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Originally posted by Disney Games & Apps Support: The only reported communication from Disney is something like, “Yeah, we know, we’ll do something about it someday.” Why not proactively release the game without DRM? Or alert purchasers, or the media, of what was coming? Why is it okay for Disney to essentially take back a product bought by a customer with no recompense? After all, the company knew it wasn’t going to renew the SecuROM subscription and therefore knew that such a decision would brick a whole bunch of people’s purchased games. It also would have been one thing if Disney had been the slightest bit proactive about all of this. If that doesn’t highlight the absurdity of this particular story for you, nothing will. So as not to lose sight of this, the DRM company told the legit purchaser of a game that they should try to get the publisher of the game to release a non-protected game so that it could once again be played. “You are right with your assumption, we can’t run this service anymore for Disney titles, therefore all activations are denied.īest would be to contact Disney to get a refund for your purchase or convince them to release an uprotected version of the game.” Also notable is that when at least one person opened up a support ticket with SecuROM itself to fix the issue, the SecuROM folks told that person: This means that even existing owners of the delisted game cannot play it for the foreseeable future.įun! Notably, those that pirated the game aren’t having this issue.

The cause of this problem appears to be Disney not renewing their ‘subscription’ to the SecuROM activation system for this game. This applies to the retail version as well as the Steam version which is delisted from the store. Players trying to launch Tron: Evolution are now met with a message telling them that the ‘serial key has expired’. As an example of how you don’t really own what you buy anymore, the game simply bricked when Disney decided not to renew its SaaS subscription for SecuROM software. The game was laced with SecuROM and suffered many of the same problems as previously described. Back in 2010, Disney released the game Tron: Evolution. The track record is enough to make you wonder why anyone would use DRM at all after this whole debacle.īut… it’s still happening. So, SecuROM was a really bad DRM used by several publishers to “protect” video games, by which I mean it mostly just annoyed legitimate buyers, got some of those publishers sued, and ultimately made the game unplayable on modern operating systems.

Show of hands: who remembers SecuROM? Alright, put your hands down, we can’t see each other anyway. Fri, Dec 6th 2019 07:39pm - Timothy Geigner

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