Last week’s Dragon Age II launch was somewhat spoiled by (bad reviews and) reports that the game included EA’s controversial SecuROM DRM. Turns out it’s aaaaaaaaalllllll just a biiiiiig misunderstanding.
“We use Sony Release Control which shares some functionality with other Sony products (SecuROM), but we do not use SecuROM for the DRM,” says BioWare’s live team technical producer Derek “CrushBug” French over on Blue’s News. “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.
“There is no running process once it unwraps and self-destructs.”
There’s also a detailed explanation about it all over on EA’s support site for the game.
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