{"id":9795,"date":"2011-02-02T10:59:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-02T08:59:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"dragon-age-2-pc-drm-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/9795-dragon-age-2-pc-drm-explained","title":{"rendered":"Dragon Age 2 PC DRM explained"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another PC release, another DRM controversy. Although, perhaps not in the case of BioWare&rsquo;s upcoming Dragon Age 2 launch, because its own DRM policies seem positively libertine in comparison to some others&rsquo;.<\/p>\n<p>BioWare&rsquo;s community manager Chris Priestly has posted a description of the game&rsquo;s DRM policies on the company&rsquo;s <a href=\"http:\/\/social.bioware.com\/forum\/1\/topic\/141\/index\/5887403\/1#5887403\" target=\"_blank\">forum:<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8211; Steam versions use Steam DRM, no other DRM is added.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8211; Non-Steam versions (digital or retail disc) are as follows:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; No disc check, you do not need the disc in drive to play.<\/p>\n<p>&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; No limit on the total number of PCs you can install and play the game on.<\/p>\n<p>&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; There is a limit to the number of unique\/different PCs that can start\/play the game within a time window [5 PCs in 24hrs].<\/p>\n<p>&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Each install requires logging in to your EA account to verify game ownership and if you are a member of these forums, you have an EA account.<\/p>\n<p>&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; You can play offline but the game will require a login check after a select period of days.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Release Control (does not use Securom)<\/p>\n<p>&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; It does not install anything to the PC.<\/p>\n<p>&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Sole purpose is to check with a server to validate whether the game release date has passed or not.<\/p>\n<p>&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; It completely removes itself after the game release date has passed.<\/p>\n<p>&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; You will not be able to play until that date has passed.<\/p>\n<p>&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Dates amd times are set to the retail street date per country.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/social.bioware.com\/forum\/1\/topic\/141\/index\/5887403\/1#5887403<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DA2 phone home<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}