Prince Of Persia Retail DVD Features No DRM Whatsoever

Ubisoft has been heavily criticized before for using Starforce and SecuROM DRM systems, but for their latest title, Prince of Persia, they decided to offer it completely free of all and any copy protection systems.

"A lot of people complain that DRM is what forces people to pirate games but as PoP PC has no DRM we'll see how truthful people actually are. Not very, I imagine," Community Manager UbiRazz wrote on the official forum.

He then noted that this applies to retail DVDs only, as Steam version will still be tied to Steam's authentication system.

Prince Of Persia will, no doubt, be pirated just like any other game. In fact, the game has already been available on p2p networks for a few days now. But will it be pirated less than other titles, or will it be just another argument for publishers when they want to defend DRM?

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Prince Of Persia Retail DVD Features No DRM Whatsoever

piracy inst just effect by drm. the better known the tittle, the more pirated it is. the more popular the genera the more pirated it is.. the worse game it is/unplayable like crysis, the more pirated it is... so as long as pop is a solid game that runs fine, it shouldn't be as pirated as some other titles, especially since by not pirating this game, and buying it, your helping to remove drm... so even a pirate should want to buy this game

Prince Of Persia Retail DVD Features No DRM Whatsoever

@ anon 7:59youre a stupid c u n t if youre going to have that aditude. All youre doing is ruining it for the rest of us.I just hope that Ubi only looks at the sales numbers, or just looks at the numbers of pirates on PoP verses the number of pirates on other DRM games. as long as they do that, this will work. I just hope they arent pulling this so that they can say "well, we tried it, and it didnt work" even though it really did.

Prince Of Persia Retail DVD Features No DRM Whatsoever

Way to go Ubisoft - I work hard for an Intel partner OEM, and I dont wan't people to steal my Hardware or Software either- The hard working people at UBI - (Specifically coders, artwork specialists / GFX designers), deserve our hard earned for making the effort to produce such quality software, and they are certainly going to recieve my hard earned wonga for this product.So much better than Rockstar's strategy of putting in a Rootkit (Securom)!

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