Electronic Arts is famed for cramming SecuROM into everything, seemingly just for fun. That’s why it’s quite surprising that BioWare’s upcoming RPG Dragon Age: Origins won’t be sporting masses of oppressive DRM. Players will only be required to undertake a disc check before they can start having sex with sorceresses.
“It’s a philosophy that we’re building a game, with Dragon Age, that is such a great value to price ratio, and we have such an ambitious and valuable, to fans, downloadable content plan that we trust our fans,” explains EA’s Ray Muzyka. “We’re releasing a game we think they are going to see is really useful, valuable and high quality to price ration that they are going to pay us for that, because it’s evident that the game is good game.
“It’s a long game, a lot of content. The post-release content is going to motivate people to register with us and become customers long term. It’s all optional, but we’re confident enough with the quality of the offering that we know our fans will be loyal and support us. It’s about trust — we trust our fans. We’re counting on them to keep us in business. We ask them to consider that, to not pirate, and to support us and in turn we’ll be very, very supportive of them.”
The statement very much reads like EA begging consumers not to steal Dragon Age. We’ll see just how trustworthy the gamers are when it comes out. I personally think it’s disgusting when DRM-free games are ripped off to the levels they are on PC, and then gamers have the nerve to whine about DRM and claim that piracy happens because SecuROM exists. I certainly hope Dragon Age rakes in the sales though. I think it deserves to.
