Dragon Age II SecuROM Report Follow-Up

Following an earlier report that Dragon Age II utilizes SecuROM, EA and BioWare have both noted the title uses “Release Control” – made by the same people – and not SecuROM. Reclaim Your Game was approached by EA BioWare to resolve the issue but declined, and offers a follow up with an indepth look at the definition of SecuROM and Release Control.

In this case, SecuROM does offer a service called SecuROM Release Control. Contrary to what EA and Bioware have stated, SecuROM Release Control is implemented in Dragon Age 2 without Consumer notification through its Game Packaging, Manual, Readme and EULA. RYG have confirmed the presence of SecuROM as a Release Control in its Analysis Report.

We feel that we have provided more than enough evidence to validate our findings and, once again, places the spotlight back on EA and Bioware to defend themselves and their statements. This also includes their lack of notification of SecuROM in Dragon Age as described in our Evaluation Reports and SecuROM Analyses in Dragon Age 2.

Lastly, we feel that this final report should settle the matter regarding SecuROM implemented in Dragon Age 2, regardless of whether it was (full blown) SecuROM or not.

If a game is using any part of SecuROM, the game is using SecuROM regardless of how many SecuROM services it uses.

BioWare did note ahead the game would ship with release lock protection. Considering that, RYG’s argument that it is a part of “SecuROM’s suite” while the name SecuROM is avoided everywhere in the EULA seems a bit of a pedantic one, though technically valid.

Thanks Blue’s News.