August 2014
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...
September 2014
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
December 2014
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.
August 2015
I am having the same problem.
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October 2015
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
October 2015
no luck im still stuck
October 2015
how do i do this
October 2015
How can I install the patches?
November 2015
I have the same issue did any find a solution yet?