After a rather nasty debacle with DRM in Mass Effect last year, BioWare’s Community Coordinator, Chris Priestly, announced on their forums that the their upcoming RPG, Dragon Age: Origins, will not be plagued with any sort of intrusive, nasty software that restricts your game installations or forces you to go online to verify the game’s authenticity.

"We have chosen not to use SecuROM in any version of Dragon Age that is distributed by EA or BioWare." said Priestly.

Instead of using SecuROM like other publishers have selected to use to safeguard their titles against software piracy, BioWare and Electronic Arts have decided to follow the lead of games like Demigod and Fallout 3 and will only require gamers to have the game disc in their computer in order to play Dragon Age.

Though this may sound like good news, in the past, games that decided to forgo DRM have suffered from piracy. Demigod, which was released last month, did not use any sort of DRM and was promptly pirated over 100,000 times, crashing their multiplayer servers. On the other hand, Electronic Art’s Spore was protected by DRM but still managed to become the most pirated game in history.

The news comes as somewhat of a surprise because Electronic Arts has used SecuROM in a number of games in the past, including Spore, Red Alert 3 and Crysis. After a wave of public criticism that eventually forced Electronic Arts to reconsider and revamp the DRM restrictions on some of their games, it appears that Electronic Arts is finally getting the picture.

Gamers do not like DRM.

A spiritual successor of the critically acclaimed Baldur’s Gate franchise, Dragon Age is set to be released on the PC, Xbox 360 and Playstation in November.