Dragon Age DRM Plans Divulged

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• Dude, what world do you live in? Can you show me one game with SecuROM that isn't pirated? Just one. I... : l0s7man
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  You probably don't know the pirate community. It will get pirated whether it has DRM or not. They are sma... : leuthil
  • It's funny thing about Steam. Steam is in certain sense more restricting than SecuROM; i.e. with SecuROM ... : l0s7man
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  Sadly, I agree. Its a nice gesture Its probably not going to improve sales or limit piracy. : BorenKets123
  • How about if we are just happy if the disk check doesn't negatively affect sales? : Derek French

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• i'm sure that's exactly what it is. : valael
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  The Sims 3 has a similar policy. Seems like EA is changing DRM policy? I hope so. : Sturm08
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    I can only hope. For some reason, EA is one of least progressive major studios in the business (from dist... : Dr_Cube
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      I think EA just saw the move to digital distribution and wanted to control it as much as possible. Rather... : psamathos
      • EA has gone through through three (or more?) big rounds of layoffs in the past 18 months. I'm kind of ho... : qsylvr
• A penny saved is a penny earned. Why waste all of that money and energy when your efforts will be in vain... : ElArabDeMagnifico
• It's a Bioware RPG in the tradition of Baldur's Gate that comes complete with an SDK. At the very least i : Wikidd

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  I'm not attacking your position, I'm genuinely curious as to what is wrong with games that perform a one ... : Porkasaurus
  • I think it's a reasonable position because there is no guarantee that when SecuRom goes bust we will be a... : MeestaNob
  • I have lived in areas where my connection was dial-up and highly unstable and online validations were ver... : Psigun
  • When I was in the middle of ME last year my PC started crashing and I ended up with a damaged windows ins... : malroth
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    It's insulting. Being treated like a criminal first and a customer second. Meanwhile, the people who AR... : capt tripps
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      I think the "being treated like a criminal" reaction is just a matter of what you're used to. Disk-check... : Johnny Law
      • There were howls of outrage, mainly because of incompatibilities with various system configurations (what... : Wikidd

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  Sorry to hear that. We are trying to come up with an even better solution for the future. Also, this is o... : Derek French
  • Yeah, sucks to be you guys with balancing the two. Seriously and with no irony, best of luck. :( I'm buyi... : xsoulbrothax
  • I really like buying disk based games but I often opt for Steam simply because of the inconvenience of ch... : johncuyle
  • stick with the good ol disk check, must better than the authentication for sp games : myatomicgarden
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    so. Steam then? Because I love Steam. : valael
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      Since it's EA I'm guessing Steam is a given : drchocapic
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        Unless you live in the UK :-/ : GenBanks
        • What gives with that? And why is Crysis + Warhead available but virtually no other titles?? : Wikidd
  • Whatever system gets used, I'd love it if we were to activate disk copies on Steam. : A Trusted Friend
  • I'm glad SecureRom is ditched. It causes all kinds of trouble for legitimate purchasers. Example - it g... : loc nar
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    Does this mean I have to keep the media in the drive everytime I play? I'd rather have option between the... : droveri
    • Simple disk check w/out SecuROM means you could probably get away with a dummy image in a virtual drive. : Wikidd
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  Who still buys PC games in stores anyway? : Vincent Grayson
  • I still buy retail, i hate the thought of losing my games because a company goes bankrupt or fails. I wi... : myatomicgarden
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    I like boxes. : Arceihn
    • That and why not get it from Amazon (eg.) when getting it from Steam would cost me more? : yuried
• There's an elephant in the room, but discussing it violates the rules. In conclusion, woot? : pleasedpig

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  And that wasn't even all that decent either : ShadowRam
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    Must... resist.... feeding.. trolls... : Anir
    • It's ok. Some people are allowed to have poor taste in games. : carbontree

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  EA is publishing it, dude. They'd have agreed to this. : Arceihn
  • Not only are they publishing it, they OWN Bioware. : Kristian Joensen
• haha. YEAH FUCK EA : valael

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• This... all of it!^^^ Good job Bioware. I will buy this if it is devoid of SecuROM. : axiomatic

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• Technically still sorta illegal, but no company will EVER prosecute you for fiddling with their code. ... : MeestaNob
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  Marrbe, that's described in the End User License Agreement. : A Trusted Friend
  • Which absolutely everyone reads right? : ReiMomo

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• The game was made for PC first and when I played it, the interface was pretty similar to those of Baldur'... : drchocapic
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  It's the opposite in this case. Having seen quite a bit of this game, I have no idea how they're going to... : Chris Remo
  • I kinda agree with you here. : drchocapic

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  Yeah. I'm sure that publishers are thinking "geez, we can't win" when they read stuff like this :-) but : Johnny Law
  • That's what Relic does with CoH I believe. Rather annoying if you want to play a Steam copy of it offline... : A Trusted Friend
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  Just use a damn crack. I use cracks for all my games I bought. : scary_monster
  • And here I thought crack could only be used for human consumption... : Skyburst101
• You'll just have to buy it digitally if that's you're way of thinking. In my case, I'd rather bother w... : gzubluck

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• HURR DURR HURR DURR : abovedefault
• Mass Defect Mass Errect : ElArabDeMagnifico
• You sir, have failed. : Anir

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  Requiring to have a disk in the drive IS retarded. Failed check 2 : baron calamity
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    Much, much, much, much less so than online authentication with single player games : Ebu
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      I'd much rather authenticate once and never think about the disc I bought again, than have to put it in t... : Vincent Grayson
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        Falloout 3 definitly failed hard at check 2. It's the reason why I didn't buy it. I liked the game a lot ... : StriderNL
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          So how did you play it if you did not buy it? : abovedefault
          • Why do you feel the need to ask silly questions? : Zyrusticae
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          I don't recall Fallout 3 having any retarded DRM. I didn't have to authenticate online, and it doesn't ev... : Vincent Grayson
          • GFW or disk in drive : Ebu
  • Nah it's just lazy, it always worked like that in the past and it was fine... : StriderNL

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• Man, there's always gotta be a catch... : inthane
• In return, I shall buy a copy - even if it does kind've suck. I actually considered buying Prince of P... : poindexter1985