BioWare today announced that their spiritual successor to the critically acclaimed Baldur’s Gate series, Dragon Age: Origins, will ship without the added baggage of the SecuROM digital rights management software. Typically used in games published by Electronic Arts, the SecuROM software has developed a reputation in the PC gaming industry for imposing unfair limitations on the rights of consumers. Chris Priestly, community manager for Dragon Age: Origins, stated that the game will use a simpler, less intrusive form of copy protection instead:
“We’re happy to announce that the boxed/retail PC version of Dragon Age: Origins will use only a basic disk check and it will not require online authentication. In other words, the retail PC version of the game won’t require you to go online to authenticate the game for offline play. We have chosen not to use SecuROM in any version of Dragon Age that is distributed by EA or BioWare.”
That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for gaming kind.
Source: Dragon Age: Origins Forums
Richard Mitchell is a video game addict living in Toronto. He has been gaming for more than two decades, and despite multiple interventions, continues to game today. He has an Xbox 360, a PS3, a Wii, a Nintendo DS, a gaming PC, and a life, and does his best to juggle them all.