I bought Dragon Age II off of Amazon.com. Every time I hit the "play" button, a SecROM message pops up and says it needs to check the release date since this is the first time I'm trying to launch the game. Every time I start the release date check, a message shows up saying " an error occured during the online release date check." Please help...
We had a report from a player that a fresh install of the Origin client helped to solve the issue. Try at first to just delete and re-install Origin with the latest file from our website: www.origin.com/download
Check if you are not able to download and install Dragon Age 2 out of your Origin "My Games" library without an error message. If you still have trouble, it might be necessary to clean your PC from all DA2 related registry entries, which might cause trouble with the release check.
Please keep us updated.
Basti
I am having the same problem. I bought a copy of Dragon Age 2 from Mac Game store. After waiting more than an hour to download the game, then install it, I keep getting an error message stating that the release date check failed. There is no information on the securom site that I can find related to Mac, so the instructions are unhelpful and infuriating. I also tried your suggested solution above, downloading the Orion client. That also made no difference. Why is this install so difficult? I've never had so much trouble installing a game in my life. I am running the latest version of OS X for Mac.
I've installed uninstalled and reinstalled the origin for PC and I am still getting the release date check error. I've also uninstalled and reinstalled the game itself. Is there anything else I can do. I bought the disk from Amazon
Installing the patches will solve this issue. It takes the Securom system and replaces it with an EA account system. Since people seem to be confused, here is a link to the patch page. 1.04 is the one you want.
