Publisher Electronic Arts has released a De-Authorization Management Tool for PC gamers afflicted with one of its many catalog titles packaged with SecuROM for digital rights management. This is for you, disgruntled Mass Effect owner.


With the EA De-Authorization Management Tool, you can now do sane things like reformat your hard drive and install new video game hardware without the same level of hassle (or using up one of your handful of permitted activations). Simply de-authorize your installed PC game, then install the game on another machine, without wasting those previous software activations.

This applies to games like Mass Effect, Dead Space and even your copy of The Sims 2 IKEA Home Stuff expansion—any EA published PC game released after May 2008.


For the full list of applicable games, read on.

Burnout Paradise: The Ultimate Box

Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3

Crysis Warhead

Dead Space

FiFA Manager 09

FIFA Soccer 09

Littlest Pet Shop

The Lord of the Rings: Conquest

Mass Effect

Mercenaries 2: World in Flames

Mirror's Edge

MySims

Need for Speed: Undercover

NHL 09

Spore

Spore Creature Creator

The Sims 2: Apartment Life

The Sims 2 IKEA Home Stuff

The Sims 2 Mansion & Garden Stuff

EA Game Authorization Management [EA via Blues News]