It gets worse for poor Flagship. They released in Korea recently to, supposedly, huge sales. Turns out those were primarily sales to internet cafes, who are required to buy a copy for each separate computer they have. However, no one actually wants to play it. So much so that many cafes are demanding refunds (due th the significant investment on their part), and it's turning into another huge clusterfuck for the company. At this rate they won't live long enough to publish Mythos.
As for SecuROM, pretty much anyone here who is any kind of PC gamer at all probably has a bit of SecuROM on their computers. Even the Steam version of BioShock has it, for some asinine reason. In BioShock's case, they neutered it into the ground because of all the bugs and complaints, to the point that all it does is sit there and notice when you install or uninstall. Still a security risk, but it doesn't fuck anything else up. Assassin's Creed recently had a crashing problem because of it attempting to contact a server every few seconds, and if it failed to do so for any reason, including packet loss, the game would lock up. The fix? Play offline.
Again, shit like this just makes people disinclined to pay good money only to get shit on for their trouble.