To be released on October 2 in Europe and November 6 in the US, Sacred 2 will be protected by SecuROM. Developer Ascaron has announced that the version of SecuROM installed with Sacred 2 will be a customer friendly version, and will come with two activations which need to be deactivated before any further installations. Once the installation process is completed, the game DVD is no longer required in the computer's CD drive. Sacred 2 allows two players in Singleplayer mode and LAN mode per copy, and one player over the Internet per copy. However, there has recently been controversy when it was found that the aforementioned version of SecuROM in this game caused some technical issues which it is claimed can only be removed via a system reformat.