That is GOOD news.  I was incredibly disappointed when I heard that Mass Effect had the machine limit DRM but I bought it anyway because I was looking forward to it so much.  Looking back, I wish I hadn't just for the principle.  It's too bad that Mass Effect was such a good game and I couldn't resist the pull...

People dont want their computers infected with malware. How is that silly?

EA has been improving for the past few years.  They're just in an entrenched position, so movement will be fairly slow.

Its silly because most DRM has long since ceased to be anything that fits the technical definition of "malware". DRM has a horrible reputation that WAS well deserved. Nowadays things have changed somewhat.

I think if people pirated less and bought more things would be better.  Even if you pirate then buy, thats fine.  But not buying happens all too often.

 I've had horrible, horrible customer support with them.  Their DRM has crippled 1 disk drive and forced me to do a restore on my computer.  Their games are a pain to fully remove. 

The last game I bought was Battlefield 2142 - which I couldn't even play, as the patch caused my computer to crash when loading the map.  I couldn't return it either, as the cd-key was registered onto my account.  Upon contacting their online support about the map crashing, I was informed I should have carefully read the system requirements.  Yeah, thanks for that EA.  I even included all my damn system specs, which were more than enough to play the game.

Among that, they buy good titles and dumb them down.  They also have a history of saying one thing, than doing another (I remember a few titles which would have low drm, than got buffed up near release)

EDIT: I'd also like to say while I don't buy any games owned by EA, I don't pirate them either.  I completely ignore them.

After I played a pirated version, I decided to buy the game. It was too good not to play it. But I really hate that activation limit. So I didn't buy other games with it except for Spore after they promised an deactivator.

And yeah, I didn't buy (or play) Mirror's Edge because of it's DRM.

Not paying $50 for a rental is far from silly.

Personally the whole thing worked out fine for me. I waited until EA removed the limited installation restriction from the Steam version of the game, then picked it up. The result was that instead of getting $50 for the game, they got $20, just because their launch DRM was nonsense. Given its replay value and length, I'm just as glad I got it for cheap.

*ROFLMAO* Yeah, that's why so m any people wrote in different forums that SecuSuck killed their DVD drives, would crash the game if you have certain software running and all that. Wake up to reality.

And on-topic: If that proves to be correct DA:O and ME2 will be a definitive purchase for me.

This news made my day! 

Dragon Age has everything to be an EXCELLENT game.

Evil Chris posted about this on Twitter, via the (hilarious and constantly updated) Biofeed:

I would still prefer to acquire a digital version of Dragon Age, as long as it's not through EA's crappy digital service.

To make things REALLY perfect, would be to have Dragon Age on Impulse.

Well, Chris' post on the DA board stated that the CD/DVD won't contain no other form of copy protection/DRM than disc check.

I'm wondering though how things turn out when it comes to updates/patches/downloadable content ...

Sorry, but any DRM scheme that adversely interferes with anything on my system constitutes as malware to me.  Thus such games will never be installed.  The newest versions of SecuROM and Starforce (Starforce was never allowed on my system) are banned from my system.  If this makes me silly, then so be it.

I was pleasantly surprised to read the news last night. I felt bad for BioWare after the Mass Effect release when people were boycotting the game because their parent/publisher just decided to slap SecuROM on it. Hopefully now Dragon Age won't suffer the same fate BioWare games deserve to be played, not boycotted!