Just because SecuROM has given you an issue before, doesn't mean it will this time. I've only had one problem with it over the years I've been playing PC games, and that's a lot of games with SecuROM
What I'd
honestly suggest is either wait for a retail version or wait for a Steam sale (As you're unsure about the PC version). You can also get it
on Impulse and GamersGate, so keep your eye on it there as it might go on sale too. Funnily enough, the Direct2Drive version doesn't say whether it has DRM or not, so you might want to get in touch with their support staff.
It seems, to me, that the 360 version isn't what you want - So don't get it. You'd be paying more for, technically, less.
Thanks for the reply, but if SecuROM had given you the same problems that it has given me, you wouldn't even suggest risking it. We are talking knackered DVD drives, regular blue screens of death and various other issues too numerous to go into here, suffice it to say, SecuROM can go fuck itself! I now have a new top of the range PC and I am not putting myself through the shit that I went through with my old PC, even if it is not guaranteed to happen...it really was that awful an experience on my old PC.
I'm glad SecuROM has not given you the problems that it has given me, but as I said to another user who said that they had no problems with SecuCRAP, to paraphrase, everyone's computer is different and therefore reacts entirely differently to the same piece of software, or in this case crappy, diabolical malware!
Lots of people think that SecuROM is a harmless little disc-check program, the truth is that it is essentially a nasty, little root-kit that nestles at the base of your OS and can fundamentally affect the operability of your system should it choose to. It has more access to your OS than you do as the administrator, for God's sake!
As to the rest of your post, I can't get it on Steam regardless of whether it is on a sale or not, because that has SecuCRAP DRM embedded in it, as well as Steam DRM, as I stated in my post about it elsewhere, which means thare are ostensibly two forms of DRM embedded in the one game...absolutely ludicrous!
If the Steam version has SecuROM, which it has, you can bet your bottom dollar that all the other digital versions will have it, as well as the retail DVDs. This means that I either act illegally and get a crack, which I am fundamentally opposed to, or I get the inferior xbox360 version. The big question is, how inferior is the 360 version? There is inferior and there is Dragon Age: Origins inferior, which is very nearly a different game on the 360, as it is so much crapper than the PC version.
