 

[Eiv]

*Reposts self*


It seems that the SecuROM thing was a false positive.

..No, really.

From a user on Ars:

It's Sony DADC, not SecuROM. SecuROM is an individual product suite of Sony's.

And you're looking in the wrong place - per the original article, there are two .exe files that get flagged as 'SecuROM' in a temp folder in your user profile directory. There's nothing at all SecuROM in the actual game installation, yeah.

My own suspicion is that the tools being used to look for this are going off of heuristics, see a different Sony DADC product that has similarities to SecuROM (the release date checker), and just flag it as such, lacking any kind of more specific definition.

But yeah, it's a bunch of non-active files in a temp folder. I just tried wiping it out and the game doesn't care - I honestly think it's a one-time 'is it time for the game to be out yet?' check that fires up.

Which is further backed up by BioWare's response at http://www.bluesnews.com/s/119644/bioware-on-dragon-age-2-drm

i read that too, but it seems too conveniant considering that the file has been detected from multiple sources.

 

[mireko]

*Reposts self*


It seems that the SecuROM thing was a false positive.

..No, really.

From a user on Ars:

It's Sony DADC, not SecuROM. SecuROM is an individual product suite of Sony's.

And you're looking in the wrong place - per the original article, there are two .exe files that get flagged as 'SecuROM' in a temp folder in your user profile directory. There's nothing at all SecuROM in the actual game installation, yeah.

My own suspicion is that the tools being used to look for this are going off of heuristics, see a different Sony DADC product that has similarities to SecuROM (the release date checker), and just flag it as such, lacking any kind of more specific definition.

But yeah, it's a bunch of non-active files in a temp folder. I just tried wiping it out and the game doesn't care - I honestly think it's a one-time 'is it time for the game to be out yet?' check that fires up.

Which is further backed up by BioWare's response at http://www.bluesnews.com/s/119644/bioware-on-dragon-age-2-drm

i read that too, but it seems too conveniant considering that the file has been detected from multiple sources.

That's not quite the point. There are two .exes that are identified as being a part of the SecuROM suite, but both of these are in the temp folder, and the game is unaffected if they're removed.

It's not that the files aren't there, it's just that they aren't what people are identifying them as being. If they were actually a part of SecuROM they'd be in the game directory and would obviously affect the game somehow (otherwise it wouldn't work as DRM).

I don't have the game myself, so I can't test this, but based on the data provided so far this seems pretty likely.