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Report: SecuRom DRM Found in Dragon Age II March 11, 2011 According to this Ars Technica report, citing a report from advocacy group Reclaim Your Game, the dreaded SecuRom DRM has made its way into PC version of Dragon Age II, despite BioWare (and EA) saying in its forums that it "does not use SecuROM." Surprise! Not only does the game use SecuRom, but all involved have failed to mention this fact to users in any way. There is no warning in the EULA, during the install, on the game's packaging, or on its official web site. Back in 2008, EA was sued for failing to inform consumers about the DRM scheme in free trial versions of some of its games. Now EA could face similar legal action for its secret implementation of SecuRom in Dragon Age II. Could this have been some sort of odd mistake or was EA trying to sneak the DRM past consumers? We will have to wait and see what they say. Source: Ars Technica

Bioware is going to get killed by EA, IMO.

http://social.bioware.com/forum/1/topic/141/index/6194280/25

Not only disc version but also Steam version.

Looks like Bioware is going to get some hate storms.

Update: No SecuROM DRM on Steam version

So, those that interested in the game. Avoid retail box.

Christ, what an absolute mess of a release this is.

And they're charging $60 for it. As much as I enjoyed the first one, Dragon Age 2 can wait... Probably a long time.

now I'm 100% sure I won't buy it.

so what does this do?. I dont get why Steam games have DRM when Steam it self is an DRM like i got batman arkum for 7.50 steam sale and its an console port but for some strange reason demanded an product code and an whole heap of pointless DRM things. 

because big publishers believe that having extra DRM benefits them, which is complete bullshit.

In short, DRM works similar to rootkit that install itself at protected level and making it nearly impossible to remove where you mostly have to reintall your OS from scratch to really clear it out of your computer.

Aside from it doing stuff behind your back depending on what they make the DRM do, it also open up to exploit for hackers to easily take over your computer.

But the most damning thing is probably that it causes some side effects to your computer causing some weird incompatibility problem and just outright making something else not work that has absolutely nothing to do with the "original intent" of the DRM. (quoted loosely since we'll never know if its original intent was actually just to stop you from using pirated copy)

And to follow up on the quoted, pirated version is completely free of DRM, which makes you think, the original intent was just a lie. We know it does not stop pirates.

To sum it all up, DRM left a bad taste over the last decades or two where they break many people's system where the more cricital problem was that their Windows just refused to boot at all. I had my share of trouble with DVD burner just doesn't burn or do some funny shit until the computer is formatted.

That sounds pretty harmful. How could they risk it to include it in DA2?

The people who makes DRM are one of the best sales personels ever.

Who else could convince publishers to attach a broken piece of software at a cost?