SecuROM has been a pain in the ass of every PC gamer since it first turned up a few years back, so every time it’s rolled back should go down as a win for the little guy.
It’s the latest in a series of moves by publisher EA, which has scaled back the influence of SecuROM in its PC games in recent months following the disastrous launch of Spore. Dragon Age never had it, Mass Effect’s was removed, and now this.
Note, however, this applies only to the Steam version of the game. Guess EA felt Steam’s own authentication routines were good enough.
Battlefield: Bad Company 2 PC Patched; SecuROM DRM Removed from Steam Version [Shacknews]
NewGuy
Wednesday, March 17, 2010 at 5:54 PMFinally EA is realizing Securom is causing more damage than good.
Anon
Wednesday, March 17, 2010 at 9:13 PMPerhaps now that the game has been available for X amount of time the likely hood of a large number of sales being lost to piracy is reduced.
Dunnowhathuh
Wednesday, March 17, 2010 at 9:40 PMNice, I’m glad I bought the game before, I’m really glad now.
brent3000
Wednesday, March 17, 2010 at 11:26 PMNow if they remove the Online authentication on some of their games that would be good :D
alinos
Thursday, March 18, 2010 at 7:50 AMyeah go pirates :|
El Phantasmogoro
Thursday, March 18, 2010 at 12:03 PMI think the issue is more about not punishing the paying customers, rather than making it easier to pirate (especially when it has already been done). This game looked good. I might buy it now.
Steam is DRM I can handle.
Scott Besanvalle
Thursday, March 18, 2010 at 10:36 AMFix the damn connectivity/Servers!
K thx bai! xD
mambodog
Thursday, March 18, 2010 at 5:31 PMso it now it goes from having two lots of DRM to one? right…
when it had two, that was still two too many.